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Maggie Miller / Politico:
DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack  —  The app had been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past.  —  Director of National Intelligence …
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
The US adds export restrictions to 80 organizations, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and clients of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD  —  The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.
Bloomberg:
TD Cowen: Microsoft walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that had been set to consume 2 gigawatts, a sign of AI computing oversupply  —  The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US …
Reuters:
Sources: Italy hands tax demands to Meta, X, and LinkedIn in the last step in its VAT case, seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn  —  Italy has handed tax demands to Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn in the last formal step in an unprecedented VAT claim …
Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
Sources: Fidelity Investments is in the advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, managed by its digital assets arm; Trump pledged to back USD stablecoins  —  Asset manager is in advanced stages of testing token as the Trump administration prepares to overhaul crypto oversight
Stanley Widianto / Reuters:
Apple says the iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, after Jakarta lifted a sales ban following Apple's $300M+ investment plan  —  Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, it said on Wednesday, after Jakarta lifted a ban …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils AI “deep reasoning” agents for 365 Copilot: Researcher, based on OpenAI's deep research model, and Analyst, based on o3-mini, coming in April  —  Multi-step reasoning AI is coming to Microsoft Copilot. … After Google and OpenAI offered up AI news on Tuesday …
Financial Times:
IPO filings: CoreWeave, set to launch a $32B IPO on March 28, violated key terms of a $7.6B Blackstone loan in 2024, triggering a series of technical defaults  —  US cloud company seeking blockbuster $32bn IPO had to remedy serious administrative errors in December
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude  —  Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon rolls out AI tool Interests, which checks for new inventory by interests, price limits, and preferences, to US users, and is testing chatbot Health AI  —  Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says Shorts views will now be counted each time a video starts to play or replay, rather than only after being watched for a certain number of seconds  —  YouTube is changing how it counts views on YouTube Shorts to give creators a deeper understanding of how their short-form content is performing …
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
xAI's Grok AI chatbot is now integrated with Telegram for Telegram Premium users, marking Grok's first big expansion beyond X  —  X is looking to expand the reach of its Grok chatbot, by partnering with messaging app Telegram on a new integration.  —  So now, if you're subscribed …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill requiring Apple's and Google's mobile app stores to verify user ages and require parental consent for minors to use some apps  —  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Wednesday signed a bill that requires Apple and Google's mobile app stores to verify user ages …
Will Knight / Wired:
Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach that lets its customers boost LLM performance without the need for clean labeled data  —  Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don't have squeaky clean data.
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Developers say aggressive AI crawlers are overwhelming open-source infrastructure; LibreNews: up to 97% of some projects' traffic comes from AI companies' bots  —  Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Gemini 2.5 Pro hands-on: a very strong model with 1M input tokens, 64K output tokens, a January 2025 knowledge cut-off, and very, very impressive coding skills  —  There's a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series.  Google call it “a thinking model …

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Financial Times:
Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey drops his £79M libel lawsuit against the Financial Times, after FT said 15 women were willing to testify in court against him

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Sources: Nexstar has begun directing stations to fill local newscasts with segments from Nexstar's NewsNation instead of national networks' content like NBC's

Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Source: The Athletic is investigating reporter Dianna Russini's explanation about photos of her with NFL coach Mike Vrabel and “reviewing her coverage”

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Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World:
USCIS data shows Amazon got the most H-1B visas each year from 2020 to 2024; Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple ranked in the top 10 in 2024
TechCrunch:
Leaked email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, after cutting ~1,000 roles in January 2024
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
In an addendum to the GPT-4o System Card, OpenAI says it is “not blocking the capability to generate adult public figures” and that public figures can opt out
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9
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