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Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China  —  Shan Xiangshuang's $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor.  That has triggered official concern

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ's case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups  —  Just east of Princeton University in central New Jersey lies Lake Carnegie, a three-mile stretch of glistening …

The Hacker News: Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024  —  Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support  —  WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …

Anniek Bao / CNBC: SK Hynix starts mass producing its new 12-layer HBM3E chips with 36GB per chip capacity, up 50% from its previous gen, slated for delivery by the end of 2024  —  SK Hynix shares surged more than 9% Thursday morning after the company said it has started mass production of a new version …

Surbhi Misra / Reuters: Blackstone confirms a £10B investment for an AI data center in northeast England; UK PM Keir Starmer says the construction will create 4,000 jobs in 2025  —  U.S. private equity firm Blackstone (BX.N) has confirmed a 10 billion pound ($13.3 billion) investment for an artificial intelligence data centre …

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse  —  Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading …

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: a demo of Sora initially took 10+ minutes to make a 1-minute clip; source: OpenAI execs spoke of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips  —  Between OpenAI's long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora …

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch  —  PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) announced on Wednesday it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more  —  OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools  —  During its developer keynote at the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, the company pitched its Quest mixed reality platform to developers as the next big app store.