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| Makena Kelly / Wired: |
Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of the system — Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.
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CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order — CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company's IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more — The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while watching Claude think: planning ahead, confusion between safety and helpfulness goals, lying, more — Researchers looked inside the chatbot's “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling. — The researchers … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump — Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing — Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use …
More: The Keyword, Engadget, Thurrott, Google Help Center, and Android Police
| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
The US FDIC says banks can engage in cryptocurrency and other legally permitted activities without prior regulatory approval if they manage risks appropriately — Another U.S. bank regulator has announced that banks do not need to receive advance permission to engage in some crypto-related activities.
More: crypto.news, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
A US judge dismisses Samsung's Oura lawsuit, saying Samsung acted prematurely in seeking a judgment that Galaxy Ring doesn't infringe on Oura's patents — Samsung essentially jumped the gun in trying to preemptively block any potential Oura patent claims.
More: Android Central, Android Authority, SamMobile, and ip fray
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges — - Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company. — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK on April 10; the company delayed the phone's launch to April to check “on a component quality issue” — After a last-minute delay, Google today announced that Pixel 9a will launch starting April 10.
More: Thurrott, PCMag, Ars Technica, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, Business Standard, How-To Geek, Android Authority, Neowin, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, The Shortcut, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, and Droid Life. Forums: r/GooglePixel
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent — It followed a Muddy Waters report released on Thursday that alleged that AppLovin was misappropriating data and violating some of its platform partners' terms of service … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech — Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers …
More: Tom's Hardware, Taipei Times, Nikkei Asia, Android Headlines, CNBC, Financial Times, Reuters, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns — It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
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| Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples: |
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