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A US judge denies Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's for-profit shift, saying he failed to meet the burden of proof, but allows other aspects of the suit to proceed — A federal judge in California denied Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity, according to a filing on Tuesday.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December over fraud allegations — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
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Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/JoeRogan, and r/economicCollapse
| Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast: |
The Los Angeles Times removes its AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut — An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
More: The Wrap, Pivot to AI, SFGATE, and Futurism
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the voice assistant — In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to access users' encrypted data, even of non-UK users — iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $599+ 11-inch and $799+ 13-inch iPad Air with M3, in four colors, and debuts a $269+ Magic Keyboard with function keys and a larger trackpad — Only a year after the last Air, Apple is updating the middle of its tablet lineup once again. … The iPad Air is a tricky tablet.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal email: Amazon has formed a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason” — President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
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| Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the company without taking enforcement action, adding “NFTs are not securities” — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns — Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump's Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features — There are new features for Android and Pixel phones, including live location sharing in the Find My app.
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| The Information: |
CoreWeave acquires Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, sources say for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023 — CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies developing artificial intelligence, is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases …
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| Financial Times: |
Taiwan's government says it will assist with TSMC's $100B investment in the US, but also do “gatekeeping” to keep the most advanced tech in Taiwan — Trump-Zelenskyy clash crystallises fears about whether a more volatile White House will back Taipei
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Netherlands-based QuantWare, which offers its VIO chip architecture to help solve scaling bottlenecks in quantum processors, raised a €20M Series A — Big Tech companies aren't sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow.
More: eeNews Europe, Forbes, QuantWare, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, TNW, Silicon Canals, The Quantum Insider, and Tech Funding News
| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual suggestions — Google might finally be realizing its vision of truly smart contextual assistant. — • — •
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Forums: r/Android, r/Bard, r/GooglePixel, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Cybereason CEO Eric Gan resigns after a months-long feud with investors SoftBank and Steven Mnuchin; a source says the planned Trustwave merger is also canceled — - Eric Gan is embroiled in a dispute with SoftBank, Mnuchin — The startup is currently engaged in fundraising discussions| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the Tether vs. Circle rivalry; sources: Circle executives regularly met US Treasury officials and others in 2024 to flag Tether's national security risks — Trump's call to bring crypto into the mainstream has raised the stakes in a kill-or-be-killed battle between … | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US Commerce Dept. plans changes to Biden's $42.5B broadband grant program, to let states award more funds to satellite-internet providers like Starlink — Agency plans changes that will make Elon Musk's satellite-internet service eligible for more rural broadband funding
More: Fierce Network and Benzinga
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| Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World: |
An analysis of over 8K messages by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India — An analysis of more than 8,000 messages by Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University finds the Meta-owned platform is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace.Sponsor Posts
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