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Wall Street Journal:

A group of investors led by Elon Musk makes an unsolicited $97.4B offer to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans for OpenAI — Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …

More: Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Reuters, Forbes, Watcher Guru, ZeroHedge News, and The Post Millennial

Bluesky: @evanminto.com and @edzitron.com. Threads: @mgsiegler

X: @sama, @dnak0v, @shakeelhashim, @mgsiegler, @zerohedge, @greg16676935420, @kylebrussell, @eringriffith, and @berber_jin1. Forums: news.ycombinator.com

Bloomberg:

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost” — DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell — Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center

More: CNBC, TechCrunch, Business Insider, BGR, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, Quartz, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, Nairametrics, PYMNTS.com, Finance Magnates, mjtsai.com, and Sherwood News

Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:

An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on DeepSeek, why it isn't AI's “Sputnik moment” but is “a big deal”, how DeepSeek will “get shut down” by the US, and more — Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees

More: Bloomberg, Forbes, and 9to5Mac

X: @professorfengli, @matthewstoller, @martijnrasser, @tanarrowz, and @discoplomacy. LinkedIn: Matthew Garrahan

Liam Dawe / GamingOnLinux:

Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model” — Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB). It was listed on their Pricing page …

More: Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, HotHardware, PC Gamer, Kotaku, GameSpot, Tom's Hardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Game Rant, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TheGamer, Gameranx, TweakTown, GamesRadar, MEDIANAMA, GamesIndustry.biz, TechPowerUp, and Blue's News

Bluesky: @steamdb.info, @evloss, and @themonkey7

Forums: Hacker News, r/Games, r/pcmasterrace, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/pcgaming, r/SteamDeck, r/linux_gaming, and r/technology

Financial Times:

Ahead of the Paris AI summit, Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years and it is France's equivalent to Stargate — French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman

More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Axios, BBC, Bloomberg, New York Times, Politico, The Independent, Le Monde, Variety, Marcus on AI, Daily Sabah, Raw Story, Semafor, Yahoo Finance, Tech Funding News, CNBC, Exponential View, UPI, Silicon Republic, Proactive, RFI, France 24, Daily Mail, Reuters, and The Japan Times

Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social. X: @emmanuelmacron, @garymarcus, @sophiamyang, @mij_europe, @vtchakarova, @btibor91, @florian4gamers, @mikebutcher, @tegmark, @justintrudeau, @dc_lawrence, @fli_org, @shakeelhashim, and @stephaniealai

Forums: r/artificial, r/europe, r/neoliberal, r/wallstreetbets, and r/singularity

Wall Street Journal:

France plans to pledge one gigawatt of nuclear power to AI training, including 250 megawatts by the end of 2026, in a bid to expand Europe's AI capabilities — Macron aims to dedicate a gigawatt of nuclear power to create one of the world's largest AI-computing facilities.

More: Politico, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, Analytics India Magazine, and San Diego Union-Tribune

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive

More: The Guardian, Associated Press, Baltimore Sun, and Reuters

Reuters:

Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC — OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …

More: eWeek, Ars Technica, DatacenterDynamics, The Verge, Thurrott, Capital Brief, Neowin, Sherwood News, Quartz, The Decoder, Wall Street Pit, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, TipRanks Financial, Livemint, Android Headlines, Proactive, Seeking Alpha, and TechPowerUp

Bluesky: @wildebees. Forums: r/hardware, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot

Bloomberg:

Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB's data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X's rivals — Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say

More: Musk Watch, Reuters, Washington Post, The Independent, Raw Story, New Republic, Axios, Just Security, Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press

Bluesky: @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @jwherrman, @juddlegum, @paleofuture, @juddlegum, and @juddlegum. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social. Threads: @rbreich

LinkedIn: Jason Leopold and Evan Weinberger

Anna Washenko / Engadget:

Discord announces Ignore, letting users hide any new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them — Take a break from other accounts without alerting them. — Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore.

More: Discord, PC Gamer, The Hill, How-To Geek, Neowin, Dexerto, and The Verge. LinkedIn: Savannah Badalich

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord raised $27M+ to provide free, open-source tools for improving child safety online, called Robust Open Online Safety Tools

More: Engadget, Punchbowl News, The Verge, ROOST, Maginative, MediaPost, Center for Democracy …, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company, and The Independent

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:

Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026” — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet. — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Robb Report, Android Headlines, Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Pit, Reuters, and Bloomberg

LinkedIn: David Risher. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot

Kalley Huang / The Information:

A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly “risk-averse” — Meta Platforms has erected guardrails around how it develops new products over the past decade to better protect …

More: Kemi Ashefon Love Haven, News Central TV, and WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @caseynewton

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges — As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between …

Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange. X: @a_greenberg. Forums: r/cybersecurity

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Paramount has discussed creating an oversight committee to protect news independence at CNN; News Corp created a similar group when it bought Dow Jones

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:

Sources: Forbes fired Chief Content Officer Randall Lane last month after finding he received ~$6M from R.J. Shook, founder of Forbes partner Shook Research

Dan Mangan / CNBC:

President Trump announces that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post by the end of August to spend more time with her family

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Dan O'Shea / Fierce Electronics:

NXP Semiconductors announces a $307M deal to acquire Kinara, which makes NPUs and related software for edge AI applications

More: eeNews Europe, RCR Wireless News, and Hackster.io

Scott Rosenberg / Axios:

Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact by analyzing anonymized Claude usage data, showing 57% of AI use leans toward augmentation

More: VentureBeat, Anthropic, The Decoder, and Constellation Research

X: @anthropicai and @anthropicai

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:

Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles; one trader made a $550K profit from Eagles bets

More: Blockonomi, Blockhead, The Crypto Times, and NFL.com

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: China is building a list of US tech firms to target in a trade war, including Broadcom and Synopsys, whose $35B acquisition needs Beijing's approval

More: Benzinga and itprotoday

Bloomberg:

Taiwanese government data: exports to Mexico surged 479% YoY to $2.7B in January 2025, led by GPU shipments, as Foxconn, Wistron, and more build fabs in Mexico

Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:

Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth

New York Times:

After the Los Angeles fires, over 1M people donated $250M+ via GoFundMe, or $20M more than the service collected for all natural disasters worldwide in 2024

More: Los Angeles Times. Bluesky: @rmac

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:

TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range

More: Taiwan Semiconductor …, Taipei Times, HPCwire, Focus Taiwan, Proactive, TweakTown, Reuters, Bloomberg, and DigiTimes

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Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:

A look at Delivery Hero, profitable since late 2023, as it focuses on the Middle East and Asia while cutting costs and shedding units across 70+ countries

More: Tech in Asia

Financial Times:

A look at the race to bring satellite-connected smartphones to a wider market, as estimates suggest that ~350M people lack access to mobile broadband coverage

More: MDA, planet4589.org, PCMag, and Reuters

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

A study found that phishing tests and other training programs designed to educate employees about online dangers reduced phishing success rates by just 2%

X: @argvee. LinkedIn: Matt Linton

Bloomberg:

Sources: Shein asked some top apparel suppliers in China to set up new production lines in Vietnam, with incentives like higher procurement prices of up to 30%

More: Tech in Asia

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:

TrendForce: China's share of global mature node manufacturing capacity in 2024 was 34%, below Taiwan's 43%, but China is forecasted to exceed Taiwan by 2027

More: Taipei Times, Semiconductor Industry Association, and Tech in Asia

X: @lithos_graphein and @lithos_graphein

Forums: r/hardware and Beehaw

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:

T-Mobile says satellite texting, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month

More: T-Mobile, T-Mobile on YouTube, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Android Headlines, TechEBlog, Reuters, TESLARATI, Engadget, MakeUseOf, Tech.co, Droid Life, Neowin, Android Authority, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and GeekWire

X: @tmobile, @palmerluckey, @mdrobuck, and @tmfassociates

LinkedIn: Tessie Roncari and Damien Innes

Forums: r/apple, r/verizon, and r/tmobile

Alice Robb / Bloomberg:

A look at the debate about how much authors should get paid to license books for AI; Microsoft offered HarperCollins $5,000 per title, of which authors get 50%

More: Music Ally. X: @newsfromcity and @alicelrobb. Forums: r/singularity