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March 28, 2025, 9:30 AM

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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  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete  —  The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal.  —  The White House …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
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 …
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.
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
Chris Welch / The Verge:
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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
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  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.  Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
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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