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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
More: Benzinga, Fortune, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Times of India, Business Today, The Hans India, and Implicator.ai
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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.
More: Samsung Newsroom, T3, Macworld, Thurrott, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada, The Mac Observer, Tom's Guide, Sam Lover, Trusted Reviews, Android Headlines, Silicon Canals, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Notebookcheck, SamMobile, PCMag, Mashable, SammyGuru, Android Authority, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Phandroid, Digit, The Indian Express, Business Today, Forbes, Bangkok Post, Android Central, IGN, Pocket-lint, The Shortcut, Korea Joongang Daily, GSMArena.com, Ubergizmo, and ZDNET
X: @theonecid and @universeice
Forums: r/gadgets, r/samsunggalaxy, and r/Android
| 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 …
More: PYMNTS.com and Search Engine Roundtable
| 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
More: Unchained, The Block, Benzinga, Sports Business Journal, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, and Townhall
| 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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Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| 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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| 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 …
More: CleanTechnica and Motley Fool
| 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. … | 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, Fortune, Times of India, Digit, 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: 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: Gizmodo and UKTN
X: @andrewfeinstein and @johnobrennan2
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/technology, r/unitedkingdom, and r/ukpolitics
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: EA is selling a $15B debt package to fund its $55B take-private deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings — For Electronic Arts Inc.'s prospective debt investors, Battlefield 6 and Skate aren't just two of the video-game maker's most popular titles.| Nino Paoli / Bloomberg: |
AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure — Kandou AI, an artificial-intelligence chip company led by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director, raised $225 million … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
A profile of AWS following its 20th anniversary, covering its creation, ability to lead the market it created, response to the ChatGPT disruption, and AI bets — In the early days of Amazon Web Services, technical evangelist Jeff Barr was putting in long hours on the road, pitching a novel concept …
More: TechCrunch and Telecompaper
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