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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
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:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Reuters:
Sources: quantum computing startup PsiQuantum is raising at least $750M led by BlackRock at a $6B pre-money valuation  —  Quantum computing startup PsiQuantum is raising at least $750 million at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources describe rising tensions at Warner Bros. Pictures amid movie flops, with WBD CEO David Zaslav losing confidence in co-heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner “to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division”

Brian Stelter / CNN:
A US district court judge issues a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration's efforts to close Voice of America, in a lawsuit by VOA staff

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Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Media signs a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to launch ETFs under its Truth.Fi brand later this year, comprising digital assets and securities

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI expands COO Brad Lightcap's role to oversee day-to-day operations, including global expansion and partnerships; Altman will focus on research and product
Bloomberg:
23andMe files for bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”, and co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down; 23andMe was valued at $3.5B in June 2021
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