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Gemini 2.5 Pro hands-on: a very strong model with 1M input tokens, 64K output tokens, a January 2025 knowledge cut-off, and very, very impressive coding skills — There's a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model …
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TD Cowen: Microsoft walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that had been set to consume 2 gigawatts, a sign of AI computing oversupply — The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Developers say aggressive AI crawlers are overwhelming open-source infrastructure; LibreNews: up to 97% of some projects' traffic comes from AI companies' bots — Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils AI “deep reasoning” agents for 365 Copilot: Researcher, based on OpenAI's deep research model, and Analyst, based on o3-mini, coming in April — Multi-step reasoning AI is coming to Microsoft Copilot. … After Google and OpenAI offered up AI news on Tuesday … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Waze says it is removing Google Assistant for iPhone users, citing “ongoing difficulties” with the integration, after recently testing a Gemini-based assistant — Google has already started replacing Assistant with Gemini across its devices.
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| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
Sources: Fidelity Investments is in the advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, managed by its digital assets arm; Trump pledged to back USD stablecoins — Asset manager is in advanced stages of testing token as the Trump administration prepares to overhaul crypto oversight| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon rolls out AI tool Interests, which checks for new inventory by interests, price limits, and preferences, to US users, and is testing chatbot Health AI — Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe …
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The US adds export restrictions to 80 organizations, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and clients of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD — The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Mercury, a neobank serving early-stage startups, raised $300M led by Sequoia at a $3.5B valuation; the fintech company saw $2B in deposits after SVB's collapse — Fintech banking startup Mercury says it has more than doubled its valuation to $3.5 billion after raising $300 million in its latest funding round.
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Leaked email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, after cutting ~1,000 roles in January 2024 — Fintech Block laid off 931 people, roughly 8% of the company's staff, on Tuesday, according to a leaked message from the company seen by TechCrunch.| Stanley Widianto / Reuters: |
Apple says the iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, after Jakarta lifted a sales ban following Apple's $300M+ investment plan — Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, it said on Wednesday, after Jakarta lifted a ban …
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In an addendum to the GPT-4o System Card, OpenAI says it is “not blocking the capability to generate adult public figures” and that public figures can opt out — Introducing 4o Image Generation. When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features …
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Sources: Italy hands tax demands to Meta, X, and LinkedIn in the last step in its VAT case, seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn — Italy has handed tax demands to Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn in the last formal step in an unprecedented VAT claim … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
eMarketer expects X to generate $1.31B in US ad sales in 2025, up 17.5%, and $2.26B in global ad sales, up 16.5%, its first year of ad revenue growth since 2022 — Elon Musk's X is on pace for its first year of advertising revenue growth since the billionaire acquired the company in 2022 …
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IPO filings: CoreWeave, set to launch a $32B IPO on March 28, violated key terms of a $7.6B Blackstone loan in 2024, triggering a series of technical defaults — US cloud company seeking blockbuster $32bn IPO had to remedy serious administrative errors in December| Jeff Dunn / Engadget: |
iPad (A16) review: fast chip, double the storage, 2GB more RAM, good build quality and battery, and loads of apps, but an aging display and no M chips or AI — Apple's base tablet gets a few common-sense upgrades, but display and accessory issues remain. — When it debuted in 2022 … | Jason Kehe / Wired: |
A look at RISC architecture's origins, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and how RISCites beat the CISCites, as RISC's increasing adoption risks US companies' dominance — “RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Leaked financial figures: Stripe doubled its free cash flow in 2024 to about $2.2B and grew revenues by about 28% to $5.1B; Chime grew revenues by 31% to $1.7B — Stripe is putting up the kind of numbers that would send its stock soaring, if it had public stock.| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Island, which offers a Chromium-based secure enterprise browser, raised a $250M Series E led by Coatue at a $4.8B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$730M — Island Technology Inc., the developer of a secure Chromium-based browser for the enterprise, today announced that it has raised $250 million …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach that lets its customers boost LLM performance without the need for clean labeled data — Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don't have squeaky clean data.| Bloomberg: |
BMW partners with Alibaba to use Qwen-powered AI cockpit tech from Alibaba-backed Banma in its upcoming car models for the Chinese market, rolling out in 2026 — BMW will adopt AI cockpit technology from Alibaba-backed Banma for its upcoming models tailored for the Chinese market, the companies said Wednesday in a joint statement.
More: BMW BLOG, Alizila, Euronews, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/baba
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets teens send reports of their chatbot usage to their parents, including which bots they are talking to — They won't see the contents of the chats. … Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature …
More: Character.AI Blog, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, Mashable, and Neowin
| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU's Huawei corruption probe is looking at alleged exchanges of soccer tickets and phones for political favors; one detainee is a Huawei lobbyist — Representatives for Chinese tech giant accused of offering cash, football tickets and smartphones to parliament staff
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