At Trump’s $148 million meme coin dinner, ‘the food sucked’ and security was lax

Crypto investor and $TRUMP token holder, Nicholas Pinto, attends gala dinner for contest winners. Nicholas Pinto The price of President Donald Trump‘s meme coin plunged 16% as of Friday morning, just hours after he hosted a black-tie gala at his Virginia golf club for its biggest buyers — an elite crowd that spent a combined…

FTC drops case over Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal

Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft‘s $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard, saying on Thursday that pursuing the case against the long-closed deal was not in the public interest. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson is seeking to use the agency’s…

OpenAI CFO says AI hardware will boost ChatGPT subscriptions in ‘new era of computing’

OpenAI is betting a new “era” of computing will justify the company’s decision to spend billions of dollars on bespoke hardware to go with it, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said. The artificial intelligence startup, best known for the ChatGPT chatbot, announced plans on Wednesday to buy iPhone designer Jony Ive’s devices startup io for…

Exclusive look at the making of High NA, ASML’s new $400 million chipmaking colossus

Behind highly secured doors in a giant lab in the Netherlands, there’s a machine that’s transforming how microchips are made. ASML spent nearly a decade developing High NA, which stands for high numerical aperture. With a price tag of more than $400 million, it’s the world’s most advanced and expensive chipmaking machine.  CNBC went to…