The 12th edition of one of Europe’s longest-running startup events takes place on 7–8 May in Valletta. Alongside the usual pitch competition and investor matchmaking, this year’s programme includes a media panel featuring founders and editors from some of the continent’s most-read tech publications. Most startup founders know they need press coverage. Far fewer know […]

Brent Crane / Bloomberg:
How Theia, a satellite imaging startup that raised $250M+ by 2020, collapsed after the US indicted its founder and four other execs on federal fraud charges  —  Theia raised big money to launch a next-level network of digital imagery, but its legacy is mostly lawsuits, including federal fraud charges.

Wall Street Journal:
Back-to-back jury verdicts against Meta could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections  —  Social-media giants confront existential dilemma as a flood of litigation challenges their product designs

Michael Kan / PCMag:
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle ~$62M worth of export-controlled A100 and H100 Nvidia chips into China  —  The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India  —  As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work …