- Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
- Germany says it found evidence that Russian state-backed hacker Fancy Bear was behind a cyberattack in 2023 that took down several German government websites (Lisa O'Carroll/The Guardian)
- A committee of UK legislators says the government's reticence to address alleged copyright theft is a "de facto endorsement" of the way tech firms build LLMs (Lindsay Clark/The Register)
- Estonian ride-hailing and scooter rentals startup Bolt Technology secures a €220M credit facility which it believes will help prepare the company for an IPO (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Filing: Google pushes back on Epic's demands following its antitrust win, says the proposed remedies are "unnecessary" and "far beyond the scope" of the verdict (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: cloud security startup Wiz will not acquire competitor Lacework; the deal, which was valued at $150M-$200M, fell through during due diligence process (Meir Orbach/CTech)
- A look at four Chinese generative AI startups, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai, which have been valued between $1.2B and $2.5B in the past three months (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
- Tim Cook says half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units (Wesley Hilliard/AppleInsider)
- Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)
- Japan's PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up (Associated Press)
- Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)
- Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison (Michael Kan/PCMag)
- Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials (Bloomberg)
- X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting "bad content" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)