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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Meta's employees build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster — Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March — The AI company seeks stronger ties with brands to boost its nascent ad business — OpenAI has hired Dave Dugan …
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| Mike Sorrentino / CNET: |
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions — AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.
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X: @theonecid and @universeice
Forums: r/gadgets, r/samsunggalaxy, and r/Android
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 — Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric — Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI …
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X: @mparakhin, @badlogicgames, @nathancgy4, @minchoi, @mstockton, @iruletheworldmo, @jsonbasedman, @gfodor, @zhengyaojiang, @cgtwts, @jachiam0, @hxiao, @lateinteraction, @kevinweil, @sundeep, @christinetyip, @0xkydo, @ryancarson, @fakepsyho, @sowmay_jain, @borismpower, @saranormous, @birdabo, @snwy_me, @deredleritt3r, @kaixhin, @_weidai, @aakashgupta, @tengyanai, and @cgtwts
Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket — Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders — Luxury ride-hailing app Wheely is making its debut in the US, presenting competition to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. …
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Financial Times: |
Addison Lee CEO Liam Griffin says London cab drivers should be protected via “a minimum price” on Waymo's and Tesla's robotaxis to prevent “predatory pricing” — Cab drivers should be protected by imposing “a minimum price” on robotaxis offered by Waymo and Tesla to prevent …
| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial intelligence companies …
More: NextBigWhat. X: @highyieldharry, @hamptonism, @onodacapital, @longshorttrader, @tunguz, @niubi, and @jerrycap. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA — Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung's (005930.KS) smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under …
More: The Guardian, Broadband TV News, Wall Street Journal, and Advanced Television. Forums: r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple — Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Moneycontrol, 9to5Mac, Digit, Times of India, iClarified, and MacRumors
X: @markgurman, @titanas, @parkerortolani, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony is nearing an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL for ~$1B, to be announced as soon as in March — Sony Group Corp. is nearing a binding agreement to sell a majority stake in its home entertainment business …
More: Media Play News and Benzinga
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA — Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy
More: The Register, Telecompaper, Gizmodo, and UKTN
X: @andrewfeinstein and @johnobrennan2
Bluesky: @openrightsgroup.org, @duncanrobertson, and @yanisvaroufakis. Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social …
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/technology, r/unitedkingdom, and r/ukpolitics
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands — Unbelievable productivity performance at an even more unbelievable price - shame gaming still takes a backseat.
More: Club386, Moneycontrol, HotHardware, The Register, PCWorld, Windows Central, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, Neowin, PCMag, Notebookcheck, PCGamesN, KitGuru, CGMagazine, and VideoCardz.com
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