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February 17, 2025, 3:10 AM

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Sources: Broadcom has informally explored a bid for Intel's chip design and marketing unit, but only if it could secure a partner for Intel's foundry business  —  Broadcom has interest in Intel's chip-design business, while TSMC is looking at the company's factories
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's digital products  —  - Kaplan says company will make case if EU singles it out  — Tension over tech rules underscores transatlantic rift
Reuters:
South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules  —  South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M  —  Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe's digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program …
Reuters:
Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its LLM, Ernie  —  Tencent said on Sunday its (0700.HK) Weixin messaging app, China's largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek's …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to boost the Vision Pro with Apple Intelligence, a spatial content app, and a revamped guest mode in visionOS 2.4, as early as April 2025  —  - Company seeks to boost interest in headset with new features  — Move marks the first device expansion for Apple Intelligence

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