Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens  —  Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase.  —  Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune

Synology is preparing to roll out new restrictions on third-party hard drives in its future network attached storage (NAS) devices later this year, the company confirmed to Ars Technica. The changes could make it much harder to use third-party drives in Synology’s devices for typical use cases, like backing up household computers or as local […]

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave  —  Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn't making things up or delivering unsafe results …

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China  —  The Ascend 920 supposedly offers a performance comparable to the Nvidia H20. … Just one day after this, Huawei announced the Ascend 920 …

More protests against President Donald Trump are taking place today as part of “A National Day of Action” largely spearheaded by the decentralized 50501 movement. Events are scheduled in all 50 states, two weeks after millions of people attended more than 1,300 “Hands Off!” protests across the US and the world. This time, over 700 […]