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February 24, 2025, 7:35 AM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump  —  - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas  — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
Wes Davis / The Verge:
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to eventually meld the modem into the main processor on its devices but likely no sooner than 2028; the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March  —  Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e.  In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of $4B+ after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; Bybit's CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn  —  Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
Elliptic:
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever  —  On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the Wild West of the financial world
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As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds  —  We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Bloomberg:
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years  —  - The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company  — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google prices Veo 2, its new AI video model, at $0.50 per second of generated video; in December 2024, OpenAI offered Sora to its ChatGPT Plus and Pro subs  —  Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December.
Financial Times:
Prosus plans to buy Just Eat Takeaway for €20.30 per share, a 22% premium over its three-month high, in an all-cash deal valuing the delivery company at €4B+  —  Deal marks end to tumultuous few years for European food delivery group  —  Just Eat Takeaway is set to be acquired …
Financial Times:
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023  —  Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

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