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Karandeep Singh Oberoi / Android Police:
Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs  —  Can you imagine a world where WhatsApp stops offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE)?  That's not happening, but a different Meta-owned company …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal  —  Investors in social-media platform's U.S. business, including Oracle and Silver Lake, agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources say
Financial Times:
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla  —  EXCLUSIVE
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Elon Musk says xAI “was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up”  —  Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being rebuilt from the foundations up.”
The Information:
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to “catch up and exceed our competitors” in coding by mid-2026
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, and transport industries  —  Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating …
Wall Street Journal:
AWS plans to deploy Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine chip for AI inference functions; AWS will still offer slower, cheaper computing using its Trainium processors  —  Amazon Web Services says the partnership will allow it to offer lightning-fast inference computing
Bloomberg:
$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters said it would host a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the WH hasn't confirmed his attendance  —  The memecoin bearing Donald Trump's name surged as much as 60% in the last 24 hours after its promoters advertised an exclusive gala …
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
MacBook Neo teardown: most repairable MacBook in ~14 years, with no parts pairing issues, a screwed-down battery, and relatively easy keyboard replacement  —  Is Apple's most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable?  For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts.
Anthropic:
Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer a 1M context window at standard pricing; it is the default for Claude Code Max, Team, and Enterprise users on Opus 4.6  —  Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium.  Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10  —  The revamped Prime Video ‘Ultra’ tier will cost $4.99 per month and come with ‘exclusive’ access to 4K streams.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Adobe will pay a $75M fine and provide $75M in free services to users to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing termination fees, and more  —  Adobe (ADBE.O) reached a $150 million settlement to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit accusing the Photoshop and Acrobat maker …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Amazon wins its appeal against a €746M GDPR fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy watchdog after a court finds the watchdog had not properly done its analysis  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) on Friday won its appeal against a record 746-million-euro ($854.4 million) fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy regulator …
More: Amazon
Reuters:
Didi reports Q4 revenue up 10.5% YoY to $8.46B, international revenue up 47% YoY to $638M, and a net loss of $43.48M amid an overseas expansion push  —  Didi Global reported on Friday a net loss for the fourth quarter, as China's largest ride-hailing platform ramped up its international expansion, boosting costs.
More: Didi and Bloomberg
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen  —  Peacock is making a clear bet on two things: AI and mobile-first entertainment.  —  Based on what the streamer previewed at a press event yesterday …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber is relaunching a robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas; the service will have a safety driver behind the wheel until the end of 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is relaunching a robotaxi service with the Hyundai Motor Co.-backed company Motional in Las Vegas …

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From Mediagazer

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

More News

Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” and strengthens that of “working-class, often male voters”
Fortune:
Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including of a VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, that helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a “remote wipe” command against all connected devices

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple is lowering its commission for its App Store in mainland China from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, “following discussions with the Chinese regulator”
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, turned on by default for all users in beta
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India
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