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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple — The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence

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X: @leakerapple, @johnwilson, @dseetharaman, @counternotions, @rihardjarc, @jerrycap, and @eric_seufert

Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and Slashdot

Financial Times:

Sources: the EU plans to charge Apple for alleged anti-competitive conduct and Microsoft on suspicions of taking advantage of its market dominance this week — Also in this newsletter: How the European Commission wants to put G7 plans on Russia's frozen assets into action

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:

In preliminary findings, EU says Apple's anti-steering rules breached DMA, says it is investigating whether Apple's developer fees breached EU rules too — Tech giant faces penalty of up to 10% of global annual revenue — Brussels has accused Apple of stifling competition on its app store …

More: New York Times, Reuters, European Commission, Wall Street Journal, European Commission, Proactive, nltimes.nl, and Spyglass. X: @vestager

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

A look at Apple Intelligence, an umbrella for dozens of models running on-device or in carbon neutral data centers, and why Vision Pro is not getting it yet — An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud …

More: Benedict Evans

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU — The Apple Vision Pro has gotten off to a slow start, spurring management to rethink its plans for the device.

More: MIXED Reality News, Gizchina, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, Android Authority, SamMobile, PhoneArena, Neowin, The Apple Post, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Forbes

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Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, r/virtualreality, r/apple, and r/VisionPro

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal:

Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers — Apps raised fees to offset pay increases in New York and Seattle, frustrating customers and workers

More: PYMNTS.com. Mastodon: @glennf@twit.social. X: @bgurley. LinkedIn: Melissa Schilling

Financial Times:

Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO — Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled

More: Business Insider, Reuters, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, and Benzinga

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X: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @xdaily, and @esghound. Forums: r/musked

New York Times:

Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, more — When the media titans Brian Roberts, John Malone and Barry Diller cast off in early February on Mr. Diller's 156-foot …

More: TechCrunch and Pocket-lint

LinkedIn: David Vogler and Robbie Kellman Baxter

Forums: r/cordcutters and r/wbdstock

Andrew Mills / Reuters:

Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy AI tech in Ooredoo datacenters in five Middle Eastern countries, Nvidia's first major launch in the region — Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centres owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo …

More: Al Bawaba, Benzinga, News.ng, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, Gulf News, Gulf Times, Mobile Europe, and Wccftech

Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/technology

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:

Sources: ByteDance is working with Broadcom on a US sanctions compliant 5nm AI chip, to be made by TSMC, with manufacturing not expected to start this year — China's ByteDance is working with U.S. chip designer Broadcom (AVGO.O) on developing an advanced AI processor …

More: Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, and Benzinga

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages — After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India.

More: The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Financial Express, The Indian Express, Livemint, YourStory, Gizmochina, Inc42 Media, Business Standard, The Indian Express, Meta, NewsBytes, and TechRadar

Politico:

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent — THE BUZZ: FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: One of Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters is wading into the fight over California's AI regulations.

More: WinBuzzer, Y Combinator, and R Street Institute

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:

A federal judge sets a Thursday hearing on the settlement between state AGs and Paramount to address “outstanding questions” about the proposed consent decree

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NYT says it will keep withholding publication or distribution of images captured for the WH still photos pool, in support of outlets Trump “targeted with a ban”

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The White House launches Trump TV, a 24/7 YouTube livestream of the administration's “top past moments”, after press pool ban; critics call it “state-run media”

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices

More: WinBuzzer and Qualcomm AI Hub. X: @qualcomm

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other companies to make their chatbots funnier and keep users engaged with them at home and at work

More: Financial Times and Decrypt

Amelia Tait / Wired:

A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge

More: The Overspill. X: @cjayanetti, @manonthe100, @nickw84, @jamesrbuk, @charlesarthur, @blockheartben, and @ameliargh

LinkedIn: John Ellis and Scott Jones

Kevin Nguyen / The Verge:

Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media

More: Tedium. Threads: @carnage4life, @shortformernie, @pkafka, @katienotopoulos, @richardlawler, and @shiraovide. Bluesky: @waywardboobs.bsky.social

X: @andyorin, @evanromano, @evanromano, @kimrrenfro, @pjmaciak, @loudmouthjulia, and @samro

Bloomberg:

How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021

X: @business and @chrishreiter

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:

An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more

Threads: @rafaelcaricio. Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im. X: @maxpatten, @greglangdon, and @cullend

LinkedIn: Anne Aaron and Magnus Svensson

Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/AV1

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:

Despite a $3T+ valuation, Nvidia remains a little-known brand outside gaming and tech industries due to the speed of its ascent and lack of consumer contact

More: U.Today, Business Insider, Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, and TweakTown. Forums: r/wallstreetbets

Bloomberg:

A look at Switzerland's push to lead the global race to tokenize assets, as officials try to change perceptions around its diminished banking industry

More: Cointelegraph. X: @zurikosan. LinkedIn: Allegra Catelli

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:

How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies

More: Wccftech and TheGamer

Mastodon: @Knoebel@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Nils Svenningsen

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff

More: WinBuzzer, The Daily Beast, Newsmax, The Indian Express, The Verge, and New York Times

Threads: @mac_ryan_, @lunarboy, and @jeffjarvis. Mastodon: @yappari@universeodon.com

X: @marshablackburn, @andrewgiambrone, @christinayiotis, @brianmannadk, @newmexicodoj, @barrymosk, @fdcox, and @omunderdal

LinkedIn: Roderick Mann, Zach Rausch, Robert Birge, and Siva Nadarajah. Forums: r/technology

Dylan Martin / CRN:

Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more

X: @dylanonchips, @techepiphanyyt, @dylanonchips, and @dylanonchips

Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:

In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers

More: Reuters, Engadget, Business Insider, Pixel Envy, Anthropic, and CryptoGlobe

Threads: @parkert, @glenngabe, and @camwilsonreporter

Mastodon: @dmarti@federate.social, @bsmall2@mstdn.jp, and @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. Bluesky: @jenncutter.bsky.social

X: @carnage4life, @rafat, @carnage4life, @halvarflake, and @luke_metro

LinkedIn: Glenn Gabe and Rafael Brown