It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators
It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators

In the days since this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, but the way they’re spreading […]

James Comey indicted over Instagram seashell photo that allegedly threatened Trump
James Comey indicted over Instagram seashell photo that allegedly threatened Trump

The US Department of Justice has once again indicted James Comey – this time, for an alleged threat the former FBI director made toward President Donald Trump on Instagram, as reported earlier by CNN. In its indictment, filed in a North Carolina federal court on Tuesday, the DOJ cites the now-deleted image Comey posted to […]

Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block
Meta prepares to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition after China’s block

Meta is preparing to unwind its approximately $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup Manus after China’s National Development and Reform Commission formally ordered the deal’s cancellation on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing p…

Meta’s latest outrageous deal is getting solar power beamed even at night from satellites

Meta has agreed to source power from a fleet of 1,000 space-based satellites, which will collect sunlight in geosynchronous orbit and beam it as infrared light to solar farms on the ground.

China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe

China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents.

Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres
Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres

Overview’s satellites will collect sunlight continuously in geosynchronous orbit and beam it as near-infrared light to existing ground solar installations, which convert it to electricity. The approach extends solar farm output through the night withou…

China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus
China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus

The NDRC’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China sinc…

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget
Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget

Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-int…

Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.
Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.

Summary: Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs (10% of staff) and cancelling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, while Microsoft launched its fi…