Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter. The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple made changes to comply with the DMA
EU antitrust regulators are set to close their year-long investigation into Apple's (AAPL.O) browser options on iPhones …
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate
A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate …
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU
- Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits …
Sources: the European Commission is set to find that Meta violated the DMA, hitting it with a cease and desist and a hundreds-of-millions fine, possibly $1B+
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3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse
A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …
Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models
- China firms release 10 major releases or updates in two weeks — Low-cost, open source models may undercut Valley firm profits
Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers
But it will need to change the law prohibiting fully driverless vehicles first. … Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city.
Interviews with 24+ US government workers show many embraced Signal after Trump's return to office as a tactic to shield communications, impacting transparency
The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta
In a statement today, Apple announced that it would be integrating the Apple Music catalog with a number of popular tools …
OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often
OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT …
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure over US privacy fears under Trump; two European cloud providers say it is driving interest
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. Bluesky: @hern , @orangesauce , @jukkisahonen ,...
A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major changes, like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
Chinese AI startups revamp their business models after DeepSeek's rise; sources: Zhipu eyes an IPO, 01.ai drops pretraining to sell apps with DeepSeek, and more
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Document: India orders Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601M in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs on key telecoms equipment imports
India has ordered Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601 million in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs …
Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18
Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact National Vulnerability ...
Apple says the AirPods Max will get 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio, including Personalized Spatial Audio, and ultra‑low latency in April via a software update
and who had to spend $60 on an AirFly to use it in business class — this update is overdue but welcome www.apple.com/newsroom/202... Matt Allison / @thetechlobbyist : Looking forward to all these feat...
Investors see opportunities in Malaysian tech stocks amid a shift to cheaper AI models like DeepSeek, as the country's chip sector faces US export rules
Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia :
Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial will issue stablecoin David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Trump's Crypto Venture Introduces New Digital Currency Jason Shubnell / The Block : World Liberty Fina...
23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021
Most corporations are not going to look out for your privacy. And we now have a federal government intent on using your data for bad purposes. Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi : 23andMe is declaring...
TikTok memo: Blake Chandlee, who oversaw TikTok's ad sales and marketing globally, is moving to an advisory role; TikTok faces an April 5 deadline for a US sale
A TikTok executive responsible for its core advertising business is stepping aside as part of a reorganization …
TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan
It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. — Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs …
Trump Media signs a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to launch ETFs under its Truth.Fi brand later this year, comprising digital assets and securities
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal :
eToro files for an IPO, seeking to list as ETOR on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, ~96% of which was from cryptoassets, and a $192M net income
Presentation of Financial Information — Our audited consolidated financial statements … Emily Jarvie / Proactive : eToro targets $4.5B valuation in Nasdaq IPO Nicholas Kitonyi / NFTgators : Etoro Va...
Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump to loosen AI chip export curbs set for May, known as the “AI diffusion rule”
- Nvidia and Oracle pushing for full repeal of AI diffusion rule — Companies must start complying with global restrictions May 15 X: @mackhawk X: Mackenzie Hawkins / @mackhawk : NEW: @jendeben & I wr...
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns
AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry
Move by London-based start-up to compensate those it uses to generate digital ‘avatars’ is a first for AI industry Bluesky: @theopriestley.com Bluesky: Theo / @theopriestley.com : Being paid equity is...
Sources: quantum computing startup PsiQuantum is raising at least $750M led by BlackRock at a $6B pre-money valuation
A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to security flaws; 413 orgs report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total to 270K+
this time for Cyberscoop—that examines the CVE system and how well it has weathered challenges over the past 25 years. — cyberscoop.com/cve-program-...
Sources: Onavo co-founder Roi Tiger is closing a $55M Series A led by Greenoaks for his stealth cybersecurity startup at a valuation in the hundreds of millions
Ben Bergman / Business Insider :
China published new rules on March 21 that banned the use of facial recognition without consent in private spaces like hotel rooms
a) they are stronger in most cases than the US for private firms — b) they do not constrain the government in any way [embedded post] Forums: r/privacy : China bans facial recognition in hotels, bat...
Sources: Haofei Wang, X's director of engineering, has suddenly left the company; Wang joined X in July 2023
Kylie Robison / The Verge :
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras' IPO, in limbo for months, has been delayed while Trump fills key roles and CFIUS reviews Abu Dhabi-based G42's $335M investment
A look at Apple's bad Apple TV+ strategy, including dismissing Netflix's growth, building a platform without a back-catalog, and using TV+ to boost device sales
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : See also Mediagazer
A look at lobbying efforts by AI companies since Trump's return; hundreds submitted comments after a second AI-related EO, which called for pro-growth AI policy
Cecilia Kang / New York Times :
Arcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners, bringing total funding to $42M, and expands to home goods
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : LinkedIn: Kirsten Green LinkedIn: Kirsten Green : We're investing in Arcade, which is revolutionizing product design by empowering users to create unique, personalized...
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