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March 25, 2025, 10:20 AM

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info  —  U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models  —  Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter.  The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate  —  A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate …
Danny Park / The Block:
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU  —  - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest version of its enormous DeepSeek v3 model; the previous DeepSeek v3 had a custom license  —  deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model, baking the release date into the name DeepSeek-V3-0324.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure over US privacy fears under Trump; two European cloud providers say it is driving interest  —  Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US.
Reuters:
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO  —  South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan  —  It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs.  —  Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs …
More: TechInsights
TechCrunch:
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers  —  Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg:
eToro files for an IPO, seeking to list as ETOR on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, ~96% of which was from cryptoassets, and a $192M net income  —  The trading and investment platform had $12.6 billion in total revenue in 2024, with net income of $192 million …
Reuters:
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras' IPO, in limbo for months, is delayed while Trump fills key roles and CFIUS reviews Abu Dhabi-based G42's $335M investment  —  Cerebras Systems executives were hoping the Trump administration would wave through a national security review that has left …
More: CIO.com
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at Apple's strategy missteps with TV+, including trying to rival Netflix by building a platform from scratch and using TV+ to boost device sales  —  “Apple is Losing Over $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Service” - the literal headline number in this report about Apple TV+ by The Information looks scary.

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