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| 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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.”
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| 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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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q4 revenue up 20% to $12.21B, vs. $12.1B est., net profit up 180% YoY to $858M, even as it faces stiff competition — Meituan has been facing stiff competition in its home market — Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan reported a near tripling … | Gary Rivlin / Bloomberg: |
A book excerpt from AI Valley details the 2024 mass defection of staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving but faced scaling challenges, to Microsoft — An excerpt from AI Valley tells the story of why the staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving, defected en masse to Microsoft in 2024.| 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
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Micron Q2: revenue up 38% YoY to $8.05B vs. $7.89B est., net income up 99% to $1.58B, says data center revenue tripled, offers better-than-expected Q3 guidance — Micron shares popped 6% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates … | Financial Times: |
A profile of Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport, who served in Israel's elite cyber intelligence unit 8200; sources say Wiz was on track to surpass $1B of ARR in 2025 — Cybersecurity start-up's fast-moving CEO agrees higher sale price after turning down Alphabet's $23bn offer last summer
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| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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