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| 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 good acquisitions — Microsoft is shutting down Skype. It will go offline in May 2025. … It makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised.
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| Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: |
The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees — The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning.
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LinkedIn: Brian Krebs, Dawn Wright, PhD, and Hillary Hartley
Forums: Hacker News, r/fednews, r/Ohio, and r/centrist
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027 — Also: An inside look at Tim Cook's trade with President Donald Trump, the iPad Air sees shortages ahead of a pending refresh …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, TechRadar, and Benzinga
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy A56, A36, and A26 smartphones with new AI image editing features and support for up to six years of Android OS and security upgrades — The new line of A-series devices has slightly larger screens and a bigger emphasis on AI image editing tools.
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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” …
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LinkedIn: Sumit Gupta and Azeem Azhar
| Financial Times: |
DeepSeek, OpenAI, and others building smaller, powerful models quickly and cheaply using “distillation” raises questions about LLMs' first-mover advantage — DeepSeek used technique to create smaller powerful models based on the technology of competitors such as Meta
Forums: r/artificial
| Aaron Mok / The Guardian: |
Some parents are teaching their children how to use AI chatbots so they are prepared to deploy the tools responsibly as personal assistants when they are older — As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond
More: Business Insider and Axios
| Azeem Azhar / Bloomberg: |
How AI, which makes intelligence ubiquitous and practically free, could upend the economy, which is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive — The economy is built on the idea that expertise is scarce and expensive. AI is about to make it abundant and practically free.| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
A look at China's “Fantastic Four”, the founders of DeepSeek, Unitree, ByteDance, and DJI, who are grouped together partly because they were educated in China — China's new generation of tech tsars were born after the country began its ‘reform and opening up’ phase
More: Tech in Asia
| 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 …
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| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
The Ethereum Foundation selects two new co-executive directors, and Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi becomes president, following calls for new leadership — Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak will be the new co-executive directors, as Aya Miyaguchi transitions into the organization's President.
More: Ethereum Foundation Blog, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoNinjas, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, The Block, and Blockchain.News
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethereum
| Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal: |
How tech companies moving to or investing in Texas, attracted by lower taxes and fewer regulations on land use and labor, are transforming the state's economy — Apple is latest to remake state's economy, but some headwinds loom — Texas notched another technology win this week when Apple … Sponsor Posts
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