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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed  —  Apple is developing a “refreshed” version of its C1 modem for mass production next year that will improve power consumption and transmission speed …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password adds a feature to help find a login, password, or access code by adding a specific physical location to items in a new Nearby section of the app  —  You can now add a location for passwords and other items saved in 1Password. … 1Password introduced a new feature today …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox  —  Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs  —  Qwen Team, which is growing Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs) …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YC partner Jared Friedman says ~25% of the W25 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, not including things like code written to import libraries  —  With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time  —  You can still choose how often you see AI-assisted answers, which now incorporate results from the web.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI  —  In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that can turn complex PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files  —  On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents.  Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition …
New York Times:
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te reassures citizens that TSMC's plans to spend $100B in the US would benefit Taiwan, after the move caused anxiety and criticism  —  The Taiwanese chip giant TSMC's plan to invest $100 billion in the United States has been met with anxiety and criticism in its home country.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
USCIS proposes reviewing social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO  —  People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils AI agents Sales Agent and Sales Chat that connect to Dynamics 365 business apps and Salesforce, available in public preview from May 2025  —  Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.
Financial Times:
Sources: before CoreWeave's IPO, Microsoft canceled some agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 revenue  —  AI data centre provider hit by blow from biggest customer ahead of the biggest tech listing this year
Brian McGleenon / The Block:
Nansen: Trump's World Liberty Financial bought Ether worth $10M, WBTC worth $10M, and MOVE worth $1.5M ahead of the White House Crypto Summit  —  - World Liberty Financial has increased its cryptocurrency holdings ahead of the White House Crypto Summit — acquiring over $25 million …
CoinDesk:
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP before his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing  —  Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried suggested on Thursday in an interview with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson that one of the reasons …
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform  —  The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software.  —  Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million …
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Bloomberg:
Chipmaker SiTime's shares closed up 19.53% on March 5 after TechInsights' iPhone 16e teardown revealed that Apple used SiTime's timer chips in the smartphone  —  The appearance of SiTime Corp. components in the new iPhone 16e is fueling a stock rally for the little-known chipmaker, sending the shares up as much as 17% on Wednesday.

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From Mediagazer

Sara Fischer / Axios:
PBS and a public TV affiliate in Minnesota sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights

Max Tani / Semafor:
The California State Senate opens an inquiry into whether Paramount's reported $15M proposed settlement with Trump violated bribery and unfair competition laws

Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift acquires the rights to her first six albums from Shamrock Capital; sources say the deal was in the mid-$300M range

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Forbes:
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search
Ira Alok Puranik / The Economic Times:
India's Income Tax Bill 2025 gives income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' accounts like email and social media if they suspect tax evasion

Earlier Picks

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $548.4M, vs. $519.6M est., and for FY 2026 projects the slowest growth rate since going public in 2017; MDB drops 20%+
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple's M4 MacBook Air supports two monitors of up to 6K resolution each, plus the built-in 13.6" or 15.3" display, addressing the prior M3 models' limitation
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor
Mahmoud Itani / Macworld:
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers
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