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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.
CNBC:
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.
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 …
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.  Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
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
Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples:
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”  —  // I lead model behavior at OpenAI.  —  This week, we launched native image generation in ChatGPT through 4o.
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
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month
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 …
Sheon Han / Wired:
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints  —  Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv.  Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go.
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 …

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The New York Times wins four Pulitzers, the most of any news organization in 2025; The Washington Post wins two, and ProPublica wins the public service prize

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The White House says “no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made” and it is exploring options for “Making Hollywood Great Again”

The Guardian:
How Ethiopia, host of the 2019 World Press Freedom Day, became one of the most repressive countries for media after the war in the Tigray region began in 2020

More News

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10%
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans
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