DraftKings, Meta, Andreessen Horowitz spend millions on state elections

A wallet onchain linked to venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) by Lookonchain has quietly accumulated 2.11 million HYPE tokens worth approximately $90.87 million since April 14. Smart Money Bets on Hyperliquid Dip Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged that wallet 0xb5E4, whose funding history and transaction patterns have led multiple analysts to associate it with […]

The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.

The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a career in the Army’s Special Operations Command, says his fundamental…

AI research in 2025 was defined by major shifts. The industry moved beyond chatbots and into reasoning systems, autonomous agent and multimodal systems. Last year, companies like Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, and NVIDIA pushed AI research into new territory with papers focused on reasoning, coding agents, reinforcement learning, and scalable safety systems. Here […] The post Top 10 AI Research Papers of 2025 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Graphon AI emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding to build a new class of AI infrastructure: a pre-model intelligence layer that captures how data connects — making foundation models more accurate and capable of reasoning over unlimited multimodal data. The round was led by Arvind Gupta of Novera Ventures, with participation from […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Stitch, the operating system built for modern financial institutions, announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The investment marks a16z’s first in the GCC and brings Stitch’s total funding to $35 million. In addition to a16z, existing investors Arbor Ventures, COTU Ventures, Raed Ventures, […]

The post Iran Demands Payment from Tech Giants for Strait of Hormuz Internet Cables appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TLDR Tehran is developing an official framework to regulate and monetize maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz Access will be restricted to vessels aligned with Iranian interests; ships connected to Washington’s “Project Freedom” will be denied passage Major technology corporations including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon face potential charges for subsea cable infrastructure traversing the waterway Iranian government-affiliated outlets have suggested possible interference with cable systems if payment demands are ignored Earlier reports indicated Tehran might accept cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, for transit fees Tehran is positioning itself to capitalize financially on its strategic hold over the Strait of Hormuz, rolling out initiatives to extract fees from both maritime traffic and international technology corporations for passage through this

The post Tech Giants React to Canada’s Proposed Bill C-22, Threaten Exit appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Apple, Meta, and Signal have pushed back at Canada’s proposed “lawful access” bill. The tech giants have threatened to leave the region if Canada passes Bill C-22. Bill C-22 proposes increased surveillance from electronic service providers in Canada. Tech giants in Canada are pushing against the proposed “Lawful Access” Bill C-22, which aims to modernize investigative tools for police and intelligence agencies (CSIS). Submitted in March 2026, the bill seeks to compel technology, telecommunications, and internet service providers to simplify granting law enforcement access to user data. Tech Giants Push Back at Bill C-22 The controversial bill has triggered reactions from multiple tech companies, including Signal, Apple, and Meta, all of whom claim it would make Canadians less safe. They believe the bill will give the government unlimited access to the private activities of Cana