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February 13, 2025, 8:05 PM
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Financial Times:
Sources: Arm plans to launch its own chip, expected to be a CPU for servers in large data centers, this year after securing Meta as one of its first customers  —  Move by SoftBank-owned chip designer threatens to upend the balance of power in the $700bn semiconductor industry
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.
Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai  —  - Chairman Joe Tsai confirms Apple will use its AI technology  — Alibaba is staging a comeback after years of turbulence
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo  —  Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year.  The company had stopped advertising …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
PlayStation's State of Play event showed that Microsoft might publish more PS5 games in 2025 than Sony does, even as Xbox hardware sales continue to decline
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission  —  Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission  —  The Atlantic, Politico …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts  —  YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind's latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will restore TikTok to the US App Store on Thursday, following a letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi  —  - Companies had removed the app to abide by US legislation  — Trump signed executive order to delay a potential ban … The two companies had removed TikTok …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.15B est., a net loss of $35.5M, and streaming households up 12% YoY to 89.8M; ROKU jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Platform revenue tops $1 billion for the first time, with political ads representing 6% of segment revenue in the quarter
Reuters:
Germany's Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes  —  The German antitrust authority has charged Apple (AAPL.O) with abusing its market power through its app tracking tool …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Texas-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised a $350M Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory and plans a series of pilot programs in 2025  —  embargo moved to thurs...  Apptronik, a Texas-based developer of humanoid robots, announced Wednesday that it's raised $350 million in Series A funding.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers  —  Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Chainalysis:
In 2024, crypto scams received at least $9.9B on-chain, up 40% YoY and likely a record; scams marketplace Huione Guarantee received $376M+ in crypto in 2024  —  The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report  —  In 2024, cryptocurrency scams received at least $9.9 billion on-chain …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Anthropic has developed a hybrid AI model that combines traditional LLM capabilities with reasoning features and plans to release it in the coming weeks  —  After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital Management and others followed with their own.
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
After Meta laid off 3,600 of its “lowest performers” on February 10, some say they had good performance reviews, and experts say the label is highly subjective  —  - <strong>Meta said it was cutting low performers in its most recent round of cuts.  However, some staffers and experts have questioned the company's methods.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple  —  Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally's controversial and confidential order.

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Tim Wu / New York Times:
WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition

Tyler Falk / Current:
The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations

Reporters Without Borders:
At least 53 of the 67 journalists killed in the past 12 months were victims of war or criminal networks; 503 journalists are detained globally, 121 in China

More News

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 138% YoY to $2.27B, vs. $1.88B est., transaction revenue up 194% to $1.56B, vs. $1.29B est., and trading volume up 185% to $439B
Dan Primack / Axios:
Slow Ventures raised $60M+ for a fund to invest in creators who are authorities on niche areas like automotive; the fund appears to be the first of its kind
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global
The Markup:
Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
More: Engadget and Mashable
Bluesky: @stephrwolf.  Mastodon: @themarkup@mastodon ….  X: @aaron_glantz.  Forums: r/Denver and Beehaw

Earlier Picks

Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press
Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World:
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit
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