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March 6, 2025, 12:10 PM

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed  —  Apple is developing a “refreshed” version of its C1 modem for mass production next year that will improve power consumption and transmission speed …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox  —  Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs  —  Qwen Team, which is growing Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs) …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI  —  In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
USCIS proposes reviewing social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO  —  People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
Brian McGleenon / The Block:
Nansen: Trump's World Liberty Financial bought Ether worth $10M, WBTC worth $10M, and MOVE worth $1.5M ahead of the White House Crypto Summit  —  - World Liberty Financial has increased its cryptocurrency holdings ahead of the White House Crypto Summit — acquiring over $25 million …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils AI agents Sales Agent and Sales Chat that connect to Dynamics 365 business apps and Salesforce, available in public preview from May 2025  —  Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.
Financial Times:
Sources: before CoreWeave's IPO, Microsoft canceled some agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 revenue  —  AI data centre provider hit by blow from biggest customer ahead of the biggest tech listing this year
Mahmoud Itani / Macworld:
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas  —  Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2, featuring a new pause/resume button for active downloads in the App Store.
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform  —  The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software.  —  Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million …
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William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple's M4 MacBook Air supports two monitors of up to 6K resolution each, plus the built-in 13.6" or 15.3" display, addressing the prior M3 models' limitation  —  The new M4 MacBook Air fixes what's been a key problem with the line, and now supports up to two external monitors …
Forbes:
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search  —  AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic.  New data shows that's not the case.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs  —  The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Turing, which works with engineers to contribute code to AI projects, raised a $111M Series E led by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund at a $2.2B valuation  —  As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged …
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