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March 10, 2025, 6:00 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with consistent design, simpler navigation, more  —  Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone …
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.
Bloomberg:
X experiences intermittent outages globally, beginning early on March 10; Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack”  —  - X stopped working Monday for thousands of users globally  — Musk blamed attack on large, coordinated group or country  —  Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions …
Reuters:
Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales  —  EU antitrust regulators are expected to hand out modest fines to Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) for allegedly breaching …
Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance:
Tech stocks led a broad sell-off; the Nasdaq fell 4%, with AAPL dropping by 4.9%, META by 4.4%, NVDA by 5.1%, GOOG by 4.4%, HOOD by 19.8%, and RDDT by 19.9%  —  The “Magnificent Seven” stocks were at the center of another sell-off hitting markets Monday.  —  Shares of Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla …
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations  —  It's easy to bypass steps that voice cloning services have taken to prevent nonconsensual voice cloning, according to the report.
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: CoreWeave has signed a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI that will give OpenAI a stake in the cloud computing provider ahead of its IPO  —  CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI …
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg:
Real estate platform Rocket plans to buy Redfin, a home search service and adtech brokerage, for $1.75B, or $12.50/share, closing as soon as Q2; RKT drops 15%+  —  The Detroit-based financial technology group will pay $12.50 for every Redfin share in an all-stock transaction.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft is working on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, slated for later in 2025, and successors to the Xbox Series X|S, tentatively slated for 2027  —  Microsoft's first full foray into PC gaming handhelds begins with a partner device set to launch later this year, with its own Xbox Series X|

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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Chris Aronson, ex-president of domestic theatrical distribution at Paramount, sues the company, claiming breach of contract and age discrimination

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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
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

Earlier Picks

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:
Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reasoning LLM, trained in four weeks with support from Nvidia via its Taiwan-based supercomputer and consulting
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
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
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
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
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