Huawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chip

Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei is looking to take on semiconductor behemoth Nvidia with a new advanced AI chip. Huawei is making progress developing its latest Ascend AI GPU, the Ascend 910D, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar. The company has been reaching out to other Chinese firms to find test partners, the […]

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Google increased CEO Sundar Pichai’s security costs by 22% in 2024

The CEO required a number of costly security measures as he traveled in 2024

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Palantir is soaring while its tech peers are sinking. Here’s why

Tech stocks have struggled in 2025, as recession and trade war fears sap investor appetite for riskier assets. Palantir has bucked the trend.

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Temu adds ‘import charges’ after Trump tariffs

Temu is adding “import charges” of around 145% in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China, CNBC reports. The fees cost more than the products that U.S. consumers are buying, and in some cases are more than doubling the price of a standard order. For example, CNBC found that a summer […]

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The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On

A massive blackout affecting Spain, Portugal, and parts of France has been blamed on atmospheric conditions. Now engineers face the arduous task of getting the power back on.

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Spotify paid over $100 million to podcasts in the first quarter, including Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper and Theo Von

The payout includes all creators on the platform across all formats and agreements, including the biggest podcasts from Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper and Theo Von.

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Citizen Lab says exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware

The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had “deep understanding of the target community.”

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Google shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conference

News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it would share information about the latest updates coming to the Android ecosystem at an upcoming virtual event called “The Android Show: I/O Edition,” airing on May 13. The decision to […]

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Palo Alto Networks acquiring Protect AI to boost artificial intelligence tools

Palo Alto Networks said it’s acquiring Protect AI for an undisclosed sum.

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UK fintech Sprive closes $7.3M round to facilitate mortgage overpayments

Most mortgage lenders would rather people didn’t pay off their mortgages early. After all, that’s that’s how they make their money. Indeed, overpayment is positively discouraged and sometimes even penalized. What if there were a solution that solved the technology behind it, alongside the financing arrangements? That’s the idea behind the Sprive fintech app. This […]

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