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How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed before US restrictions forced new ownership and a pivot (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
on March 25, 2026 at 10:20
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed before US restrictions forced new ownership and a pivot — Sandvine built a business offering network management tools that, in the wrong hands, could be used for censorship, until the US government intervened.
US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days (Wired)
on March 25, 2026 at 10:05
Wired: US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days — The crowdsourced website and app Mahsa Alert provides citizens in Iran with crucial information amid the country's ongoing war …
OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations, reporting to CSO Jason Kwon (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
on March 25, 2026 at 09:40
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations, reporting to CSO Jason Kwon — OpenAI is tapping Kiran Mani, the chief executive officer of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations.
EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers (Bloomberg)
on March 25, 2026 at 08:45
Bloomberg: EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers — European technology companies with a combined value of €1.2 trillion ($1.4 trillion) have debuted on overseas exchanges …
Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)
on March 25, 2026 at 08:00
Alex Heath / Sources: Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment” — It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.