Month: February 2025

Plaid working with Goldman Sachs on raising $300M to $400M in tender offer Plaid, a company that connects bank accounts to financial applications, is working with Goldman Sachs on a deal to allow early-stage investors and employees to sell existing shares, which will raise between $300 million and $400 million,

These are the investors funding Musk’s $97 billion OpenAI takeover attempt As if Elon Musk doesn’t have enough going on, a consortium of investors led by him announced plans Monday for what appears to be a hostile takeover of OpenAI. The investor group offered nearly $97.4 billion to buy all

Klarna CEO touts crypto ambitions ahead of IPO Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/klarna-crypto-ipo-ceo-price-valuation-fintech/

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and

DeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such as plans for a bioweapon attack and a campaign to promote self-harm among teens,

Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro 2 on February 11 Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro headphones as early as February 11, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The announcement is likely to be on the smaller side, given that the company has

Sony says PlayStation Plus members will get five-day extension after outage After the PlayStation Network experienced a global outage that lasted for nearly a day, Sony says it will compensate PlayStation Plus subscribers by giving them an extra five days of service. The outage seems to have lasted from Friday

Here are five startups that are running Super Bowl ads this year Super Bowl weekend is here with the Philadelphia Eagles set to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Sunday evening. While many folks tune in to the Super Bowl for the actual football, others do

How to choose a country for IT business operations — guest column Sergiy Barbashyn, lawyer and owner of Barbashyn Law Firm, explains what to expect when setting up a business abroad and which countries IT companies can consider in 2025 in an exclusive column for AIN. Powered by WPeMatico https://en.ain.ua/2025/02/07/how-to-choose-a-country-for-it-business-operations/

Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed