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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $599+ 11-inch and $799+ 13-inch iPad Air with M3, in four colors, and debuts a $269+ Magic Keyboard with function keys and a larger trackpad — Only a year after the last Air, Apple is updating the middle of its tablet lineup once again. … The iPad Air is a tricky tablet.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils the 11th-generation iPad, adding an A16 Bionic chip and starting at 128GB of storage for the same $349, and offers a 256GB and a new 512GB option — Apple today announced the 11th-generation iPad, now featuring the A16 Bionic chip and more storage.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal email: Amazon has formed a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Source: Amazon is building a “hybrid reasoning” AI model, slated for a June 2025 launch under the Nova brand, hoping it can be more price-efficient than rivals — - Amazon plans to launch a new AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities. — The model aims to offer hybrid reasoning …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to access users' encrypted data, even of non-UK users — iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December over fraud allegations — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features — There are new features for Android and Pixel phones, including live location sharing in the Find My app.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI unveils NextGenAI, a consortium of research institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, and commits $50M in compute, API access, and research grants — OpenAI on Monday announced a consortium, NextGenAI, focused on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities.| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual predictions — Google might finally be realizing its vision of truly smart contextual assistant. — • — •
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: great at 1440p but barely faster than the 4070 Super, not “4090 performance at $549”, and disproportionately high power usage — It's not all bad news, but in a lot of ways this is barely an upgrade. — “4090 performance at $549.”
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches Waymo rides in Austin, where Waymo operates within 37 square miles including Hyde Park and Downtown; in August 2024, Waymo had ~700 vehicles total — Residents of the Texas capital can now hail a driverless Waymo vehicle — as long as they're within the 37-square-mile service area.
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US Commerce Dept. plans changes to Biden's $42.5B broadband grant program, to let states award more funds to satellite-internet providers like Starlink — Agency plans changes that will make Elon Musk's satellite-internet service eligible for more rural broadband funding
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| Reuters: |
Sources: China plans to issue guidance as soon as this month to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time — China plans to issue guidance to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time, two sources briefed on the matter said … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Assured, whose AI tools automate insurance claims, raised equity funding in a round with Iconiq and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the company at about $1B — Assured Insurance Technologies Inc., a startup focused on automating insurance claims using artificial intelligence …
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.06B, vs. $1.03B est., a $92.3M net loss, and issues disappointing earnings guidance; CRWD drops 8%+ after hours — Crowdstrike shares dropped nearly 9% in extended trading on Tuesday after the cybersecurity software provider issued disappointing earnings guidance.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns — Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump's Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company …
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: President Trump is cutting ~40% of staff in the US government office responsible for the $52B CHIPS Act, including ~40 who are considered probationary — The US government office responsible for a marquee $52 billion chip subsidy program will lose about two-fifths of its staff …
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
TSMC's US deal is a win-win; dropping one advanced node fab protects TSMC's interests, while an advanced packaging plant and R&D center helps the US' chip push — TSMC's newly announced US investment plan, unveiled on March 4, 2025, differs from the original by adding $100 billion …
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