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Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC : Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led ...

6 April 2025

Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors  —  French accounting software firm Pennylane has doubled its valuation to 2 billion euros ($2.16 billion) in a new 75 million euro funding round.

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Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account  —  OpenAI is reportedly testing a new “watermark” for the Image Generation model, which is a part of the ChatGPT 4o model.  —  This is an interesting move, and it's likely because more and more users …

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Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging (Shanti Das/The Guardian)

Shanti Das / The Guardian:
Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging  —  Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts  —  Three young children huddle in front of a camera …

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Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14  —  With a historic antitrust suit looming against Meta, could the company get a reprieve from its new ally in the White House?

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Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi  —  Apple Inc., following assurances from the Trump administration, is keeping TikTok and other apps from ByteDance Ltd. on its US App Store for at least another 75 days.

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Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence  —  Now an open-source protocol and with a new long-range technology, the path forward for Z-Wave looks clearer, with a little help from Matter.

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How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.

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A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024 (New York Times)

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A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024  —  By getting its humanoids into people's homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous amounts of data that can show these robots how to handle …

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Anthropic's Alignment Science team: "legibility" or "faithfulness" of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Anthropic's Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning  —  We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) …

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Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850 (Wall Street Journal)

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Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850  —  This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone, and how Trump's China tariffs could raise the bill.

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