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Apple says it is working to fix an issue after users said its automatic dictation system was transcribing the word “racist” as “Trump”, before correcting itself — The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
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Forums: r/applesucks, r/iphone, r/politics, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/apple, r/Conservative, and MacRumors Forums
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: Meta is in talks to build a new data center campus for AI that could cost over $200B, based on the number of chips and the amount of power for the site — Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything … | Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek, which planned to release R2 in May 2025, now wants R2 out as soon as possible; DeepSeek owner High-Flyer built a 10K A100 GPU cluster in 2021 — DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. — The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off …
More: Ubergizmo, BGR, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, Capacity Media, and TechNode. Forums: Slashdot
| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia says Apple signed a deal to invest in Indonesia and will issue it a permit, paving the way for resuming iPhone 16 sales after a five-month tussle — The agreement was announced by Minister for Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita in a media briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday, as reported by Bloomberg Technoz.
More: TechCrunch, Hindustan Times, Reuters, Phandroid, MacRumors, Android Headlines, Mobile World Live, and The Jakarta Post. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot — Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots …
More: Moneycontrol. Bluesky: @carlypage. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How the hackers behind the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets — The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday's heist, likely by North Korea …
More: The Trail of Bits Blog, Check Point Research, MEDIANAMA, and The Crypto Times
Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com and @Edent.mastodon.social …
Forums: r/Buttcoin, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
After backlash, YC deletes a demo video from X and LinkedIn of Optifye.AI, a startup it backs that is building AI performance monitoring for factory workers — A demo from Optifye.AI, a member of Y Combinator's current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials.
More: 404 Media, StrictlyVC, Gazetteer SF, Ritik Gulabrani on YouTube, The San Francisco Standard, and San Francisco Business Times
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @samleecole, and @jasonkoebler
X: @neverhimself, @mashcr0ft, @nexuist, @growing_daniel, @vcbrags, @adamlerman5, @archiexzzz, @litcapital, and @miranda_nover
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/technology
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve's Steam Deck, launched in 2022, has been dominating the handheld PC gaming market, with about 50% market share in 2024, according to IDC — Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw: The Steam Deck is bigger than them combined. … Today is the third anniversary of Valve's Steam Deck …
More: The Shortcut, PC Gamer, Metro.co.uk, TelecomLead, Push Square, Gameranx, TechSpot, GamingBolt, Pocket-lint, and Forbes
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. X: @rodimus_j, @genepark, @loganopiano, @carygolomb, @playeressence, and @stealth40k
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/gaming, r/SteamDeck, and r/Steam
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD closes three game studios and cancels a highly anticipated Wonder Woman title in a bid to boost the profitability of its interactive entertainment business — - Company halts work on highly anticipated Wonder Woman title — Closures follow several disappointing releases last year
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Framework unveils the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300, priced at $1,099 for a pre-built model, and Framework Laptop 12 with a touch screen, price TBA — The Framework Laptop 13 is also getting an AMD-based update. — Framework is expanding its laptop lineup and getting into desktops.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
More: PCWorld, Framework Blog, PCMag, The Indian Express, GamingOnLinux, Digital Trends, Press Start, Gameranx, PC Gamer, Laptop Mag, and Tom's Guide
X: @gawroskit, @iancutress, @lisasu, @vadimyuryev, and @frameworkputer
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| The Verge: |
A survey of 2,000 US adults finds 42% say that search engines like Google are becoming less useful, 60% view the state of social media negatively, and more — - Platform Shifts — Defining Connection — Content Matters (Especially in Communities) — Brands Matter.AI May Complicate
Forums: r/technology
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI expands Deep Research to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, with 10 queries per month; Pro users now have 120 queries per month, up from 100 — A $200 Pro subscription is no longer required to use the tool. — When OpenAI announced Deep Research at start of February …
More: VentureBeat, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, Maginative, BGR, Analytics India Magazine, Business Today, Nairametrics, Tom's Guide, Neowin, VentureBeat, TechRadar, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, MakeUseOf, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer
X: @openai, @sama, @openai, @morqon, @openai, @noahpinion, @liamfedus, @kevinweil, and @openaidevs
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US workers in October 2024: 52% are worried about AI's workplace impact, 32% think it will mean fewer job opportunities, 36% feel hopeful, and more — About a third of workers say AI use will lead to fewer job opportunities for them in the long run; chatbots seen as more helpful … | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Apple removing ADP in the UK is a pyrrhic victory for Apple, and UK users' muted response suggests they may not care about privacy as much as the company thinks — If the tech giant hopes that killing encryption will cause public upset and deter other governments, it's probably wrong.
More: BBC, 9to5Mac, and Schneier on Security
| Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Wan 2.1, a family of open-source AI models for generating images and videos, available globally on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and Hugging Face — Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 …
More: Engadget, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, CNBC, The Information, and Tech in Asia
| Jacklyn Wille / Bloomberg Law: |
A US federal judge dismisses a lawsuit against TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos, saying the case failed on its merits and citing Section 230 — Mothers who sued TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos that allegedly led to their children's deaths failed … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 — Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. … According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide.| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
IBM plans to acquire DataStax and its cloud database development platform to expand IBM's Watsonx AI portfolio; Crunchbase says DataStax has raised $342.6M — IBM said Tuesday it has a deal to acquire DataStax, including that company's database platform, data streaming technology …
More: DataStax, The Register, IBM, IBM, Verdict, SiliconANGLE, DataStax, Techstrong.ai, InfoWorld, Constellation Research, The New Stack, and The Stack
| Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia — In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally …
Bluesky: @noahshachtman, @wired.com, @noahshachtman, @wired.com, @katie-drummond, @noahshachtman, and @noahshachtman
Forums: r/geopolitics and r/TrueReddit
| Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus: |
Patreon's 2025 creator economy report shows the future may be direct-to-fan instead of direct-to-consumer, but the hurdles in place are more seismic than ever — The future may be direct-to-fan instead of direct-to-consumer, but the hurdles in place are more seismic than ever — Beware all studies.| Ellen Barry / New York Times: |
The American Psychological Association warns the US FTC that AI chatbots “masquerading” as therapists could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others — The nation's largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots …
More: Inc. Bluesky: @mjcrockett and @hypervisible. LinkedIn: Daniel Oberhaus
Forums: r/therapists and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: in 2024, TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, became the first non-game app to reach $6B in annual in-app purchase revenue — TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, in 2024 became the first non-game app to reach $6 billion in in-app purchase revenue in a year.| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
Trump says “Apple should get rid of DEI rules, not just make adjustments to them” in a Truth Social post, after Apple investors rejected a proposal to end DEI — - Investors turned down outside proposal to scrap DEI efforts — Trump escalates campaign against diversity hiring practices| Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: |
Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia's KAUST, on the kingdom's AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more — With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber … | Financial Times: |
Survey: 92% of UK undergrad students use AI to help them with their studies, up from 66% a year ago, raising questions about how universities assess their work — Rapid spread of technology raises questions about how to assess undergraduate work — The number of UK undergraduate students … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bridgetown Research, which aims to use AI agents to expedite data collection and research in due diligence, raised a $19M Series A led by Accel and Lightspeed — Due diligence is a costly business, and not just in the realm of investing. Even for a company trying to launch a new product …
More: Reuters, The Economic Times, GeekWire, and YourStory.com
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Analysts expect Amazon to spend up to $25B of its $100B capex in 2025 on its retail network, focusing on automation and efficiency, amid the AI spending boom — US tech giant expected to spend as much as $25bn on warehouse automation in broader efficiency drive
More: PYMNTS.com and Benzinga
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