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March 3, 2023, 12:50 PM

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Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Amazon pauses second phase of construction of its HQ2 in Virginia as it reassesses office needs following its deepest-ever job cuts; phase one nears completion  —  Amazon.com Inc. is pausing construction on its sprawling second headquarters near Washington, a decision that coincides …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M on a new plant to make iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create 100K jobs  —  Apple Inc. partner Foxconn Technology Group plans to invest about $700 million on a new plant in India to ramp up local production …
Axios:
Sources: Founders Fund cut the size of its Fund VIII, which hasn't begun deploying capital, from ~$1.8B to ~$900M; the money will be pushed to its ninth fund  —  Founders Fund has quietly cut the size of its eighth venture capital fund in half, from around $1.8 billion to around $900 million, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users, from $1,500 to $1,000; 256GB Quest 2 drops from $500 to $430  —  Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the Meta Quest Pro, the company's mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users …
Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg:
Coinbase buys One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves only institutional clients such as pension funds; One River was valued at $186M in 2021  —  Coinbase Global Inc., still reeling from a plunge in trading volume on its exchanges, is expanding into a less-volatile corner …
New York Times:
Few US lawmakers are taking action to regulate AI, as many struggle to understand the technology and its dangers, unlike the EU which proposed AI rules in 2021  —  Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Brave Search launches Summarizer, which provides a synopsis of search results for some queries using its own LLM trained to fight “unsubstantiated assertions”  —  It is raining AI-powered features all across search engines.  Today, Brave Search launched a new “Summarizer” …
Washington Post:
US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users' First Amendment rights  —  Happy Thursday!  If you've ever thought some people in Washington should be in straitjackets, well, I guess you got your wish.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET's use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large  —  Following monthslong questions about how CNET uses artificial intelligence tools, longtime CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Sources: Inflection AI, founded by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, is in talks to raise up to $675M, after raising $225M in 2022  —  DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn Creator Reid Hoffman's start-up is building a personal assistant for the web

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