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Bloomberg: Shares of the chipmaker SiTime closed up 19.53% on Wednesday after an iPhone 16e teardown revealed that its timer chips are used in the smartphone  —  The appearance of SiTime Corp. components in the new iPhone 16e is fueling a stock rally for the little-known chipmaker, sending the shares up as much as 17% on Wednesday.

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: SpecterOps, a cybersecurity company focused on detecting and addressing identity-based attack paths, raised a $75M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced that it has raised $75 million in new funding to support …

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: GPT-4.5 review: improved verbal intelligence, contextual adaptation, abstract writing, and better taste and aesthetics, but not ideal for reasoning or coding  —  It's happening.  —  The question is, what is the it that is happening?  An impressive progression of intelligence?

Amy Stillman / Bloomberg: Jalisco's governor says Foxconn's $900M Guadalajara plant, the largest Nvidia GB200 server assembly site, will be built in a year despite Trump's tariff threat  —  - The Taiwanese company is investing nearly $1 billion  — Lemus welcomes Chinese investment in spite of Trump's tariffs

Dong Cao / Bloomberg: Sources: Didi Autonomous Driving is seeking to raise new funding at a $5B valuation; it raised a $298M Series C led by Guangzhou Automobile in October 2024  —  - Firm in talks with investors including Beijing-based fund  — Unit operates robotaxi services in some major Chinese cities

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: CoreWeave's S-1 shows ~77% of its $1.9B revenue in 2024 came from its top two customers, one of them being Microsoft, which accounted for 62% of total sales  —  CoreWeave, a cloud-computing provider that's one of the hottest startups in artificial intelligence, filed for an initial public offering disclosing rapidly growing revenue.

Craig Barrett / Fortune: A former CEO and chair of Intel says the company shouldn't be broken up since its foundry unit now has the tech and manufacturing know-how to compete with TSMC  —  Four former Intel board members have written two opinion pieces for Fortune arguing that the only solution to Intel's problems …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Creator monetization platform Passes and its CEO, Lucy Guo, are sued for allegedly distributing CSAM; the suit claims Guo intervened to override safety measures  —  Passes, a direct-to-fan monetization platform for creators backed by $40 million in Series A funding, has been sued …

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates the iOS Gemini app, adding six new widgets for the lock screen and the Control Center, including one for its conversational mode Gemini Live  —  Following last week's homescreen redesign, the Google Gemini app on iPhone has been updated with lockscreen widgets and direct access in Control Center.

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google updates Google Play on Android to highlight apps with widgets, adding a widget search filter, widget badges on app pages, and a curated editorial page  —  There will be a new search filter for widgets, widget gadgets on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page.

Bloomberg: A deep dive into how Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Tinder, and Airbnb are being used to facilitate cross-border underage sex trafficking in Colombia  —  Better internet service, the proliferation of US apps and an influx of tourists have converged to facilitate the exploitation of minors in Colombia

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E led by Lightspeed at a $61.5B valuation; source: its annual revenue run rate has grown by 30% in 2025, from ~$1B in late 2024  —  The company is said to have increased its run-rate revenue by 30% so far this year.  —  OpenAI rival Anthropic has officially closed …

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: Docs: TikTok generated $1.7B globally in sales from TikTok Live in one 2023 quarter, with $400M+ from the US, projects Live will generate $77B globally by 2027  —  - App's financial details part of unsealed child safety lawsuit  — TikTok faces possible US ban if not sold by early April

Jordan Novet / CNBC: CoreWeave, which provides cloud-based GPUs, files for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol CRWV, says it generated $1.9B in revenue in 2024, up 737% YoY  —  CoreWeave, a provider of cloud-based Nvidia processors to companies including Meta and Microsoft, is headed for the public market.

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Source: Ramp crossed $700M in annualized revenue in January 2025, up from $300M in August 2023; its CEO says it's not profitable by choice as it reinvests  —  Fintech startup Ramp has crossed $700 million in annualized revenue as of January of this year, according to a source familiar with the company's internal operations.

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia shares fell 8.69% amid fears about tariffs and increased scrutiny of GPU shipments that may be in violation of US export controls  —  Nvidia shares fell nearly 9% on Monday after President Donald Trump confirmed that tariffs from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Tuesday.

Lois Beckett / The Guardian: Patrick Soon-Shiong says LAT opinion pieces will show an AI-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views  —  Los Angeles paper's ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner

Financial Times: DeepSeek, OpenAI, and others building smaller, powerful models quickly and cheaply using “distillation” raises questions about LLMs' first-mover advantage  —  DeepSeek used technique to create smaller powerful models based on the technology of competitors such as Meta

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024  —  The withdrawal leaves a gap in support for early-stage startups, as Africa's tech funding has been declining since 2022.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Zurich-based Unique, which offers AI agents for financial firms, raised a $30M Series A co-led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to support its US expansion  —  A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Samsung announces Galaxy A56, A36, and A26 smartphones with new AI image editing features and support for up to six years of Android OS and security upgrades  —  The new line of A-series devices has slightly larger screens and a bigger emphasis on AI image editing tools.

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: A look at China's “Fantastic Four”, the founders of DeepSeek, Unitree, ByteDance, and DJI, who are grouped together partly because they were educated in China  —  China's new generation of tech tsars were born after the country began its ‘reform and opening up’ phase

Bloomberg: Documents and interviews detail how Connor Moucka, John Binns, and Cameron Wagenius, the trio accused of hacking AT&T and other Snowflake customers, met online  —  - Live Nation and Advance Auto Parts among other hack victims  — US seeking to extradite one of the hackers from Canada

Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees  —  The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning.