Smashing, the reading curation app by Goodreads’ founder, shuts down

Smashing, an AI-powered app that lets users build a curated list of news and posts, is shutting down, because of its inability to scale rapidly enough.

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TSMC first-quarter profit tops estimates, rising 60%, but Trump trade policy threatens growth

TSMC beat profit expectations for the first quarter, thanks to a continued surge in demand for AI chips.

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xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past conversations. Now, if you ask Grok for recommendations, it’ll give more personalized responses — assuming you’ve […]

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Zoom restores service after an hours-long outage

Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X at around 2 p.m. Pacific. The trouble began around 11:40 a.m., according to The Verge, […]

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Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel, and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation

Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, has closed a $75 million funding round at a valuation of $1.5 billion led by private equity and venture firm Stripes. The startup helps seniors choose Medicare health plans analyzing doctors, hospitals, and prescription drug coverage. Unlike many other Medicare insurance brokers, […]

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Nvidia says it follows export laws ‘to the letter’ a day after AI chip sales to China stopped

Nvidia said in a statement that its exports help alleviate the U.S. trade deficit.

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Former cybersecurity agency chief Chris Krebs leaves SentinelOne after Trump targets him in executive order

A week after President Trump specifically targeted Chris Krebs in an executive order, the former head of CISA has left SentinelOne.

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NVIDIA’s Vision For AI Factories – ‘Major Trend in the Data Center World’

During a keynote at Data Center World 2025, a NVIDIA exec spoke about AI factories, purpose-built for gigawatt-scale data centers.

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Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban

The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The restrictions are part of the Trump administration’s effort to compete with China on AI. Months after […]

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Rippling wants UK fintech Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged “spy”

Another highly-valued startup has just been added to the mix in the ongoing legal drama between Rippling and Deel: U.K. fintech giant Revolut. In his blockbuster affidavit that reads like it’s straight out of a movie, Irish Rippling employee Keith O’Brien claimed that he was paid about $6,000 a month to spy on Rippling. He […]

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