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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023  —  After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down.  Microsoft, which acquired the messaging …
The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini  —  OpenAI's newest and largest model is being released as a research preview.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI was forced to stagger GPT-4.5's rollout because it is “out of GPUs”; the model is wildly expensive, costing $75 per million input tokens
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
A look at GPT-4.5's claimed performance, including on coding benchmarks, where it matches or outperforms GPT-4o but falls short of OpenAI's Deep Research
Bloomberg:
Experts say stopping North Korean thefts will require higher security spending by crypto exchanges, more stringent rules, and better government cooperation  —  - Hackers drained Ether, other tokens from “cold” crypto wallet  — Exchanges must step up spending on security, experts say
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sources: Meta plans to launch a standalone Meta AI app in Q2 and test a paid subscription service for Meta AI, as Zuckerberg tries to make Meta the leader in AI  —  Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company's standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned.
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping yet another case against an American crypto company …
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The SEC files to dismiss its 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase that accused the exchange of flouting SEC rules and facilitating trading in unregistered securities
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance Thursday evening saying it does not deem most meme coins securities under U.S. federal law.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases Copilot for Mac, including a shortcut command to open the app, in the US, UK, and Canada, and adds a split screen mode to the iPad version  —  The Copilot app on iPhone and iPad is also being improved today. … Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today.
The Verge:
AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6  —  AMD is finally ready to compete with Nvidia's new RTX 50-series GPUs. … AMD's answer to Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs is arriving next week …
Bloomberg:
Autodesk plans to cut about 1,350 employees, or ~9% of its workforce, as part of a focus on profitability following pressure from activist fund Starboard Value  —  - Actions ‘not the result of any third-party pressure,’ CEO says  — Reductions to reshape sales process and allow AI investment

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From Mediagazer

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:
Sources: the White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR, PBS, and others

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
After CBS aired two 60 Minutes segments, Trump calls on CBS to lose its license and asks FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment”

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Justin Dawes / Skift:
Cross-border payments company Flywire acquires Sertifi, which helps hotels streamline events contracting, group bookings, and related payments, for $330M
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
Documents: Tesla applied late last year for a transportation permit in California that suggests it's working to launch a ride-hailing business in the near term
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
IBM says it has completed its $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition, confirming that the US FTC quietly cleared the deal just before the UK CMA's approval on February 25

Earlier Picks

Scott Hayden / Road to VR:
Meta unveils Aria Gen 2, its latest research glasses, with a PPG sensor for measuring heart rate and a contact microphone to distinguish the wearer's voice
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more”
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors
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