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Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware:
Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive  —  Apple's new Mac Studio doesn't look different on the outside, but there are plenty of performance upgrades under the hood
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen  —  No surprises, but a lower $999 entry-level price is welcome.  —  At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with a consistent design and simpler navigation  —  Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone …
Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:
Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more  —  The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD/Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts  —  Sony's advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games.
Columbia Journalism Review:
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly  —  We Compared Eight AI Search Engines.  They're All Bad at Citing News.  —  AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity …
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B, its largest-ever acquisition, in a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025  —  ServiceNow (NOW.N) said on Monday it would buy AI firm Moveworks for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, marking the software maker's …
Echo Wang / Reuters:
CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI and will issue shares worth $350M to OpenAI through a private placement at the time of CoreWeave's IPO  —  CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion …
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024  —  - Kleiner Perkins is said to be leading the funding round  — The deal would triple Chainguard's valuation to $3.5 billion
New York Times:
Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program  —  The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: great gaming and general performance and AMD removed overclocking limitations, but a niche CPU, some software issues, and pricey  —  Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good.  —  Even three years later, AMD's high-end X3D-series processors still …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users  —  Bluesky will let you accept or reject messages from people you might not know.
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10  —  Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a …
Financial Times:
Meituan, Ele.me, and other Chinese food delivery companies plan to offer social security benefits to riders after JD's February move, amid government pressure  —  Leading players act as competition intensifies and Beijing points out their ‘national responsibility’

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
British insurance tycoon and Prospect magazine owner Clive Cowdery takes a minority stake in Tortoise; the Scott Trust has a 9% stake after committing £5M

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charter Communications lost 181K pay TV subscribers in Q1 vs. a decline of 405K in Q1 2024; it had 12.7M pay TV subscribers as of March 31

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
The European Commission accepts requests from Austria and the Netherlands to assess UMG's proposed $775M Downtown Music acquisition announced in December 2024

More News

Reuters:
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health files for a US IPO, and reports revenue of $390M in 2024, up from $293M in 2023, and a net loss of $11.9M

Earlier Picks

New York Times:
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
New York Times:
Eric Schmidt becomes CEO of Relativity Space; sources say Schmidt made a significant investment in the rocket building startup to take a controlling stake
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Asana announces CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring, and reports Q4 sales rose 10% YoY to $188.3M, in line with estimates; ASAN drops 25%+
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Oracle reports Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $14.13B, vs. $14.39B est., and cloud revenue rose 23% YoY to $6.2B
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft is working on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, slated for later in 2025, and successors to the Xbox Series X|S, tentatively slated for 2027
Reuters:
Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales
Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance:
Tech stocks led a broad sell-off: the Nasdaq fell 4%, its sharpest one-day decline since Sept. 2022, with NVDA down 5%, AAPL down 5%, META down 4%, GOOG down 4%
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations
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