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March 6, 2025, 9:20 PM
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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $7.85B, vs. $7.82B est., Q2 and FY 2025 guidance below est., and plans to cut ~2,500 employees; HPE drops 20%+ after hours  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares slid 19% in extended trading on Thursday as the data center equipment maker issued quarterly …
CoinDesk:
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing  —  Between his recent social posts referring to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an interview with The New York Sun …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers  —  The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YC partner Jared Friedman says ~25% of the W25 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, not including things like code written to import libraries  —  With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that can turn complex PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files  —  On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents.  Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
US State Department officials say they launched an effort to use AI to review social media accounts of foreign students to revoke visas of “pro-Hamas” students  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $14.92B, vs. $14.61B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; AVGO jumps 8%+ after hours  —  Broadcom (AVGO.O) on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on strong demand for its custom artificial intelligence chips …
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Reddit adds new tools, including Post Insights and Rules Check, which lets users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules  —  The website will now also suggest appropriate communities for your post.  —  Reddit has announced several new tools that seem …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to passwords and other items, which then appear in its mobile app when the user is near those locations  —  You can now add a location for passwords and other items saved in 1Password. … 1Password introduced a new feature today …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time  —  You can still choose how often you see AI-assisted answers, which now incorporate results from the web.
Financial Times:
Sources: before CoreWeave's IPO, Microsoft canceled some agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 revenue
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet and Sundar Pichai as part of its investigation into alleged censorship under the Biden administration  —  The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet Inc. and its CEO Sundar Pichai as part of its ongoing investigation …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs  —  Qwen Team, which is growing Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs) …

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Paul Hiebert / Adweek:
IAB and PWC: online ad spend hit $258.6B in 2024, up 15% YoY, with 39.8% going to search, 28.7% to display, 24% to video, and $2.4B to podcasts, up 26.4% YoY

NPR:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher on the impact of Trump's proposed budget cuts; $100M of the $121M NPR receives annually goes to member stations

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In an X post, the FCC chairman suggests Comcast may be violating its licenses and accuses it of “news distortion” after MSNBC didn't air a WH press hearing

More News

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: longtime Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes is leading a shake-up of the Chips Program Office, which administers billions in semiconductor subsidies
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform

Earlier Picks

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI
Ira Alok Puranik / The Economic Times:
India's Income Tax Bill 2025 gives income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' accounts like email and social media if they suspect tax evasion
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
USCIS proposes reviewing social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils AI agents Sales Agent and Sales Chat that connect to Dynamics 365 business apps and Salesforce, available in public preview from May 2025
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers
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