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| Apple: |
Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage — The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage
More: Daring Fireball, Apple on YouTube, MacRumors, MacStories, Bloomberg, Michael Tsai, Ars Technica, The Information, PYMNTS.com, ZDNET, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, iClarified, MacTech.com, CNBC, Neowin, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Mac Observer, TechEBlog, PCMag, VideoCardz.com, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Fortune India, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Rolling Out, Moneycontrol, iPhone in Canada, Cult of Mac, and PetaPixel
X: @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, @rjonesy, @leyeconnect, @joshkale, @markgurman, @awnihannun, @neilcybart, @avstorm, @classicii_mrmac, @markgurman, @gregjoz, @lukemiani, @mkbhd, @samsheffer, @nandoprince93, @ijustine, @brandonbutch, @vadimyuryev, @brandonbutch, @markgurman, @avstorm, @thekitze, @markgurman, @michaelgofman, and @elder_plinius. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Bluesky: @tcarmody
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/mac, r/apple, and r/macbookpro
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and doubling base storage to 512GB, shipping from March 11 — Apple has officially announced the new M5 MacBook Air. While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes with double …
More: Apple, Thurrott, MacRumors, CNET, Apple on YouTube, TechEBlog, OS X Daily, The Next Web, Digit, iClarified, The Mac Observer, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Expert Reviews, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Firstpost, Reuters, The Apple Post, Mashable, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Moneycontrol, and The Shortcut
X: @mkbhd, @nathievr, @segalink, @mweinbach, @alz_zyd_, @joannastern, @raywongy, @leakerapple, and @adrianweckler. LinkedIn: Christy Jones
Forums: r/macgaming, r/macbook, r/apple, r/technology, and r/hardware
| Apple: |
Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits — Studio Display XDR is the world's best pro display, featuring a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display with a mini-LED backlight …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacStories, MacRumors, Neowin, Curb Cuts, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Appleosophy, TidBITS, MobileSyrup, Business Today, The Mac Observer, Business Standard, AppleInsider, Trusted Reviews, iClarified, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, The Verge, MacTech.com, T3, Imaging Resource, The Shortcut, Mashable, VideoCardz.com, Engadget, TechRadar, Geeky Gadgets, Moneycontrol, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, MacTrast, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, Digital Trends, PCMag, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, MacRumors, The Apple Post, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, and FlatpanelsHD
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LinkedIn: Brad Ford, Antoine Rosset, Scott Joyce, and Lance Lin. Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/HiDPI_monitors, r/apple, r/macbookpro, r/Monitors, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple unveils the M5 Pro and M5 Max, offering a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, a next-generation up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and more — Built using the new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, M5 Pro and M5 Max feature an advanced CPU, a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerators …
More: The Register, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Six Colors, MacRumors, TidBITS, Michael Tsai, The Verge, The Economic Times, iClarified, The Mac Observer, iDrop News, Wired, MobileSyrup, The Shortcut, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, PetaPixel, Mashable, Digit, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada, HotHardware, KitGuru, 9to5Mac, Tom's Hardware, Macworld, and Engadget
X: @mkbhd, @aapltree, @vadimyuryev, @_orangera1n, @mweinbach, @mattmoniz, @bengeskin, @mweinbach, @vadimyuryev, @mweinbach, and @vadimyuryev
Forums: r/hardware, r/macbookpro, r/apple, r/MacStudio, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Engadget: |
More: DigiTimes, TechCrunch, Appleosophy, TechRadar, The Hindu BusinessLine, AppleInsider, CNET, Expert Reviews, Six Colors, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, and The Mac Observer
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals” — Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance
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Bluesky: @druce.ai and @kevincollier
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company “shouldn't have rushed” its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and outlined revisions to the agreement.
More: TechCrunch, Techdirt, Futurism, The Guardian, Slate, The Decoder, Observer, UPI, and PCWorld
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @linh.social, @langdongrant, and @wittywebhandle
Forums: r/UnderReportedNews, r/politics, r/BetterOffline, r/news, and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: Bloomberg. X: @valhalla_dev, @scaling01, and @sean_from_earth. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Forums: r/politics
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance, more than doubling its run rate from late last year …
X: @paulg, @hopes_revenge, @thezvi, @sspencer_smb, @menhguin, @samuel_spitz, @matt_hougan, @scaling01, @paulg, @jsevillamol, @benbajarin, @jasonlk, and @deredleritt3r. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave — Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models.
More: VentureBeat. X: @justinlin610, @kxli_2000, @huybery, @jeremyphoward, @scaling01, @cherry_cc12, @wzhao_nlp, @kxli_2000, @yuchenj_uw, @xianbao_qian, @himanshustwts, @chujiezheng, @natolambert, @frontier_foid, @youjiacheng, @bryancsk, @crystalsssup, @tydsh, @altryne, @kevinsxu, @phequals7, and @teortaxestex
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash — Get best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads. … Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, The Decoder, Android Central, Tom's Guide, OnMSFT, The Deep View, Crypto Briefing, MarkTechPost, and The New Stack
X: @koraykv, @scaling01, @googledevs, @_philschmid, @chanduthota, @teksedge, @googleai, @veermasrani, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, @dynamicwebpaige, @altryne, @kimmonismus, @joshwoodward, @googledeepmind, @tulseedoshi, @googlecloudtech, @dasanaike, @artificialanlys, @marmaduke091, @noamshazeer, @mark_k, @google, @jeffdean, @jeffdean, @officiallogank, and @tristanhurleb. LinkedIn: Karl Weinmeister
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users — Today, we're releasing an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid.
More: The Register, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, PCMag, Decrypt, Neowin, Thurrott, and The Decoder
X: @openai, @tszzl, @christinahkim, @iruletheworldmo, @kimmonismus, @mweinbach, @openai, @nickaturley, @tukifromkl, @kimmonismus, @sauers_, @thezvi, and @kareldoostrlnck
Forums: Hacker News, r/just4ochat, r/therapyGPT, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, The New Stack, OpenAI, Digit, 9to5Mac, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @tcarmody, and @paularmstrongtbd
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines — Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, The Keyword, Android Police, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Skift, Droid Life, ZDNET, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, and Thurrott
X: @natlungfy and @mishaalrahman
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts — U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.
More: DL News, Decrypt, The Hill, The Block, Bloomberg, BeInCrypto, Bitcoinist.com, Politico, 77 WABC, and Raw Story
X: @erictrump, @senlummis, @faryarshirzad, @drjstrategy, @chucktodd, @jseyff, @_jikim, @chairmanselig, @nic_carter, @summermersinger, @iampaulgrewal, @brendanpedersen, @ronwhammond, @realpeteyb123, @amitisinvesting, and @alexandergrieve. Bluesky: @metacurity.com. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
| Andre Revilla / Engadget: |
X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure — The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure. — X will suspend creators …
More: 404 Media, Decrypt, Gizmodo, and Social Media Today
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
More: Wired, Gizmodo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
X: @leahlibresco, @adamscochran, and @tysonbrody
Bluesky: @sesmith.lol, @marypcbuk, @josephcox, @tyleraking.com, @cdt.org, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
Forums: r/technology, r/politics, and r/TrueReddit
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages — OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's popular code repository that lets software engineers store … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Audible launches a cheaper, $8.99/month streaming tier in the US, vs. $14.95/month for its premium plan, to rival Spotify; the plan includes ad-free podcasts — - New plan costs $8.99 in US versus $14.95 for premium offering — Offering includes ad-free podcasts available on Wondery+ app| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month — TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.| Chainalysis: |
Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli airstrikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.78B+ — TL;DR — On-chain data shows a sharp increase in activity from major Iranian exchanges in the hours following the February 28 …
More: The Block, Elliptic, Reuters, and Bitcoin Magazine
X: @chainalysis, @tomrobin, @elliptic, and @beehave99
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
More: Amazon Web Services, Business Insider, BleepingComputer, Associated Press, 404 Media, BBC, Reuters, and Bisnow
X: @mudassirsheikha, @beffjezos, @annierpalmer, @astuyve, @karankendre, @dudewhoinvests, @severeengineer, @initjean, @rauchg, @monicalmarks, @nathanlands, @lukolejnik, @autismcapital, @uwu_underground, @dedene, @ns123abc, @catgirlprostate, @daniel_271828, @vxunderground, @hotaisle, @jbillinson, @phl43, @davidpco, @endicottinvests, @naval, @21wire, @initjean, @var_epsilon, @gregosuri, @nixcraft, @cinzia_bianco, @hammer_mt, and @kabiran_. Bluesky: @rodneyabrooks. Forums: r/news
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a “desktop-like multi-window experience” — The Pixel 8 and up will display a desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor.
More: Android Authority, Digital Trends, and Android Developers Blog
Threads: @mishaal_rahman and @shanec.irl
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel unveils its Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release — Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count. … Intel this week formally introduced its Xeon 6+ processors …
More: SiliconANGLE, Intel, HotHardware, Techstrong IT, Wccftech, and VideoCardz.com
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 — The browser is moving from a four-week release cycle to two in September. … Starting in September, Google is moving its Chrome browser …
More: Chrome for Developers, The New Stack, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, Neowin, and Chrome Unboxed. LinkedIn: Mike Torres
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts — New teams will have ‘flat structure’ with up to 50:1 ratio of individual contributors to managers| SvD: |
Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they view private videos from Ray-Ban Meta glasses, like bathroom visits; ex-Meta staff say faces are blurred — Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta's new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce …
More: Engadget, AppleInsider, Straight Arrow News, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Sandra Rose, and Euractiv
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @noaasm, @ronanprice, and @savasavasava.myatproto.social. Threads: @katienotopoulos. Mastodon: @krazykitty@mamot.fr
Forums: Hacker News, r/BlackboxAI_, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday that board chair Frank Yeary plans to retire following the company's annual meeting in May and will be replaced by Craig Barratt.
More: Intel, Tom's Hardware, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, and Reuters
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