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Sources: Meta plans major investment in AI-powered humanoid robots, with an initial focus on household chores, and has formed a new team within Reality Labs — - Company is aiming to be the engine powering humanoid market — Ex-Cruise CEO Marc Whitten to run new group in Reality Labs| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database that anyone can edit, say two sources who found the vulnerability — The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database …
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Sources: Dell nears a $5B deal to provide servers with Nvidia's GB200 chips for xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis — - Musk's AI startup developing supercomputer project in Memphis — Dell working to win large share of xAI's Memphis build-out — Dell Technologies Inc … | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Source: xAI is canvassing potential investors, including Sequoia Capital and a16z, for a roughly $10B funding round that would value the company at about $75B — - Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Valor in talks to participate — Company last fundraised at $51 billion valuation per Pitchbook
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
In an AMA, Steve Huffman says Reddit is planning to roll out paid subreddits in 2025 and is “laying the foundation” to monetize commerce within subreddits — Huffman previously showed interest in potentially introducing a new type of subreddit with “exclusive content or private areas” that Reddit users would pay to access.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's overhaul of Siri faces engineering problems and software bugs; some features, planned for April, may have to be postponed until May or later — - Software's makeover is key to Apple Intelligence ambitions — New Siri features slated for April at risk of being postponed
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing a dislike button for comments; Instagram will not show a dislike count and dislikes may eventually count toward ranking comments — After users noticed a new button on Instagram to downvote or dislike comments, the company confirmed that it is testing a way for users …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces Project Waterworth, a subsea cable project that will span over 50,000 km and connect five continents — Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it says is a “source of concern” for some and “highly requested” by others — Mastodon, the decentralized alternative to X, is going to adopt a controversial feature from the platform formerly known as Twitter: quote posts.
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Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake in Intel's factories at the request of Trump's team; it is unclear whether Intel is open to a transaction — - TSMC would take controlling stake in potential partnership — Administration aims to boost manufacturing of advanced chips| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Sources: around 20 technologists at CFPB were fired on Thursday, gutting a team that specialized in understanding Big Tech's entrance into financial products — The terminations leave a gaping hole in the oversight of financial institutions and tech firms venturing into financial technology.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to President Trump has made employees uncertain and is part of an effort to shift antitrust scrutiny off Meta and onto Apple — Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2025 with an Instagram video that outlined his vision for what he called restoring “free expression” …
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| Tom Bristow / Politico: |
The UK recasting its AI Safety Institute as an AI Security Institute, without bias concerns, followed JD Vance's speech criticizing “hand-wringing about safety” — LONDON — The hints first came in Paris. Rumors were circulating over the two-day Artificial Intelligence Action Summit … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Ubisoft reports revenue for the nine months ending December 31, 2024, down 31.4% YoY to €990M, net booking down 34.8% to €944M, but remains optimistic about Q4 — Firm also experienced a 51.8% drop in net bookings during its third quarter — Ubisoft has released its financial results …
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Memo: Meta hires the former CEO of luxury goods marketplace The RealReal as its VP of Retail, as it seeks to boost Quest, Ray-Ban Meta, and AI wearables sales — - Company hires John Koryl as retail VP reporting to its CTO — Meta wants to improve retail experience for new AI wearables| Madeline Renbarger / Newcomer: |
The AI Action Summit in Paris was all about investment and competition as the Trump administration made even a token acknowledgment of AI safety unacceptable — Plus, Elon Musk's $97.4 billion challenge to Sam Altman — Europe Falls In Line With a US AI Vision
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest — An email sent to workers at the US Treasury Department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGE's Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after changing current requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements — The White House is seeking to renegotiate U.S. CHIPS and Science Act awards and has signaled delays to some upcoming semiconductor disbursements … | Taylor Kerns / Android Police: |
Google deactivates an Android feature that crowdsources device sensor data to provide earthquake warnings in Brazil after mistakenly sending notifications — - Android disabled earthquake alerts in Brazil after mistakenly sending notifications. — Civil Defense of São Paulo confirmed no earthquakes took place.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, saying they reject “Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition” — Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI's board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.”
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