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Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch:
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR  —  Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly that it's not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI …

Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs  —  TAIPEI/HONG KONG — China's top internet companies have stockpiled billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence chips …

A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture (Ryan Broderick/Wired)

Ryan Broderick / Wired:
A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture  —  It's likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.  But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.

Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets  —  Speaking on the company's earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”.

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were "announced hastily" in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users  —  Meta's Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions …