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Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him — Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
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Forums: r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/neoliberal, r/news, r/politics, r/WallStreetBetsCrypto, and r/CryptoCurrency
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Copilot for Gaming, available through the Xbox mobile app initially for Xbox Insiders and designed to work as a companion or gaming coach — Microsoft is launching a Copilot in gaming with Xbox testers next month. … Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, available as an experimental feature to Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers — If you enable personalization, Gemini will reference your search history to ‘enhance’ some of its responses.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
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X: @officiallogank and @film_girl
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material” — After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
More: The Register, OpenAI, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Neowin, Axios, Fox Business, The Wrap, and WinBuzzer
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI releases a 15-page set of policy suggestions for the White House, arguing that hundreds of AI bills pending across the US risk undercutting US progress — OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to help shield artificial intelligence companies from a growing number of proposed state regulations …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Meta: |
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures — https://about.fb.com/wp-content/ uploads/2025/03/Community-Notes-Launch- Date-Announcement_Header.mp4 — Takeaways| Brooke Singman / Fox News: |
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products — In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
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| Eric Geller / Wired: |
Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency — Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they're struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses …
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| BBC: |
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences — Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it …
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Sources: Elon Musk visited the NSA and discussed staff reductions and operations with its leadership, a week after saying the agency needs an overhaul — Meeting between Musk and the National Security Agency's leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google adds new developer tools and programs to simplify PC game porting to Android and improves Vulkan support on Android, ahead of the GDC — Google is improving Vulkan support on Android and introducing new tools and programs to simplify PC game porting| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will stick with the costly foundry plan, which led to Pat Gelsinger's ouster, to make Intel “a world-class products company” — Incoming Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan is signaling that he'll stick with his predecessor's plan …
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LinkedIn: Jeff Dahncke and Nikhil Shirali
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model for agentic enterprise tasks, with a context length of 256K tokens and requiring just two A100s or H100s — Canadian AI startup Cohere — co-founded by one of the authors of the original Transformer paper that kickstarted the large language model …
More: Cohere, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, and BetaKit
X: @alexrs95, @weiyinko_ml, @cohere, @cohere, and @meoramer1
LinkedIn: David Ferris, Dan Potts, and Nicolás Morales
| The Information: |
Sources: Oracle is a leading contender to help run TikTok US; ByteDance management prefers Oracle but wants to retain a hands-on role with TikTok's operations — Oracle has emerged as a leading contender to help run TikTok as part of a deal President Donald Trump is orchestrating to satisfy …
More: TechCrunch, New York Post, Sherwood News, and TipRanks Financial
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X: @jessicalessin and @jingyanghk
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning a new AirPods feature as part of iOS 19 that will enable live-translation of in-person conversations — Apple Inc. is planning a new AirPods feature that allows the earbuds to live-translate an in-person conversation into another language, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected — An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
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| The Block: |
Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Iron, an API-focused stablecoin infrastructure company, a source says in a “nine-figure” deal — - The acquisition is comparable to Stripe's acquisition of the stablecoin platform Bridge, and MoonPay's financial services will now include enterprise-grade stablecoin offerings.
More: CNBC, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Bankless, MoonPay, and Cointelegraph
| Nick Huber / Financial Times: |
A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024 — The infrastructure to help young companies grow in the UK is varied and well established — If 2023 was the year of downturn … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia is expected to announce new GPUs, named after Vera Rubin, the female scientist who discovered dark matter, on March 18 at its annual GTC conference — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to reveal details about Rubin, the chipmaker's next AI graphics processor, on Tuesday at the company's annual GTC conference.
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