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In its first post-IPO earnings, Raspberry Pi reports FY 2024 revenue down 2% YoY to $259.5M, pre-tax profit down 57% YoY to $16.3M, and 1.9M Pi 5 units sold (Financial Times)
Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group says 36+ Indian tech startups like Flipkart and PhonePe with a combined $100B valuation are set to go public by 2027 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers (Wikimedia)
Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
Researchers detail a new AI-powered Probability of Fire model, which they say could outperform the conventional danger forecasts used by wildfire trackers (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
UMC, Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker, opened a $5B plant in Singapore featuring 22nm and 28nm manufacturing technology; mass production won't start until 2026 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Qualcomm says it is weighing an acquisition offer for Alphawave, which has a ~$1.3B market cap and makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
Sources: Arm decided not to pursue a deal after recently seeking to acquire Alphawave, a UK-listed supplier of semiconductor IP that is exploring a sale (Reuters)
Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume has dropped 70% YoY to $5.34M (Adrian Zmudzinski/Cointelegraph)
In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Chef Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic meal assembly systems, raised a $20.6M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and an additional $22.5M in debt (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
Sources: AI coding startup Replit is in talks with investors to raise about $200M at a $3B valuation, almost triple its last valuation (Bloomberg)
Google researchers say DPRK's IT workers are fraudulently securing positions at companies in Germany, Portugal, and the UK, after facing sanctions in the US (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Microsoft says it used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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