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A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-30 Startup Drone Walmart

A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted Sam Altman with help from Mira Murati, who provided examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-30

Adalytics: DoubleVerify, IAS, and Human Security, paid by advertisers to detect bots, regularly miss such traffic; DoubleVerify missed 21% of bot visits (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-29

Sources: OpenAI is finalizing a $40B round led by SoftBank, receiving $10B initially and another $30B by 2025's end if it restructures into a for-profit company (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-29

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the company generated revenue of $2.1B in 2024, up from $1.6B in 2023 but missed its target to be profitable by the end of 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-28

Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-27 Google AI

Anthropic and Databricks ink a five-year deal, expected to jointly generate $100M in revenue, by selling AI tools to businesses developing their own AI agents (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-27 AI

Mercury, which helps startups manage their finances, raised $300M led by Sequoia at a $3.5B valuation; the fintech saw $2B in deposits after SVB's collapse (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-27 Fintech Startup

Trump Media signs a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to launch ETFs under its Truth.Fi brand later this year, comprising digital assets and securities (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-25 Trump ETF Asset

A profile of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, who is set to go on trial for conspiracy to commit money laundering; Storm says most users were legitimate (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-25 Conspiracy

Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with a 13% stake, is set to turn its $245M investment into $4.3B from Wiz's pending sale to Alphabet for $32B (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-22 Alphabet

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q4 revenue up 20% to $12.21B, vs. $12.1B est., net profit up 180% YoY to $858M, even as it faces stiff competition (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-21 China 4Q

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing a $1.5B deal to acquire NinjaTrader, a US retail futures trading platform; the deal could be announced on March 20 (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-20 Retail

Sources: activist investor Starboard Value plans to nominate a minority slate of director candidates at Autodesk ahead of the company's coming annual meeting (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-19

Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel was Keith O'Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-19

Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-18 Startup Alphabet

A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-17 Microsoft Quantum

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-17 AI

Etsy and eBay are starting to embrace tactics popularized by social media platforms, such as algorithm-based personalization, as a way to stay relevant (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-16 Algorithm eBay

Foxconn says revenue from cloud and networking, including AI servers, made up 26% of its Q4 revenue and will almost catch up with consumer electronics in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-15 AI 4Q

Streamers court YouTubers for new shows or spinoffs; sources: Amazon made $100M+ in profit on Beast Games and Netflix held talks with Dude Perfect for a series (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-15 Amazon Netflix

Sources: Elon Musk visited the NSA and discussed staff reductions and operations with its leadership, a week after saying the agency needs an overhaul (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-14 Elon Musk

A profile of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, an early investor in SMIC who has extensive ties to China and gained fame by helping turn around Cadence Design Systems (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-14 China Intel

Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-14 Trump

D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-13 Quantum

Food delivery startup Wonder acquires the media company Tastemade, sources say for around $90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app” (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-13 Startup

Seagate and other HDD makers bet on tech like heat-assisted magnetic recording to stay competitive; IDC expects data center HDD spending to hit $22B by 2028 (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-11

Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told associates he isn't in a hurry to get investment, including from government entities, fearing outside influence (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-11

Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-10 AI

Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reasoning LLM, trained in four weeks with support from Nvidia via its Taiwan-based supercomputer and consulting (www.wsj.com)
2025-3-10 Taiwan Nvidia

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