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France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers — France's antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which gets support for eight more languages, Ambient Music via Control Center, more — Apple today released iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the fourth major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating system updates …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app that features Apple-curated media, with “new content released regularly”, and more — Alongside iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, Apple is also rolling out visionOS 2.4 for Apple Vision Pro users today.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK — Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions.| Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility — Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders — The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over expanding satellite cellphone services; Apple discussed linking iPhones to SpaceX satellites — The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8's American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world's largest miner — A business led by two of the president's sons will invest in American Bitcoin, a new mining company controlled by Hut 8
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Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in beta, announces a $39 per month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199 per month Pro tier — The Beijing-based startup behind Manus has set up a $39-per-month tier and a $199 upgraded option, the latter in line with OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro.
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe — TAIPEI — U.S. contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan's No. 2 chipmaker … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes — Substack continues to double down on video amid TikTok's uncertain future in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it's rolling out a scrollable video feed in its app … | TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation — Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers — Chip giant CEO Lisa Su says AI is still in its ‘very early stages’ as the company revs up competition with Nvidia
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer — Alexa+, Amazon's AI-enhanced voice assistant, will launch to some customers Monday, though not every feature will be available right away
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, and The Verge
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TSMC says its Kaohsiung plant in Taiwan is set to begin 2nm wafer volume production in H2 2025, reaffirming its commitment to Taiwan during its US expansion — TSMC (2330.TW) said on Monday that its newly built domestic fab would add 7,000 tech jobs to the island's economy and that it will continue …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42 — G42 also planned to buy more than 22 million shares in Cerebras. The Sunnyvale, California-based company had said the arrangement … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more — AI startup Runway on Monday released what it claims is one of the highest-fidelity AI-powered video generators yet.
More: OpenAI, The Information, and Bloomberg
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M — Chip startup Retym has raised $75 million this year as part of $180 million in total funding the company is using to pursue networking chips …
More: TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Retym, eeNews Europe, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Yahoo Finance
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its devices, without disclosing the terms — The agreement covers the use of Nokia video technologies in Amazon's streaming services and devices, resolving all patent litigation globally … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem — - PumpSwap, the DEX recently launched by memecoin platform Pump.fun, has processed $2.43 billion in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days …
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