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March 10, 2025, 1:15 PM

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NBC News:
Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017  —  The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook's impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved keyboard, better screen, performance, and multitasking than the base iPad, but no Face ID and can get expensive  —  The new iPad Air remains a great tablet, albeit one that's extremely similar to the last few models.
Charles Capel / Bloomberg:
X experiences intermittent outages globally, beginning early on March 10  —  Social media platform X experienced intermittent outages, with users across the globe saying they could not access the service.  —  X wouldn't load for users in the US, UK, France and India at two points early Monday …
Reuters:
President Trump says “we're dealing with four different groups” for the sale of TikTok; Trump signed an EO on January 20 to delay the TikTok ban by 75 days  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale …
Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge:
Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support  —  I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Some early Manus users say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience  —  Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert.
Craig S. Smith / Forbes:
Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release  —  In industries from finance to retail, companies are seeking artificial-intelligence skills when looking for technology staff
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Bloomberg:
Sources: workflow automation company ServiceNow nears an agreement to buy enterprise AI assistant company Moveworks in a deal that could value Moveworks at ~$3B  —  - Transaction could value Moveworks at close to $3 billion  — ServiceNow has been pushing into generative AI products
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf says current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs  —  AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology's potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences.

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