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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545% — Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …
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President Trump plans to speak at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on March 7, to be chaired by David Sacks, amid a global sell-off in cryptocurrencies — - The Trump family launched the Official Trump (TRUMP) and Melania Meme (MELANIA) coins Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Skype was an early harbinger of technology as culture, and its demise is a good lesson in how ineffective middle management can destroy good acquisitions — Microsoft is shutting down Skype. It will go offline in May 2025. … It makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China instructs its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could divulge confidential info or be detained and used as bargaining chips — Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who leads the UAE's AI fund MGX, which has backed Stargate and sources say is set to be infused with over $50B — Abu Dhabi's Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan has more than $1.5 trillion to spend and he's in a hurry; grappling with Mark Zuckerberg| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, quantum computing is struggling to reach its silicon moment, with no consensus on the best way to build qubits — Despite breakthroughs from Amazon and Microsoft, the industry is still a long way from building practical machines| The Information: |
Source: SoftBank plans to borrow $16B to invest in AI, and might borrow another $8B in early 2026, which could strain its already debt-heavy balance sheet — The biggest risk-taker in tech investing is back to his old playbook, loading up on debt to fund his latest obsession: artificial intelligence.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day Android vulnerabilities developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbian authorities to unlock phones — Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.
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Forums: r/technews, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet's X lab moonshot project Taara unveils a silicon photonic chip that can deliver high-speed internet through the air using light instead of radio waves — The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
More: X, WinBuzzer, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, and PCMag
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M+ investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust, so far — His Sensei Ag company hasn't succeeded in boosting output and nutrition in its greenhouses with AI, robotics and software
More: The Rural Blog. Bluesky: @jerryjohnson, @mgallagher, @llarian.net, and @tamarhaspel. Mastodon: @shriramk@mastodon.social
| Maggie Harrison / Futurism: |
Pinterest says it is building tools to label AI-generated or AI-altered content, amid an AI slop onslaught from SEO spammers that is making the site less useful — “Is this platform dead?” — Pinterest, the web's de facto mood board, has long been one of the best places for finding … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at Vibecoding, a term popularized by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy for a trend where AI lets nontechnical hobbyists build bespoke apps for themselves — A photo illustration shows a vertical circuit board full of dials and knobs of various designs and sizes. Fingers are turning two of them.
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