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Hayden Field / CNBC:
In a proposal for the 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 …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US ban “PRC-produced equipment and models that violate user privacy and create security risks”  —  In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: President Trump's family representatives have held talks to take a 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
Bloomberg:
Sources: President Trump's World Liberty Financial has discussed doing business with Binance, including the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, an experimental feature for Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers on the web  —  If you enable personalization, Gemini will reference your search history to ‘enhance’ some of its responses.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Google says Gemini users can now try Deep Research for free in 45+ languages and the tool is now powered by its Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model
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.
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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  —  Takeaways - We will shortly begin testing Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the United States.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps
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 …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Flock Safety, maker of computer vision-enabled video surveillance tech for police and businesses, raised $275M at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4.8B a year ago  —  Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation.
Wall Street Journal:
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
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, an early investor in SMIC who has extensive ties to China and gained fame by helping turn around Cadence Design Systems  —  The semiconductor veteran is set to take the helm of the once-venerated U.S. chip maker  —  Lip-Bu Tan, who is set …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will work to make Intel a top foundry, signaling he'll stick with the costly plan that contributed to Pat Gelsinger's ouster

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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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
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
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