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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen  —  No surprises, but a lower $999 entry-level price is welcome.  —  At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1 …
Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware:
Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive  —  Apple's new Mac Studio doesn't look different on the outside, but there are plenty of performance upgrades under the hood
Reuters:
Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip, a key milestone as it moves to design more of its own silicon and reduce its reliance on Nvidia  —  Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems …
Columbia Journalism Review:
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly  —  We Compared Eight AI Search Engines.  They're All Bad at Citing News.  —  AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax”  —  TikTok's new wind down feature will interrupt a teen's feed if they're using the app after 10PM.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B, its largest-ever acquisition, in a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025  —  ServiceNow (NOW.N) said on Monday it would buy AI firm Moveworks for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, marking the software maker's …
New York Times:
Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program  —  The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts  —  Sony's advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games.
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Coinbase registers with India's FIU and plans to roll out its retail trading platform in India later in 2025, its second attempt to expand in the country  —  - Coinbase tried to launch in India in 2022 but drew pushback  — The firm is now returning after registering with the FIU
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge, up 10x in 2024 per CoinGecko, vaulting it to the top tier of exchanges, as rivals question its growth  —  During the 2022 Super Bowl, the trading site Crypto.com aired the most notorious TV commercial in the short history of the crypto industry.
Reuters:
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access  —  India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the highly anticipated launch …
Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:
Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more  —  The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD/Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: great gaming and general performance and AMD removed overclocking limitations, but a niche CPU, some software issues, and pricey  —  Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good.  —  Even three years later, AMD's high-end X3D-series processors still …
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:
Sources: VCs with “locked” tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation  —  - Venture funds have accumulated large sums of locked tokens  — Firms including Wintermute help investors hedge their holdings

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health files for a US IPO, and reports revenue of $390M in 2024, up from $293M in 2023, and a net loss of $11.9M
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users
New York Times:
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Asana announces CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring, and reports Q4 sales rose 10% YoY to $188.3M, in line with estimates; ASAN drops 25%+
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with a consistent design and simpler navigation
Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance:
Tech stocks led a broad sell-off: the Nasdaq fell 4%, its sharpest one-day decline since Sept. 2022, with NVDA down 5%, AAPL down 5%, META down 4%, GOOG down 4%
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