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Apple confirms that it is delaying the “more personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out “in the coming year” — Here's a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim:
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch — Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models — Mustafa Suleyman wasn't getting the answers he wanted. — Last fall, during a video call with senior leaders at OpenAI and Microsoft …
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) to sell its investments … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding — Reflection AI is building coding agents that can function autonomously. — Two top researchers from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind …
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| Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: |
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line — Four satellite operators in talks over back-up for Kyiv if Elon Musk switches off broadband service
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Sources: Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023 — The design tech company is exploring a public offering after regulators stymied its $20 billion sale to the software giant Adobe in 2023.| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months — The maker of coding app Cursor surpassed $100 million in recurring revenue in 12 months.
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Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns — Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year — Gemini, the cryptocurrency firm backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic — Meta's Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network.| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
VCs are increasingly pouring money into “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others — Forget LLMs. Silicon Valley investors have a new favorite AI play. — Not long ago, Silicon Valley was dismissive of startups like Harvey.| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin — Trump passes executive order for bitcoin reserve based on assets forfeited to authorities — Cryptocurrency prices fell …
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