Apple updates the Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, with up to 32 cores, including 24 performance cores, shipping from March 12
Two generations of Apple silicon, one computer. — After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio …
Apple updates the $999+ 13" and $1,199+ 15" MacBook Air with an M4, offering a 10-core CPU and an 8-core GPU, and a blue color option, shipping from March 12
Upgrades at a lower cost. I'll take it. … Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option …
Apple says not every chip generation will get an Ultra tier, after announcing the M3 Ultra, suggesting it will skip the M4 Ultra
It could explain why we're getting an M3 Ultra this deep into the M4 rollout. — Apple's first Mac Studio refresh in nearly two years is a welcome update …
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
Apple debuts the M3 Ultra, built from two 3nm M3 Max chips, with Thunderbolt 5, an UltraFusion packaging architecture, an 80-core GPU, and up to 512GB of memory
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. … Apple has a new powerhouse computer ready to go.
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg from Money Group for an undisclosed sum, to focus on “connection and humanity” online
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS and Science Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason”
President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
YouTube debuts a $7.99/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering ad-free videos like gaming and news, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia
Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new …
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: 16GB of VRAM, FSR 4, and lower power draw than prior Radeon cards, but no AMD reference design and they are bulky cards
Nvidia's dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market …
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian : The LA Times' AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump Shelly Palmer : The LA...
Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe deployment of AI, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice”
Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December 2024 over fraud complaints
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
A US judge denies Elon Musk's attempt to halt OpenAI's for-profit shift, as he failed to meet the burden of proof, but lets other aspects of the lawsuit proceed
A federal judge in California denied Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity, according to a filing on Tuesday.
Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the startup without taking enforcement action and that “NFTs are not securities”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club …
YouTube says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium now have 125M+ subscribers globally, including trials, after passing 100M subscribers in February 2024
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide :
Nintendo wins a final victory over French file sharing company Dstorage, which means European file sharing services must now remove illegal copies of its games
File-sharing site beaten after long-running battle. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
Source: OpenAI told some investors about plans for new agents: $2,000/month for knowledge work, a $10K/month for coding, and $20K/month for PhD-level research
OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue.
Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more
This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following …
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group Silk Typhoon was targeting remote management tools and cloud apps in the US and abroad in late 2024
- ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach — Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations
Taiwan's government says it will assist with TSMC's $100B investment in the US, but will also do “gatekeeping” to keep the most advanced tech in Taiwan
Trump-Zelenskyy clash crystallises fears about whether a more volatile White House will back Taipei
After Qualcomm unveiled its X85 modem, CEO Cristiano Amon says it creates a “huge delta” in performance over Apple and is “the first modem that has so much AI”
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC its latest modem will create a big distance in performance versus Apple …
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says “Microsoft did acquire material influence”
- The 2023 deal did not result in change of control over OpenAI — CMA's decision comes after 14 months of scrutiny of the tie-up
CoreWeave acquires Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, sources say for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023
CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies developing artificial intelligence, is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases …
Meta brings its anti-scam facial recognition test to the UK “after engaging with regulators”, letting celebrities opt-in “to receive the celeb-bait protection”
Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition with an international test of two new tools …
Human Security: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet
New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems … Bluesky: @couts and @lhn . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : N...
The US DOD awards Scale AI a prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal
Scale AI on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with the Department of Defense that could be a turning point …
Indian SaaS hiring platform Darwinbox raised $140M co-led by KKR and Partners Group, taking its total funding to $270M; the startup had a $1B+ valuation in 2022
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns
Bloomberg :
Arm agrees to provide chip designs and tech to Malaysia for $250M over the next ten years, as the government targets semiconductor exports of $270B by 2030
Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg :
Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual suggestions
Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority :
Sources: the US Commerce Department plans changes to Biden's $42.5B broadband grant to let states award more funds to satellite internet providers like Starlink
like e-911 calls. Michael Derby / @michaelsderby : Government now looking to divert more cash to Musk's Starlink internet service, as the Trump ally continues to self police his many conflicts of inte...
Sea reports Q4 revenue up 37% YoY to ~$4.95B, above est., and forecasts 2025 GMV to rise ~20% to ~$120.6B at online retail arm Shopee, above $116.6B est.
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
Inside the Tether vs. Circle rivalry; sources: Circle executives regularly met US Treasury officials and others in 2024 to flag Tether's national security risks
Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @karaswisher . Forums: Hacker News Bluesky: Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Not sure I would bet against Circle here: www.wsj.com/finance/curr... Forums: ...
Daily trading volume for graduated Pump.fun tokens fell 94% from January 2025 peaks of $3B to ~$170M, as the memecoin mania cools following rug pulls and more
The Block :
Netherlands-based QuantWare, which offers its VIO chip architecture to help solve scaling bottlenecks in quantum processors, raised a €20M Series A
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
An analysis by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton of 8,000+ messages finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India
Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World : X: @nikita1712 . Forums: r/india X: Nikita Saxena / @nikita1712 : Read this cracker of a story by @yashjournals that builds on research by @diwilab, shared exclusivel...
Internal email: Amazon forms a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman
Good morning. I'm delighted to announce the first wave … Arundhati Sarkar / Seeking Alpha : Amazon's AWS reportedly forms new team focused on agentic AI Theo Wayt / The Information : Amazon Web Servi...
London-based Quantexa, which develops anti-money laundering tech, raised a $175M Series F at a $2.6B valuation, as it expands its AI data curation business
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
NYC-based Odeko, which sells smart operations software to independent coffee shops and cafes, raised a $126M Series E, including $96M in equity and $30M in debt
Richard Collings / Axios :
Cybereason CEO Eric Gan resigns after a months-long feud with investors SoftBank and Steven Mnuchin; a source says the planned Trustwave merger is also canceled
Bloomberg :
The demand for software engineers in Japan's car industry, facing a shortage of 33,000 software engineers in 2025, intensifies amid the EV and self-driving push
Nikkei Asia :
Sources: Flock Safety, a leading maker of license plate-reading cameras, is set to raise about $250M led by Andreessen Horowitz at a ~$7.5B valuation
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.