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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU Commission fines Apple €1.8B for stifling competition from rival music streaming services, the EU's third-largest antitrust fine; Apple plans to appeal — iPhone maker hit by first-ever Brussels fine as competition watchdogs step up scrutiny of Big Tech
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Apple says Spotify was the “primary advocate” and “biggest beneficiary” of the EU's ruling, Spotify pays Apple nothing, and that “free isn't enough for Spotify” — Today, the European Commission announced a decision claiming the App Store has been a barrier …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3, offering an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, starting at $1,099 or $1,299 and shipping on March 8 — Apple today announced its next-generation M3 MacBook Air range, in 13-inch and 15-inch sizes. The new models are available to order today, and will start shipping March 8.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic announces Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, aiming to reduce AI model hallucinations; Opus and Sonnet are available now, and Haiku in the coming weeks — The startup says new versions of Claude will be twice as likely to answer a question correctly.| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic says Claude 3 outperforms GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra on some benchmarks, and adds multimodal support for photos, charts, docs, and more for the first time — - Anthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a chatbot and suite of AI models that it calls its fastest and most powerful yet.
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| The Economic Times: |
Indian watchdog MeitY issues an advisory asking developers to seek the government's “explicit permission” before testing or deploying AI models or AI algorithms — In its advisory sent late on Friday, the IT ministry has also said that such platforms will have to explicitly seek permission …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or customized AI models, raised a $40M Series B led by IVP and Spark, a source says at a $200M+ valuation — Baseten has raised $40 million to make it easier for companies to actually deploy AI applications in a practical way after growing …
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese city governments plan to offer “computing vouchers”, worth $140K to $280K, to AI startups, to try to level the playing field with China's tech giants — Chinese tech giants are hogging scarce cloud resources to develop generative AI models as US restrictions bite
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Razor and Perch merge and raise $100M at a $1.7B valuation, amid more consolidation in the e-commerce aggregation space, known for buying up Amazon retailers — Just days after the bankruptcy of Thrasio, two other significant players in the world of e-commerce aggregators are merging …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
As work on 6G standards continues, telcos are talking about 5.5G, or 5G Advanced, set to bring faster uplink speeds, network slicing, and enhanced positioning — - Telecom operators haven't yet finished rolling out 5G mobile internet. They're already talking about building “5.5G,” or “5G Advanced.”| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at how Apple's hubris doomed its electric car project, its spring hardware updates that won't have a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans — Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Airpodsmax, r/ipad, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Matthew Martin / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabian e-commerce software startup Salla raised $130M from Investcorp, Sanabil, and others, in what is likely to be its last funding round before an IPO — - Sanabil, STV also participated in the pre-IPO fundraising — Salla is part of bevy of Saudi startups prepping for listing
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