Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display
Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors
After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users …
NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin
Trump passes executive order for bitcoin reserve based on assets forfeited to authorities — Cryptocurrency prices fell …
Analysis: the $TRUMP memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns
Donald Trump's crypto project made at least $350mn from the launch of his memecoin, a windfall that is likely to fuel concerns …
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed
From Ben Lovejoy's “Here's why the C1 chip doesn't have mmWave 5G” posted Thursday by 9to5Mac. Aleksandar Anastasov / PhoneArena : Apple's iPhone 16e C1 modem is missing mmWave 5G—analyst explains why...
Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models
Mustafa Suleyman wasn't getting the answers he wanted. — Last fall, during a video call with senior leaders at OpenAI and Microsoft …
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing
where Luigi Mangione is also being held Bluesky: Dotto / @idott : I can haz pardon? Bernie Michalik / @berniemichalik.ca : I think I'm going to have to start a website called: isSBFstillLockddUp.fyi [...
Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes an OpenAI post on safety and alignment, saying it “rewrites the history of GPT-2 in a concerning way”
A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for …
Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns
Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s... Katie Kirchner / @katie-kirchner : That someone can “appear” to be something and face the state violence of deportation is both so incredibly infuriating, and yet, so dee...
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $7.85B, vs. $7.82B est., Q2 and FY 2025 guidance below est., and plans to cut ~2,500 staff over 18 months; HPE drops 15%+
these factors are affecting its outlook Moneycontrol : HP to lay off 2500 employees to cut cost Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : HPE To Axe 2,500 Employees, As Outlook Disappoints TechRadar : HPE set to cut ...
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $14.92B, vs. $14.61B est., net income up 315% YoY to $5.5B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AVGO jumps 5%+
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters :
Source: Microsoft is testing out ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek
Aaron Holmes / The Information :
Sam Altman's World Network unveils World Chat, a “mini app” in the World App wallet for messaging and sending and receiving crypto, in beta on Android and iOS
The new feature, a “mini app” accessible via the World App wallet, will offer special features to holders …
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding
Reflection AI is building coding agents that can function autonomously. — Two top researchers from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind …
Sources: Meta plans to include improved voice features in Llama 4, expected in weeks, betting that future AI agents will be conversational rather than text-led
Social media giant is introducing improved features as it bets on the technology driving the growth of so-called AI agents
Reddit adds tools like Post Insights, Post Recovery, and Post Check, which helps users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers
But declined to provide more details. — techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/r... Mastodon: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social : NEW: Russian crypto exchange Garantex has been seized by the U.S. S...
An in-depth look at TSMC's $165B US investment plans: three new Fab 21 phases, two new advanced packaging facilities, and an R&D center, all based in Phoenix
Timing, locations, and technologies not disclosed. — On Monday, TSMC announced plans to invest $100 billion in expanding its U.S. manufacturing capacity.
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to items like passwords, which then show up in its mobile app's Nearby section when the user is close
For example, the feature will let users know a door's entry code when they get close to their workplace. — blog.1password.com/add-location... [image] Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : This is genius. ...
VCs are increasingly pouring money into “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others
Forget LLMs. Silicon Valley investors have a new favorite AI play. — Not long ago, Silicon Valley was dismissive of startups like Harvey. X: @alex X: @alex : bundling/unbundling
CoreWeave denies an FT report that Microsoft withdrew from some of their agreements ahead of CoreWeave's IPO, saying “there have been no contract cancellations”
Angela Christy / Reuters :
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training
It's available via their API, or it's “available to self-host on a selective basis” … Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Mistral launches OCR tool for fast document processing Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Mist...
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet and Sundar Pichai as part of its investigation into alleged censorship under the Biden administration
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg :
A look at McDonald's new tech initiatives, including the use of edge computing to predict equipment breakdowns and computer vision to ensure order accuracy
Wall Street Journal :
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
Introduction QwQ is the reasoning model of the Qwen series. Paul Barker / InfoWorld : Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks's R-1, OpenAI's o1 Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Alibaba's Latest A...
DoubleZero, which coordinates a global fiber optic cable network to boost blockchain performance, raised $28M in a token round, sources say at a $400M valuation
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
Sources: Larry Page has formed Dynatomics, which is trying to use LLMs to create highly optimized designs for various objects and then have a factory build them
I was just thinking we need another high profile AI startup given all the progress — lol — the sector is making! [embedded post] Alex Heath / @alexeheath.com : Page stepped away from being CEO awhile ...
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time
Making AI private, useful and optional is surprisingly hard to do, but we've sweat the details to really make it so. … Forums: r/technews : DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool — but will still ...
Source: the US Department of Labor is actively investigating Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a doc says since at least August 2024
The startup's former managing director Michael Kratsios is set to be confirmed as a top tech advisor to President Trump. — techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/s... via @techcrunch.com
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