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March 11, 2025, 4:20 AM

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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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
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%+  —  Dustin Moskovitz, the CEO of Asana and one of the original founders of Facebook, is retire from the software company he started in 2008.
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 …
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  —  EU antitrust regulators are expected to hand out modest fines to Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) for allegedly breaching …
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  —  An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
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’
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  —  Microsoft's first full foray into PC gaming handhelds begins with a partner device set to launch later this year, with its own Xbox Series X|

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