After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April
Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers
OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
Sources: after nearly five years of building a US plant, TSMC expects new factories to take two years; TSMC plans a 3nm US plant by 2028 and a 2nm one by 2030
TAIPEI — When TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stood next to U.S. President Donald Trump early this month and announced …
Google says it plans to develop Android fully in private to streamline its development process but will continue to publish the source code for new releases
Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins VC firm Playground Global as a GP and the board of portfolio startup xLight, which develops lasers for chip manufacturing
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JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses
Researchers created the sequence using a quantum computer built by Honeywell's Quantinuum, according to a paper published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday.
Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach
Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people …
Nvidia debuts G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs locally and offers system diagnostics, setting recommendations for games, and more
Most people use their Nvidia GPUs for games, but why not both? Nvidia has a new AI you can run at the same time, having just released its experimental G-Assist AI.
Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones
Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.”
Sources: Apple is promoting Vanessa Trigub to VP of stores and retail operations globally, as it streamlines management of its retail arm under Deirdre O'Brien
Apple Inc. is naming a global head of stores, a move meant to streamline management of its retail arm under senior executive Deirdre O'Brien …
Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm
Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google's own AI—do it better.
Instacart rolls out Store View, paying shoppers to film store shelves “one aisle at a time” to assess inventory, starting with select US and Canadian retailers
Store View is supposed to help Instacart determine which products are out of stock and when they may become available.
Source: CoreWeave plans to cut its IPO from $2.7B to ~$1.5B, offering ~37.5M shares at $40 each, vs. 49M shares at $47 to $55, as market volatility hurts demand
The cloud-computing provider plans to offer investors about 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person …
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
Robinhood plans to roll out checking and savings accounts in 2025 for its paying Gold subscribers, aiming to provide more of a private banking-like experience
Now it's taking it a step further: It also wants to be your bank. — Robinhood will roll out checking and savings accounts later …
Pat Gelsinger says TSMC's pledge to invest $100B+ in US chip manufacturing will do little to restore the US' chipmaking leadership, as R&D will remain in Taiwan
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Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans
Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations.
The Trump administration cut $20M for the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, or ~10% of BIS' budget
A White House move to cut 10% of the funding for the agency responsible for semiconductor export controls risks undermining US efforts …
Source: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Lepton AI, which rents Nvidia GPU-based servers, for several hundred million dollars; Lepton raised $11M in 2023
Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Lepton AI, a two-year-old startup that rents out servers powered by Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips …
DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack
www.politico.com/news/2025/03... X: Aaron Rupar / @atrupar : Trump dismisses SignalGate: “I think it's all a witch hunt, that's all. I think it's a witch hunt.” [video] Aaron Rupar / @atrupar : Trump:...
Client notice: Chinese server maker H3C warns of potential shortages of Nvidia's H20 chips, the most advanced AI chips available in China under US export rules
Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers
Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers. Forums: r/NoShitSherlock and r/politics Forums: r/NoShitSherlock : Elon Musk pressu...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill requiring Apple's and Google's mobile app stores to verify user ages and require parental consent for minors to use some apps
and Meta, Snap, and X are thrilled Juli Clover / MacRumors : Utah Passes Child Safety Law Requiring Apple to Verify User Age Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Utah's Making App Stores Responsib...
Xiaomi's Poco unveils the £649+ F7 Ultra, with a 6.67" display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, a triple rear camera, 120W wired charging, and IP68, and the £499+ F7 Pro
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Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the startup generated revenue of $2.1B in 2024, up from $1.6B in 2023, but missed its target to be profitable by the end of 2024
Founder and CEO of digital forwarder, Ryan Petersen, says company will hit goal in 2025, paving way for potential public offering
A survey of US adults: 34% support a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023, and 49% say TikTok is a national security threat, down from 59% in May 2023
Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center :
A software update for some Amazon Kindle models lets users double-tap the sides or back of the device to turn pages in books or scroll down in Home and Library
like right now Nathan / The eBook Reader Blog : Kindle Software Update 5.18.1 Released With Unusual New Feature Andrew Liszewski / The Verge : Some Kindles now let you double-tap anywhere to turn the ...
Anthropic and Databricks ink a five-year deal, expected to jointly generate $100M in revenue, by selling AI tools to businesses developing their own AI agents
Enterprises can now use Anthropic models directly … Sid Kumar : Excited about this partnership! Claude's advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities will now be directly available within Databricks …...
xAI's Grok AI chatbot is now integrated with Telegram for Telegram Premium users, marking Grok's first big expansion beyond X
AI WARS GO CROSS-PLATFORM! Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it's getting Grok AI! What's the deal? • Free for Telegram Premium Users - Grok joins the chat at no extra cost. • ...
Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M
Mexico City-based Mendel has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively.
An EU confidential decision, now public, shows the EU pressed Meta to create a separate version of Facebook Marketplace or let users access rival services
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :
TikTok plans to launch TikTok Shop in France, Germany, and Italy on March 31, expanding its reach in Europe as TikTok's future in the US remains uncertain
Helen Reid / Reuters :
A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world
Every time I read a story about mind uploading or personality backups I think “they can't yet simulate a worm with 300 neurons; a human has 86 billion” — www.wired.com/story/openwo... X: @wired : On...
Meta VP of Asia Pacific Dan Neary is leaving for personal reasons; the Singapore-based executive joined in 2013, and Meta now has ~1.1B users in the region
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg :
A US federal judge rejects OpenAI's request to dismiss the NYT's lawsuit, allowing the main copyright infringement claims to go forward while narrowing the suit
Bobby Allyn / NPR :
Filing: Dell says it had about 108K employees as of January 31, 2025, down from 120K employees in February 2024, marking a 10% annual reduction in its workforce
Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington … Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : Dell's workforce drops 10% in fiscal 2025 Forums: r/technology : Dell's staff numbers have dr...
Q&A with Mike Clark, the chief architect of AMD's Zen microarchitecture, on x86, ARM, CPUs vs GPUs, Zen 4 to Zen 5, software developers, and more
www.computerenhance.com/p/an- intervi...
Cleo AI agrees to pay $17M to settle US FTC charges that the cash advance startup deceived customers about how much money they could obtain and how quickly
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch : X: @byron_wan . Forums: r/technology X: Byron Wan / @byron_wan : A leaked dataset of 133,000 text examples reveals how a sophisticated large language model is being desi...
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