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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023  —  After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down.  Microsoft, which acquired the messaging …
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Nico Grant / New York Times:
Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity”  —  The tech giant's co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more …
Martin Matishak / The Record:
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping yet another case against an American crypto company …
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The SEC files to dismiss its 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase that accused the exchange of flouting SEC rules and facilitating trading in unregistered securities
Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch:
Intel delays the opening of its first Ohio chip factory to 2030 due to financial struggles; the $28B project was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025  —  Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again, this time by several years.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI  —  Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser's new Terms of Use, which critics have called …
The Verge:
AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6  —  AMD is finally ready to compete with Nvidia's new RTX 50-series GPUs. … AMD's answer to Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs is arriving next week …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Filings: CFPB employees say the agency's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it first US VC firm to go public  —  No bankers, timetable, etc.  — Instead, General Catalyst is in rapid expansion mode — trying to build the sort of diversified, fee-generating asset base …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases Copilot for Mac, including a shortcut command to open the app, in the US, UK, and Canada, and adds a split screen mode to the iPad version  —  The Copilot app on iPhone and iPad is also being improved today. … Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump says that he will attend this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, marking the first time he will do so as president

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
David Ellison says Paramount plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streamer with 200M+ subscribers, but will let HBO “operate with independence”

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox News expects CNN under the Ellisons to be a “strong competitor”, but adds that “running news is hard”

More News

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products
Justin Dawes / Skift:
Cross-border payments company Flywire acquires Sertifi, which helps hotels streamline events contracting, group bookings, and related payments, for $330M

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Autodesk plans to cut about 1,350 employees, or ~9% of its workforce, as part of a focus on profitability following pressure from activist fund Starboard Value
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
Documents: Tesla applied late last year for a transportation permit in California that suggests it's working to launch a ride-hailing business in the near term
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
IBM says it has completed its $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition, confirming that the US FTC quietly cleared the deal just before the UK CMA's approval on February 25
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws
The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors
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