Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party firms for selling software to SMBs; in-house sellers will get more training and focus on AI products (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B (Financial Times) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2, for research aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory (Hayden Field/CNBC) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Docs: Scale AI had revenue of $870M in 2024, missing its $1B target, and plans a $150M share sale that values the startup at around $25B, up 80% from a year ago (The Information) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
The US SEC Chairman says the agency has ample authority to oversee digital assets as Congress debates if SEC or the CFTC should be the primary crypto regulator (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Microsoft makes Recall available to all Copilot+ PCs, along with a new AI-powered Windows search and Click to Do, which works like Google's Circle to Search (Tom Warren/The Verge) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Sources: China has quietly exempted from tariffs at least eight classifications of US-made microchips, as it seeks to exempt "irreplaceable" goods (Washington Post) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Internal presentation by Microsoft's CFO Amy Hood: number of users for Copilot has been flat over the past year with ~20M weekly users, as ChatGPT grew to 400M (Newcomer) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
Swiss National Bank says cryptocurrencies failed to meet its currency reserve standards, as a referendum campaign seeks to require SNB to hold bitcoin reserves (John Revill/Reuters) April 25, 2025 by appcompact
CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) April 25, 2025 by appcompact