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March 12, 2025, 11:35 PM

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Bhanvi Satija / Reuters:
Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO, effective March 18, and says he'll rejoin the board; INTC jumps 11%+ after hours  —  Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) on Wednesday named former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO effective March 18 …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025  —  The device, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025. … Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based Robotics and Robotics-ER, to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before”  —  Gemini Robotics also makes robots more dexterous, allowing them to perform more precise tasks, like folding a piece of paper.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Jay Peters / The Verge:
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected  —  An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
TechCrunch:
Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities  —  Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results  —  The company said classical computers can't beat its quantum computer in magnetic materials simulation.  Some physicists disagree.
Bloomberg:
Roomba maker iRobot warns of “substantial doubt” over its ability to continue operating, after Amazon abandoned a $1B+ takeover in January 2024; IRBT drops 35%+  —  IRobot Corp., the consumer robotics company that Amazon.com Inc. once planned to buy for more than $1 billion …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
The US FTC says it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after asking a judge for a delay due to staffing shortfalls  —  The Federal Trade Commission said it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after requesting a delay due to resource constraints.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action  —  A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple delaying the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, after pitching them at WWDC 2024, squanders the credibility Apple built over decades  —  In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: an Xbox-branded Asus handheld may debut this year as part of Microsoft's effort to unify Windows and Xbox into a universal library of Xbox and PC games  —  Microsoft's next-gen Xbox platform is shaping up.  —  Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer warned in November …
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI models on their books without consent, say they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches  —  SNE, the trade association representing major French publishers including Hachette and Editis, along …
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Food delivery startup Wonder acquires the media company Tastemade, sources say for around $90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app”  —  Wonder CEO Marc Lore hopes the company will one day offer AI-powered autonomous food ordering for all three meals of the day
Bloomberg:
Sources: Supabase, which bills itself as an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase, is raising $100M+ in a round led by Accel, valuing the company at ~$2B  —  Accel is leading the funding round of more than $100 million.  —  Supabase Inc., an open source developer platform …
Bill Peters / MarketWatch:
UiPath shares fell over 15% after the company projected FY 2026 sales of $1.525B to $1.53B, vs. $1.58B estimates; PATH is down 51.6% over the past 12 months  —  UiPath shares were dropping around 15% after hours Wednesday  —  Referenced Symbols  —  Shares of UiPath Inc. fell sharply …

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