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Sources: Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell will take over Siri, which is being removed from AI head John Giannandrea; Rockwell will report to Craig Federighi — Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple
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| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Microsoft chose not to exercise a ~$12B option to buy more data center capacity from CoreWeave; OpenAI snapped up the contract on March 10 — The Scoop — Microsoft chose not to exercise a nearly $12 billion option to buy more data-center capacity from CoreWeave …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web, using AI to show the most relevant results instead of showing them in chronological order — Google is introducing “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web that leverages “AI to show you the most relevant results, faster.”| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC says proof-of-work crypto mining doesn't trigger federal securities laws and mining operators do not need to register their transactions with the SEC — In a staff statement published Thursday, the SEC said that both solo mining and mining pool operations would fail the first prong of the Howey Test.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon — Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.
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| Bloomberg: |
European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane says Europe needs a digital euro to avoid rising stablecoin risks and reduce reliance on US payment firms — Europe needs a digital currency to safeguard against threats from new forms of money like stablecoins, and reduce reliance …
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| The Guardian: |
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods — Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API — OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
At Nvidia's Quantum Day, Jensen Huang walked back his January comments that cast doubt on the timeline for useful quantum computing and caused a stock selloff — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers would hit the market in the next 15 years.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Threads rolls out new features: ability to set following feed or any custom feed as the default, limit post replies to followers, a better video player, more — Threads will also let you limit replies to just followers and add topics to your bio. … Meta is finally allowing Threads users …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; source: Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut — Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company's video-streaming service …
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Forums: r/InvasionAppleTV, r/apple, r/movies, r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M — The company has discussed raising as much as $500 million to $1 billion in the round, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.| Gaurav Bagur / The Ken: |
Elara Capital report: Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart are generating $350M to $400M in annualized ad revenue, or ~50% of Amazon India's FY 2024 ad revenue — Quick commerce is a money pit. If you take Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal at his word, the sector is torching Rs 5,000 crore ($580 million) every quarter.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Rerun, which is building a data stack for “Physical AI” like robots and drones, raised a $17M seed, bringing its total funding to $20.2M — As generative AI moves increasingly into the physical world through robotics, vehicles, and drones, the need to map cloud-based AIs …
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| Kara Fellows / CBS News: |
Google says it uncovered 10K+ illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Maps and files a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud — Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced … | Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models — Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. — When employees at meta started developing …
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Forums: r/Piracy, r/books, and r/technology
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Tencent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek, and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its ad and gaming businesses — Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it| Counterpoint Research: |
Shipments of India-manufactured smartphones grew 6% YoY in 2024, with Samsung and Apple accounting for ~94% of exports; Samsung's India exports grew 13% YoY — - Samsung retained its position as the top smartphone manufacturer in India in 2024, registering a growth of 7% YoY driven by a 13% YoY increase in its exports.
More: The Economic Times, The Hindu, SamMobile, SammyGuru, Times of India, and The Hindu BusinessLine. X: @counterpointtr
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Evroc, which plans to build hyperscale data centers in Europe and an array of cloud services, raised a $55M Series A from Blisce and others — A Swedish startup aiming to build a hyperscale cloud company in Europe has raised €50.6 million ($55 million) in Series A funding.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Chinese AI startup Manycore, which develops spatial design software, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, and reported a $58.3M loss from Q1 to Q3 2024 — China's AI startup Manycore Tech Inc. is keen to grow its global presence, despite tensions between Washington and Beijing presenting … Sponsor Posts
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