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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 …
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Threads: @craigmod. X: @joannastern, @vadimyuryev, @caro_milanesi, @patrick_orourke, and @trustlessstate. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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
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| Dave2D on YouTube: |
Review of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory: opens up new workflows on a ~$10K desktop, like running a quantized version of DeepSeek R1 671B — My review of Apple Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra with Gaming benchmarks and Deepseek R1 If you'd like to support the channel, consider a Dave2D membership by ...| Reuters: |
Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip and is working with TSMC to produce it, as part of a long-term plan to lower infrastructure costs — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration — OpenAI's new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.
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| Reuters: |
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models — China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems, a Canadian maker of eye-tracking tech, for $115M, including $15M in performance-based payments — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems Inc., a maker of eye-tracking technology, part of a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses.| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's “not sure yet how/when it will get released” — we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
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| New York Times: |
Court filings: Google owns a 14% stake in Anthropic but holds no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights; it aims to invest $750M more in September — The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA — President Trump has nominated Sean Plankey, a veteran cyber official from his first administration, to run the lead U.S. cyber agency, according to a list of nominations sent to Congress.| The Information: |
Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent — Anthropic's year is off to a good start. — Its annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue multiplied by 12 …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale — The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry — Slater, a longtime Washington lawyer, has been particularly critical of power in the tech industry.
More: Axios, The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CCIA
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| Reuters: |
India's Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, subject to Starlink obtaining government approval to begin operations — India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the highly anticipated launch …
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3% — - The global smartwatch market fell 7% in 2024, the first ever decline in the overall market. — Apple retained its top position … | 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” — Now TikTok's Family Pairing feature will enable parents to lock the app during certain times.
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US buy up to 1M BTC — Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate Tuesday that would authorize the U.S. government to buy …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network — The fundraising was completed using PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and was led by Paradigm. — What to know:
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| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Lego CEO Niels Christiansen says the toymaker plans to make video games in-house, after 2024 revenue rose 13% YoY to ~$10B; its Fortnite tie-up has 87M players — Danish toymaker beefs up digital capabilities after success with externally developed games — Lego is building up its capability … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
After tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft made huge bets on AI, the gadget boom that started with the launch of Alexa in 2014 has largely fizzled — Amazon and Microsoft have pulled back on hardware, roiling the product design scene in Seattle and beyond. … Amazon isn't unusual in this regard.| 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 … | 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.| 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
More: Cryptopolitan
| 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 …
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