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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info  —  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 math reasoning and alignment with human preferences 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.
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, 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 …
Danny Park / The Block:
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU  —  - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits …
Reuters:
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO  —  South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure over US privacy fears under Trump; two European 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.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse  —  A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …
TechCrunch:
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers  —  Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan  —  It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs.  —  Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs …
More: TechInsights
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at Apple's bad Apple TV+ strategy, including dismissing Netflix's growth, building a platform without a back-catalog, and using TV+ to boost device sales  —  “Apple is Losing Over $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Service” - the literal headline number in this report about Apple TV+ by The Information looks scary.
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Reuters:
Document: India orders Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601M in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs on key telecoms equipment imports  —  India has ordered Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601 million in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs …
Reuters:
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras' IPO, in limbo for months, has been delayed while Trump fills key roles and CFIUS reviews Abu Dhabi-based G42's $335M investment  —  Cerebras Systems executives were hoping the Trump administration would wave through a national security review that has left …
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Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:
eToro files for an IPO, seeking to list as ETOR on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, ~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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: the White House plans to impose its own seating chart for briefing room reporters, taking over a function long managed by the reporters through the WHCA

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers
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
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
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
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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