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March 16, 2025, 12:45 AM

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements  —  Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether …
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to “vibe coding”  —  WATCH NOW  —  Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.
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Bloomberg:
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5  —  The Ernie X1 model by China's internet search leader works similarly to DeepSeek R1 — which shocked Silicon Valley by offering comparable performance …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
A developer who had a one-day session with Swift Assist in late 2024 says its UI is complete but results were not very good, and it falls apart on complex tasks  —  In an item earlier this week observing that Swift Assist, the most ambitious Xcode-related Apple Intelligence feature shown at WWDC last year …
TechCrunch:
A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently  —  Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents.  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year.

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