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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool  —  Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
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LinkedIn: Vikash Kothari and Cal Rueb
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/cursor, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a $3.5B funding round valuing it at $61.5B, up from an $18B valuation in 2024; its annualized revenue recently hit ~$1.2B
CNBC:
Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 20%+ pre-market  —  Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results …
Reuters:
Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models  —  Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand …
Arjun Sha / Beebom:
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality  —  In Short  — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out  —  Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade …
Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg:
Sources: Indonesia and Apple agree a deal to lift the iPhone 16 ban, with Apple set to invest $1B; a memorandum of agreement may be signed this week  —  - Tech giant has promised to invest $1 billion in Indonesia  — Deal would be win for Prabowo after series of policy setbacks
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Bitcoin falls below $90K, its lowest level since mid-November 2024, as the rally that followed Trump's election fades; ETH, XRP, SOL, and more also fell sharply  —  - Biggest token is now down almost 20% since Trump inauguration  — Macro factors and crypto blowups combine to erode confidence
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations  —  Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday …
NBC News:
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Italy wants to replace STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chéry for poor performance, as the Franco-Italian chipmaker struggles to navigate a slump in chip demand  —  Italy's government wants to replace Jean-Marc Chéry, the man at the helm of Franco-Italian chipmaking joint-venture STMicroelectronics NV, for poor performance.
More: MacDailyNews
Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions  —  An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation.  —  What to know: … OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000  —  And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist …
Bloomberg:
Tesla starts rolling out a software update enabling driver-assistance features, similar to Full Self-Driving in the US, for Chinese customers who paid $8,800  —  - Carmaker is pushing software update to vehicles in batches  — System requires constant supervision, frequent interventions
Brad Norton / Dexerto:
Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it “uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”, after fan speculation  —  Activision has finally admitted to using AI-generated content in its games and Call of Duty players aren't the least bit surprised.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches an updated Photoshop app for iOS, including many design, editing, and AI tools from the desktop app; an Android app is coming “later this year”  —  It's free and available on iOS first, with an Android version coming later this year.

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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction

New York Times:
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