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Bloomberg:
Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10%  —  Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares jumped as much as 10% after the video game maker said it will carve out a unit including Assassin's Creed …
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month
CNBC:
CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order  —  CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company's IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed.
Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples:
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”  —  Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits
Steven Levy / Wired:
Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more  —  The brother goes on vision quests.  The sister is a former English major.  Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic …
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges  —  - Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company.  — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October …
Financial Times:
Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump  —  Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences  —  A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech  —  Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers …
Sheon Han / Wired:
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints  —  Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv.  Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go.

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CNBC:
James Cameron blasts Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, in a letter to Senator Mike Lee, calling it “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business”

James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
After a backlash, AMC opts out of screening an AI short film during its pre-show, programmed by ad company Screenvision, before feature films

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Substack announces new tools to help writers use Polymarket data and adds Polymarket to its sponsorship pilot, prompting questions from some journalists

More News

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15

Earlier Picks

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans
Isabella Ward / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses
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