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The Atlantic's EIC was accidentally added to a Signal group chat with Trump officials about war plans; Signal isn't approved for sharing classified information — U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model; the previous DeepSeek v3 version had a custom license — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model …
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Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better alignment with human preferences and math reasoning than earlier 2.5 models — Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter. The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google, and Azure cloud services over US privacy fears under Trump; two cloud providers say it is driving interest — Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple says the AirPods Max will get 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio, including Personalized Spatial Audio, and ultra‑low latency in April via a software update — A new firmware update coming in April will also include ultra low-latency for the $549 headphones.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often — OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT … | Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: |
eToro files for an IPO, with plans to list on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, about 96% of which was from cryptoassets, and a $192M net income — The trading and investment platform had $12.6 billion in total revenue in 2024, with net income of $192 million …
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| Reuters: |
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from a cardiac arrest, leaving newly-appointed co-CEO Jun Young-hyun solely in charge — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest. Han was 63.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been misrepresenting its customer base and financial performance — Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. — However, nearly two dozen sources … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils 11 Security Copilot AI agents, five created by partners, that do things like triage phishing and data loss alerts, coming to preview in April — Microsoft has six new security agents that can do things like process phishing and data loss alerts.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate — A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate, the billionaire executive and financier said.
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| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Sources: the European Commission is expected to find that Meta violated the DMA and fine the company hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly over $1B — The European Union is set to slap Mark Zuckerberg's Meta with a fine that could stretch to $1 billion or more for allegedly violating …
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