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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000  —  And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist …
Associated Press:
Resignation letter: 21 DOGE staffers, who previously worked at the USDS, say they won't use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services”  —  More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency …
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI expands Deep Research to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, with 10 queries per month; Pro users now have 120 queries per month, up from 100  —  A $200 Pro subscription is no longer required to use the tool.  —  When OpenAI announced Deep Research at start of February …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches an updated Photoshop app for iOS, including many design, editing, and AI tools from the desktop app; an Android app is coming “later this year”  —  It's free and available on iOS first, with an Android version coming later this year.
Brad Norton / Dexerto:
Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it “uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”, after fan speculation  —  Activision has finally admitted to using AI-generated content in its games and Call of Duty players aren't the least bit surprised.
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes  —  Uniswap celebrated the news on X, calling it a “huge win for DeFi.”  —  What to know: … The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
New York Times:
Users reported that Apple's automatic dictation system was transcribing the word “racist” as “Trump”, before correcting itself; Apple says it's working on a fix  —  The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Framework announces its first desktop PC, the Framework Desktop, which starts at $1,099 and comes with an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 and 32GB RAM, slated for Q3 2025  —  Ryzen AI Max and its gigantic integrated GPU power this Xbox Series S-sized PC.  —  The original Framework Laptop's sales pitch …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump's team plans tougher US chip curbs and have met with Dutch and Japanese counterparts, urging them to tighten restrictions on China's chip sector
Reuters:
Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Games shuts down three game studios and pulls the plug on a Wonder Woman game that had been in development for over three years  —  Warner Bros. Discovery is making cutbacks to try to get its games business back on track. … The open-world game was in the works at Monolith Productions …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple investors reject outside shareholder proposals asking the company to cease its DEI efforts and write a report assessing the risks of its work on AI  —  Apple Inc. investors rejected outside shareholder proposals that asked the iPhone maker to cease its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out  —  Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Claude 3.7 Sonnet's extended thinking mode and its 128K token output limit; long thinking runs are impressive but can take several minutes to complete  —  Claude 3.7 Sonnet (previously) is a very interesting new model.  I released llm-anthropic 0.14 last night adding support for the new model's features to LLM.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge says Meta must face a potential class action lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers over US citizen job applicants, citing Meta's stats  —  A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms (META.O) must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Perfect, a startup from the founder of AnyVision that helps job recruiters write and publish job listings and triage responses, raised a $23M seed  —  “Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment.  Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed …
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Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Employee screening company DISA confirms a data breach in February 2024, found in April 2024, affecting 3.3M+ people and including Social Security numbers  —  DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people.

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

David Pierce / The Verge:
Yahoo launches Game Breakdowns in beta, offering AI-generated game summaries, stats, and play recaps, all updated live, to Yahoo Fantasy Plus subscribers

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media COO Julia Beizer is leaving the company, a source says to lead Microsoft's AI news product, working under Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Bitcoin falls below $90K, its lowest level since mid-November 2024, as the rally that followed Trump's election fades; ETH, XRP, SOL, and more also fell sharply
Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg:
Sources: Indonesia and Apple agree a deal to lift the iPhone 16 ban, with Apple set to invest $1B; a memorandum of agreement may be signed this week
Bloomberg:
Tesla starts rolling out a software update enabling driver-assistance features, similar to Full Self-Driving in the US, for Chinese customers who paid $8,800
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023
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