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Maggie Miller / Politico:
DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack  —  The app had been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past.  —  Director of National Intelligence …
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google says it plans to develop Android fully in private to streamline the development process but will continue to publish the source code for new releases  —  Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach  —  Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people …
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.
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
Bloomberg:
TD Cowen: Microsoft canceled new data center projects in the US and Europe that would've amounted to ~2 gigawatts of capacity, a sign of AI computing oversupply  —  The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says Shorts views will now be counted each time a video starts to play or replay, rather than only after being watched for a certain number of seconds  —  YouTube is changing how it counts views on YouTube Shorts to give creators a deeper understanding of how their short-form content is performing …
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 …
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 …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill requiring Apple's and Google's mobile app stores to verify user ages and require parental consent for minors to use some apps  —  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Wednesday signed a bill that requires Apple and Google's mobile app stores to verify user ages …
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.
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 …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
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 …
Financial Times:
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
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
xAI's Grok AI chatbot is now integrated with Telegram for Telegram Premium users, marking Grok's first big expansion beyond X  —  X is looking to expand the reach of its Grok chatbot, by partnering with messaging app Telegram on a new integration.  —  So now, if you're subscribed …
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 …
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.

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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Marc Maron plans to end WTF With Marc Maron podcast in the fall; the groundbreaking podcast helped define the medium with 1,600+ episodes after its 2009 launch

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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
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Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9
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