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| 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 …
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| 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 — Apple is developing a “refreshed” version of its C1 modem for mass production next year that will improve power consumption and transmission speed …
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| 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 — Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
1Password adds a feature to help find a login, password, or access code by adding a specific physical location to items in a new Nearby section of the app — You can now add a location for passwords and other items saved in 1Password. … 1Password introduced a new feature today … | 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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| 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 — In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang …
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| Washington Post: |
A look at the Trump administration's strategy to transform its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation via memes, TikTok, and podcasts — The Trump administration has transformed its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation, and “they're all offense, all the time.”| 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.
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| 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 — People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
More: Federal Register, Forbes, The Economic Times, Times of India, Bloomberg Law, and Newsweek
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| Bloomberg: |
Chipmaker SiTime's shares closed up 19.53% on March 5 after TechInsights' iPhone 16e teardown revealed that Apple used SiTime's timer chips in the smartphone — The appearance of SiTime Corp. components in the new iPhone 16e is fueling a stock rally for the little-known chipmaker, sending the shares up as much as 17% on Wednesday.| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
Nansen: Trump's World Liberty Financial bought Ether worth $10M, WBTC worth $10M, and MOVE worth $1.5M ahead of the White House Crypto Summit — - World Liberty Financial has increased its cryptocurrency holdings ahead of the White House Crypto Summit — acquiring over $25 million … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce announces Agentforce 2dx, letting AI agents work proactively and autonomously across enterprise systems without chat interfaces and user prompts — Salesforce announced Agentforce 2dx today, a major update to its digital labor platform that enables autonomous AI agents … | 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 — Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.| 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 — AI data centre provider hit by blow from biggest customer ahead of the biggest tech listing this year| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations — - There also has been some confusion as to who is actually in charge of Trump administration negotiations for the deal.| 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 … | Mahmoud Itani / Macworld: |
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2, featuring a new pause/resume button for active downloads in the App Store.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: President Trump is set to meet the CEOs of HP, Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm on March 10, as new US import tariffs threaten to roil the PC hardware industry — President Donald Trump is poised to meet next week with leaders of some of the country's largest tech companies …
More: WOUB Public Media, PYMNTS.com, and South China Morning Post
| 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 — The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software. — Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick plans to revamp Biden's $42B broadband grant program to “take a tech-neutral approach”, which may benefit SpaceX's Starlink — Under new rules from President Trump's Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple's M4 MacBook Air supports two monitors of up to 6K resolution each, plus the built-in 13.6" or 15.3" display, addressing the prior M3 models' limitation — The new M4 MacBook Air fixes what's been a key problem with the line, and now supports up to two external monitors …
More: XDA Developers, How-To Geek, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, and The Verge
| Forbes: |
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search — AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that's not the case.
More: The Indian Express, WinBuzzer, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Decoder
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $548.4M, vs. $519.6M est., and for FY 2026 projects the slowest growth rate since going public in 2017; MDB drops 20%+ — MongoDB shares sank 16% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker issued disappointing guidance.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs — The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Turing, which works with engineers to contribute code to AI projects, raised a $111M Series E led by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund at a $2.2B valuation — As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged …
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