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Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default — Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi started a project to evaluate external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising — Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …
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The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program — The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
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| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others — Elon Musk's xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires for the group; Nat Friedman will “partner” with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group — Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …
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| Ethan Baron / SiliconValley.com: |
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer for the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing a “massive volume” of its trade secrets to take to Snap — Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time — Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80+ people to get remote jobs at 100+ US firms, using “laptop farms” in the US — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea's operations … | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it has 1M+ robots in its warehouses, the most it's ever had and near the count of human workers, with ~75% of global deliveries assisted by robotics — The e-commerce giant now counts more than one million of the machines at its facilities — | Photographs and Videos by Desiree Rios for WSJ
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients — Stablecoin firm Circle (CRCL.N) is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S., a major move after its blockbuster IPO valued …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users, asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove their case — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will on Tuesday warn EU antitrust regulators and its critics that landmark European Union rules aimed … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Genesis AI, which generates synthetic data for training an AI model meant to power robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla — Genesis AI, a startup that aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth …
Bluesky: @prietschka
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models and some of its model reasoning tech to incentivize the use of its other products, like its Ascend AI chips — Huawei has open-sourced two of its artificial intelligence models — a move tech experts say will help the U.S.-blacklisted firm continue … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 — Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite … | Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market — Apple (AAPL.O) must face the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the U.S. smartphone market, a judge ruled on Monday.
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Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product — Elon Musk's X has hired entrepreneur Nikita Bier as the platform's new head of product, giving Bier a senior role atop one of the most widely used social apps in the world.
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