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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell will take over Siri, which is being removed from AI head John Giannandrea; Rockwell will report to Craig Federighi — Apple Inc. is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track …
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Benedict Evans: |
Apple stumbling with Vision Pro and then falling flat on its face with AI suggests that it is slipping into a Vista-like drift of systemically poor execution — It matters that Apple's new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn't realise. Is it more than that?
More: MacRumors, Livemint, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, and Beyond Search
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; source: Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut — Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company's video-streaming service …
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| Reuters: |
Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its US IPO at a valuation between $27.4B and $32B, selling 49M shares for $47 to $55; Nvidia owns 5.96% — CoreWeave is targeting a valuation of up to $32 billion on a fully diluted basis in its U.S. initial public offering, as the Nvidia …
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| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Microsoft chose not to exercise a ~$12B option to buy more data center capacity from CoreWeave; OpenAI snapped up the contract on March 10 — The Scoop — Microsoft chose not to exercise a nearly $12 billion option to buy more data-center capacity from CoreWeave …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web, using AI to show the most relevant results instead of showing them in chronological order — Google is introducing “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web that leverages “AI to show you the most relevant results, faster.”| New York Times: |
A profile of longtime Elon Musk loyalist Steve Davis, who effectively runs DOGE after SpaceX, Boring Company, and X stints, based on interviews with 22 sources — Elon Musk declared last month that the federal government was engaged in “utterly insane” activity, claiming without evidence … | Sue Marek / Ookla: |
Analysis: AT&T and Verizon Speedtest users saw higher median download speeds on the iPhone 16e and its C1 than the iPhone 16; T-Mobile users saw the opposite — The 16e is the first iPhone to feature the Apple-designed C1 modem. — Key Takeaways: — AT&T and Verizon Speedtest® …
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X: @suemarek, @trungtphan, and @jimmyjames_tech
Forums: r/cellmapper, r/apple, r/hardware, and r/iphone
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon — Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.
More: Anthropic, Engadget, ZDNET, Neowin, MediaPost, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, On my Om, Simon Willison's Weblog, WeRSM, and Seeking Alpha
Threads: @parkerortolani. X: @alliekmiller, @alexalbert__, @kamathematic, @anthropicai, @esindurmusnlp, @miles_brundage, @_catwu, and @om
Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, and r/singularity
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta plans to roll out Meta AI with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, after pausing its debut in June 2024 — A more limited version of Meta AI will head to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger this week.| Bloomberg: |
Huawei unveils the 6.3" Pura X, a flip foldable that opens from the side, not the top, and its first flagship with HarmonyOS 5, launching in China for ~$1,036 — The 6.3-inch Pura X folds in half to a square clamshell with a 3.5-inch display on the exterior and was introduced …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API — OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases.
More: OpenAI, VentureBeat, Inc, Simon Willison's Weblog, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchange Kraken acquires US retail futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B, pending “purchase price adjustments”; NinjaTrader has 1.8M+ customers — NinjaTrader, a futures trading platform, would expand Kraken's offerings — The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken agreed …
More: Business Wire, Kraken Blog, Reuters, Bloomberg, Decrypt, The Information, The Block, Axios, Pulse 2.0, Blockonomi, CryptoNinjas, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, Proactive, Crypto Briefing, Fortune, CryptoSlate, Benzinga, CoinDesk, Blockhead, Yahoo Finance, NFTgators, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025 — Video Quests will start rolling out to mobile users in June. … Discord is bringing third-party ads to its mobile platform.
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| Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend “several hundred billion” on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid US tariff threats — Jensen Huang's pledge follows onshoring plans by other tech companies as Trump trade policies ripple through industry
More: Tom's Hardware, Tech Monitor, Fox Business, The Guardian, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, ZeroHedge News, Verdict, WinBuzzer, Axios, TipRanks Financial, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, and Capital Brief
Forums: r/nvidia, r/scimmieinborsa, r/intelstock, r/Economics, and Beehaw
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Michael Seibel says he is leaving YC after 12+ years and moving to a “Partner Emeritus” role, after stepping back from his “leadership responsibilities” in 2024 — Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at Y Combinator, he is transitioning to a “partner emeritus” role.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Threads rolls out new features: ability to set following feed or any custom feed as the default, limit post replies to followers, a better video player, more — Threads will also let you limit replies to just followers and add topics to your bio. … Meta is finally allowing Threads users …
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Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @zuck, and @tomwarrenuk
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on his background, OpenAI's origin as a nonprofit, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and AGI — This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …
More: Don't Worry About the Vase and Business Insider
X: @eric_seufert, @reidjjackson, @trengriffin, @martyswant, and @zephyr_z9
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M — The company has discussed raising as much as $500 million to $1 billion in the round, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Source: Insight Partners is set to reap ~$2.7B from the pending sale of Wiz to Alphabet, a 15.5x return on its invested capital, based on its ~8% stake in Wiz — The investment firm will reap about $2.7 billion from the deal, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.| Fortune: |
Walrus Foundation, which is building an on-chain storage network, raised $140M from Standard Crypto, a16z, and others in a sale of its cryptocurrency, $WAL — Blockchain networks that host files aren't new. Filecoin, Arweave, and a handful of others promise a Google Cloud-like product …
More: Walrus, CoinDesk, The Block, crypto.news, and NFTgators
| Financial Times: |
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Donald Trump; many pointed to Amazon losing the $10B JEDI contract during Trump's first term as a watershed moment — In the past year, the Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with the president that has surprised even longtime associates
More: Ars Technica and MediaPost
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Germany's Munich Re agrees to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6B; Next Insurance has raised ~$1.2B from Capital G, Redpoint, and others — Germany's Munich Re has signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6 billion, the firms announced on Thursday.
More: Next Insurance, Globes Online, and Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank acquires Ampere Computing for $6.5B in cash, with Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes as part of the deal, which is expected to close in H2 2025 — SoftBank is buying Ampere in an all-cash transaction that values the Santa Clara, California-based firm at $6.5 billion, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News.
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| Reuters: |
X sues Narendra Modi's government in New Delhi, saying its IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content — India's IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered … | The Guardian: |
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods — Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK NCSC urges large entities, including energy and transport providers, to introduce “post-quantum cryptography” by 2035 to protect against quantum hackers — Organisations including energy and transport firms told to guard systems against powerful new computers
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases — Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That's what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical.Sponsor Posts
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