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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $599+ 11-inch and $799+ 13-inch iPad Air with M3, in four colors, and debuts a $269+ Magic Keyboard with function keys and a larger trackpad — Only a year after the last Air, Apple is updating the middle of its tablet lineup once again. … The iPad Air is a tricky tablet.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils the 11th-generation iPad, adding an A16 Bionic chip and starting at 128GB of storage for the same $349, and offers a 256GB and a new 512GB option — Apple today announced the 11th-generation iPad, now featuring the A16 Bionic chip and more storage.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features — There are new features for Android and Pixel phones, including live location sharing in the Find My app.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to access users' encrypted data, even of non-UK users — iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Aescape, which makes AI-powered massage robots to be deployed in 60 Equinox gyms, raised $83M led by Valor Equity, a source says at a ~$250M valuation — Massage startup Aescape is raising money from investors including Valor Equity Partners and basketball player Kevin Love.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Source: Amazon is building a “hybrid reasoning” AI model, slated for a June 2025 launch under the Nova brand, hoping it can be more price-efficient than rivals — - Amazon plans to launch a new AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities. — The model aims to offer hybrid reasoning …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: great 1440p performance, compact, and DLSS is useful, but high power use, only 12GB of RAM, runs hot, and availability is tricky — It's not all bad news, but in a lot of ways this is barely an upgrade. — “4090 performance at $549.”
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI unveils NextGenAI, a consortium of research institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, and commits $50M in compute, API access, and research grants — OpenAI on Monday announced a consortium, NextGenAI, focused on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches Waymo rides in Austin, where Waymo operates within 37 square miles including Hyde Park and Downtown; in August 2024, Waymo had ~700 vehicles total — Residents of the Texas capital can now hail a driverless Waymo vehicle — as long as they're within the 37-square-mile service area.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal email: Amazon has formed a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday.| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: President Trump is cutting ~40% of staff in the US government office responsible for the $52B CHIPS Act, including ~40 who are considered probationary — The US government office responsible for a marquee $52 billion chip subsidy program will lose about two-fifths of its staff … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says 77%+ of the funds stolen remain traceable, including ~417,348 ETH, and 20% have “gone dark”; the hackers converted 83% of the ETH to BTC — Some 417,348 ETH, valued at approximately $1 billion remain traceable on the blockchain after being moved using privacy-focused THORChain.
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
TSMC's US deal is a win-win; dropping one advanced node fab protects TSMC's interests, while an advanced packaging plant and R&D center helps the US' chip push — TSMC's newly announced US investment plan, unveiled on March 4, 2025, differs from the original by adding $100 billion …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Across Protocol, focused on connecting Ethereum with Layer 2 networks, raised $41M in a token round led by Paradigm, after a $10M token round in November 2022 — - Across Protocol has raised $41 million through the sale of its ACX tokens to investors. — Paradigm led the round …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud-based Nvidia GPU provider CoreWeave files for an IPO on the Nasdaq under CRWV and says 2024 revenue was up 737% YoY to $1.92B and it had an $863M net loss — CoreWeave, a provider of cloud-based Nvidia processors to companies including Meta and Microsoft, is headed for the public market.
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
| Julia Hornstein / Business Insider: |
Swap, which uses AI to help DTC, e-commerce brands with inventory management, raised a $40M Series B led by Iconiq Growth and plans an international expansion — - Swap raises $40 million in Series B funding led by ICONIQ Growth. — Founded in 2022, Swap consolidates logistics for e-commerce brands into one platform.
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
After Trump imposes new tariffs on China, its government adds 15 US companies to its export control list, including drone maker Skydio and a16z-backed Shield AI — On Tuesday, China's Ministry of Commerce said it added 15 American companies to an export-control list and expanded the number … | Geoffrey Bunting / The Guardian: |
The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting — Fifteen years since Microsoft's motion-sensing gaming camera was released for the Xbox 360, artists, roboticists and more are still finding new ways to use it
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