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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says its V3 and R1 models' cost of inferencing relative to sales during a 24-hour-period on February 28 put “theoretical” profit margins at 545%  —  Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” …
Axios:
President Trump plans to speak at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on March 7, to be chaired by David Sacks, amid a global sell-off in cryptocurrencies  —  - The Trump family launched the Official Trump (TRUMP) and Melania Meme (MELANIA) coins Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 …
Om Malik / On my Om:
Skype was an early harbinger of technology as culture, and its demise is a good lesson in how ineffective middle management can destroy great acquisitions  —  Microsoft is shutting down Skype.  It will go offline in May 2025. … It makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5, 2025, and directs users to migrate their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in February 2023
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Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China instructs its top AI leaders to avoid visiting the US over fears they could divulge confidential info or be detained and used as bargaining chips  —  Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash
More: WinBuzzer and Reuters
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Alphabet's X lab moonshot project Taara unveils a silicon photonic chip that can deliver high-speed internet through the air using light instead of radio waves  —  The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses  —  Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe's next act: AI glasses that carry a conversation. … I tell Amazon's Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day Android vulnerabilities developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbian authorities to unlock phones  —  Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.
The Information:
Source: SoftBank plans to borrow $16B to invest in AI, and might borrow another $8B in early 2026, which could strain its already debt-heavy balance sheet  —  The biggest risk-taker in tech investing is back to his old playbook, loading up on debt to fund his latest obsession: artificial intelligence.
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M+ investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust, so far  —  His Sensei Ag company hasn't succeeded in boosting output and nutrition in its greenhouses with AI, robotics and software

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

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Recent incidents indicate the US no longer characterizes Russia as a cyber threat; source: CISA analysts were told not to follow or report on Russian threats
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