Trump renames Defence Department to ‘Department of War’ – Is it legal?
The White House will install the Department of War as a “secondary name” to get around Trump’s inability to actually rename the agency.
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Elon Musk threatened to quit Tesla before $1 trillion compensation deal
To receive the maximum compensation, Musk would be required to boost Tesla’s market cap from $1 trillion today to $8.5 trillion in the next 10 years.
Atlassian enters the browser race with $1 billion AI acquisition
Atlassian has struck a $937 million deal to acquire The Browser Company, the New York startup behind Arc and Dia, in a move that marks one of the biggest acquisitions in the company’s history.
Trump will host tech billionaires Bill Gates, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg at rose garden event tonight
Elon Musk is not on the guest list released by the White House.
Airwallex acquires California startup to take on Stripe
Australian-founded Decacorn Airwallex has acquired San Francisco-based billing startup OpenPay to expand beyond payments into subscription management.
This Singapore gaming billionaire is betting AI will upend the entire industry
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.
Google shares hit record high after judge doesn’t order it to be broken up
The ruling also boosted Apple’s shares, as Google will be allowed to continue paying the iPhone maker billions every year to remain the default search engine on its devices.
Google allowed to keep Chrome but must share search data with competitors
Federal prosecutors pushed a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser after the company was ruled as a monopolist in court last year.
How an AI notetaker became one of the few profitable AI startups
Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.
Amazon earmarks $4.4 billion for New Zealand data centre push
Amazon has been stepping up investments across the Asia Pacific, with plans to invest over $50 billion to scale up its digital infrastructure in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.