Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn’t fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump’s 2017 tax bill (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Google agrees to pay $50M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of systemic racial bias against Black employees, covering 4,000+ employees in California and New York (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Rippling raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation, up from $13.4B during its $200M Series F in 2024; it is also conducting a $200M tender offer (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the US App Store for review (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Coinbase Derivatives, the company's CFTC-regulated derivatives arm, launches 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures trading for retail and institutional users (MK Manoylov/The Block) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
Whoop launches Whoop 5.0, its latest screenless wearable, including a medical grade version with Healthspan, showing users how they are aging physiologically (Victoria Song/The Verge) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
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How Apple’s extraordinary measures to preserve App Store commissions after the Epic v. Apple trial resulted in a contempt ruling and damaged its credibility (Tripp Mickle/New York Times) May 9, 2025 by appcompact
An Arizona man was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison after his deceased victim gave an impact statement to the court via an AI-generated video (David K. Li/NBC News) May 9, 2025 by appcompact