Matt Sledge / The Intercept: Trump pardoned BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading, which had pleaded guilty and was fined $100M for money laundering, possibly the first US pardon of a corporation  —  In what may be an American first, President Donald Trump pardoned a company sentenced to $100 million in fines for breaking money laundering laws. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more  —  Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: FDUSD stablecoin depegs 9% after Justin Sun raises concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust’s solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD  —  – Justin Sun is warning users to pull funds from First Digital Trust, a Hong Kong-based firm once employed by TrueUSD’s owner Techteryx as a fiduciary. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Nintendo says Switch 2 preorder buyers will need 50+ hours of original Switch gameplay, an anti-scalper mechanism  —  You can purchase a Switch 2 directly from Nintendo, but only if you have at least 50 hours of gameplay on the original console. … If you want to preorder a Switch directly from Nintendo … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A profile of Larry Ellison, now 80 years old with a $175B fortune, as Oracle bids for TikTok US and he puts up most of his son David’s $8B bid to buy Paramount  —  For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to have a good time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok, but various parties involved do not appear to be taking it seriously, ahead of the April 5 deadline  —  The e-commerce giant put in a last-minute offer for the popular video app, according to three people familiar with the talks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer AI apps, including Gemini, with Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw NotebookLM’s launch  —  THE SCOOP  —  Google is replacing the leader of its consumer AI apps as the focus of the AI race shifts from the underlying models … Lees verder op Tech Meme