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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that it says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capability, but runs faster and costs less  —  OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company's o family of reasoning models.
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Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
Sources: o3-mini launch comes as DeepSeek has galvanized OpenAI staff who feel OpenAI must become more efficient or risk falling behind its newest competitor  —  It's been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.  The introduction of its open-weight model …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple canceled a project to build AR glasses that would pair with the Mac; the company is still working on successors to the Vision Pro  —  - Headset group struggles to find path forward after Vision Pro  — Canceled device would have rivaled Meta's future AR glasses
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
WhatsApp says it disrupted a campaign in which 90 journalists and other members of civil society were targeted using spyware from Israel-based Paragon  —  Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is discussing moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas or another state, following similar moves by Elon Musk  —  Potential step by social-media giant follows similar move by Elon Musk, who moved to reincorporate his companies in Texas and Nevada
Wired:
Researchers: DeepSeek's R1 failed to detect or block any of the 50 malicious prompts that were tested; Adversa: R1 is vulnerable to many jailbreaking tactics  —  Security researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek's popular new AI chatbot.  It didn't stop a single one.
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”  —  CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source software
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Apple files an emergency motion to halt the remedy trial of the DOJ vs. Google case while it appeals a court's denial of its request to intervene as a defendant  —  The company wants to play a bigger role to avoid ending its lucrative search deal.  —  The company wants to play a bigger role to avoid ending its lucrative search deal.
Austin American-Statesman:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issues a ban on the use of Chinese-backed apps DeepSeek, Lemon8, Moomoo, RedNote, Tiger Brokers, and Webull on government-issued devices  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ban on the use of Chinese-backed artificial intelligence and social media apps on government-issued devices Friday afternoon.
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
A close look at DeepSeek, which is estimated to have access to ~50K Hopper GPUs, a total server capex of ~$1.3B, and a GPU spend of $500M+ over its history  —  The DeepSeek Narrative Takes the World by Storm  —  DeepSeek took the world by storm.  For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic …
Samantha Kelly / CNET:
Apple agrees to a $20M settlement to resolve claims that some Watch batteries swelled over time, potentially damaging other key components, such as the display  —  Eligible Apple Watch owners have until April 10, 2025, to apply for a payout.  —  Owners of certain Apple Watch models …
The Information:
OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven times  —  Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders …
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys  —  - Coinbase has acquired Spindl, the onchain advertising platform founded by famous tech commentator Antonio Garcia-Martinez.
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol  —  - D3 Global is building tools for domain-based lending, fractional ownership, digital identity and other financial use cases.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit within its Microsoft AI division to help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI  —  Microsoft says that it's creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division …
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Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings  —  Tether, the crypto company behind the largest stablecoin USDT, said on Friday it generated $13 billion group-wide net profits last year in a record-breaking year.
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
CCData: the supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1B, as the launch of the TRUMP memecoin caused a wave of inflows  —  This coincided with the launch of Donald Trump's memecoin $TRUMP which caused a wave of inflows to the network  —  What to know:
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Business Insider:
In a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta was slow to respond to TikTok's rise because “we didn't think TikTok was social”  —  - Mark Zuckerberg addressed several recent policy changes in a company all-hands meeting on Thursday.
VideoCardz.com:
Nvidia updates its PC app and rolls out the new GPU drivers, bringing Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50 Series GPUs and DLSS transformer models to all RTX GPUs  —  NVIDIA DLSS4 released, Override feature now available  —  Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Source: more than 75,000 Washington Post digital subscribers have cancelled their subscriptions following Jeff Bezos' overhaul of the paper's opinion section

New York Times:
Sources: VOA's parent opened probes into VOA journalists for reporting on criticism of Trump or for comments seen as critical; Steve Herman was placed on leave

Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
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