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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 78% YoY to $39.33B, vs. $38.05B est., Data Center revenue up 93% to $35.6B, and FY 2025 revenue up 114% to $130.5B — Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell that beat Wall Street expectations and the company provided strong guidance for the current quarter.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Shacknews, Semafor, Bloomberg, and RTL Today
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils Alexa+, a generative AI update with vision capabilities and more, in preview in March 2025 for $20 per month or free to Prime subscribers — Arriving more than a year after it was first announced, Alexa is finally catching up to Google's Gemini.
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LinkedIn: Damian McCabe, Sumit Agarwal, Amit Singla, and Michael Giannangeli
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Panos Panay demoed Alexa+ in a flowing ongoing conversation and says it can book concert tickets, make restaurant reservations, and text a babysitter — Amazon.com Inc. has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence. — The rollout is the biggest overhaul of the voice-activated …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Alexa+ is “model agnostic”, using Amazon Nova models and Anthropic's models, and picks the “best” AI model for a task, drawing on Amazon Bedrock — Amazon says that Alexa+, the new and improved Alexa unveiled on Wednesday, is powered by a “model agnostic” …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Letter: US DNI Tulsi Gabbard calls the UK's order for Apple to add an iCloud backdoor an “egregious” violation of Americans' rights and plans a legal review — British order demanding access to encrypted storage on Apple devices opens up “a serious vulnerability for cyber exploitation,” she said.| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
Trump says “Apple should get rid of DEI rules, not just make adjustments to them” in a Truth Social post, after Apple investors rejected a proposal to end DEI — - Investors turned down outside proposal to scrap DEI efforts — Trump escalates campaign against diversity hiring practices
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| Jeremy Gan / Engadget: |
Google redesigns Results About You, its tool for requesting the removal of Search results with personal info, adding a new hub and the ability to update results — You can also address outdated search results now. — Google has been offering the Results About You tool since 2022 and updated it once in 2023.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3's Loss of Pulse Detection feature, available in the EU and rolling out in the US at the end of March — Loss of Pulse Detection was announced last August as the Pixel Watch 3's latest safety feature, and it has finally been approved … | Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia says Apple signed a deal to invest in Indonesia and will issue it a permit, paving the way for resuming iPhone 16 sales after a five-month tussle — The agreement was announced by Minister for Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita in a media briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday, as reported by Bloomberg Technoz.
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| Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Wan 2.1, a family of open-source AI models for generating images and videos, available globally on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and Hugging Face — Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 — Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. … According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek, which planned to release R2 in May 2025, now wants R2 out as soon as possible; DeepSeek owner High-Flyer built a 10K A100 GPU cluster in 2021 — DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. — The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off …
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| Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
Court records: FTX paid nearly $948M to 12+ firms working on its bankruptcy, one of the costliest Chapter 11 cases in US history; users are set to get back 118% — - Lack of records, corporate controls sent adviser fees higher — Most creditors poised to get back 118% of what they were owed
More: Gizmodo, Blockchain News, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Hume launches Octave, an LLM for text-to-speech that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions, offering a free tier with 10,000 characters per month — New York City startup Hume AI emerged from stealth two years ago and has since raised multimillions in funding on the basis …
More: Hume AI, ZDNET, Hume AI on YouTube, and TestingCatalog
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @jerhadf, @hume_ai, @hume_ai, and @testingcatalog
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 28% YoY to $943.3M, vs. $915.8M est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 8%+ after hours — Snowflake Inc. projected better-than-expected revenue growth for the fiscal year, sending an optimistic signal about the adoption …
More: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and Snowflake
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
AppLovin's stock falls 10%+ after two short sellers released reports questioning the integrity of the company's AI-powered AXON ad software — Shares of AppLovin closed down 12% Wednesday as two short seller reports cast doubt on the integrity of the company's artificial intelligence-powered … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot — Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots …
More: Ghacks, TechIssuesToday.com, and Moneycontrol
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework Desktop hands-on: the tiny 4.5-liter gaming desktop looks cool, good frame rates at 1440p thanks to its AMD Ryzen AI Max CPU, expandable I/O, and more — Is this neat thing a new sub-category or a one-off? … Framework's mission is to “fix consumer electronics, one category at a time” …
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| The Verge: |
A survey of 2,000 US adults finds 42% say that search engines like Google are becoming less useful, 60% view the state of social media negatively, and more — - Platform Shifts — Defining Connection — Content Matters (Especially in Communities) — Brands Matter.AI May Complicate| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it completed a multi-year project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, to let Europe-based cloud customers store and process data in EU — Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How the hackers behind the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets — The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday's heist, likely by North Korea …
More: BBC, The Trail of Bits Blog, The Independent, The Crypto Times, Check Point Research, BleepingComputer, MEDIANAMA, The Crypto Times, Hackread, and Schneier on Security
Bluesky: @Edent.mastodon.social … and @patrickhowelloneill.com
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.6B, GMV up 4% YoY to $19.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below expectations; EBAY drops 7%+ after hours — E-commerce firm eBay (EBAY.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling weak demand for products such as collector's items and refurbished goods.
More: investors.ebayinc.com and Bloomberg
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