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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple confirms that it is delaying the “more personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out “in the coming year”  —  Here's a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch  —  Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome  —  The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) to sell its investments …
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models  —  Mustafa Suleyman wasn't getting the answers he wanted.  —  Last fall, during a video call with senior leaders at OpenAI and Microsoft …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
The White House hosted its first Crypto Summit, bringing together top crypto executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss  —  The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president's embrace of the once-renegade industry.
Pete Schroeder / Reuters:
The US OCC says banks can engage in some crypto activities, rescinding prior guidance that told them they should clear such activities with regulators first  —  The U.S. regulator overseeing national banks clarified Friday that banks can engage in some crypto activities …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns  —  Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times:
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line  —  Four satellite operators in talks over back-up for Kyiv if Elon Musk switches off broadband service
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months  —  The maker of coding app Cursor surpassed $100 million in recurring revenue in 12 months.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding  —  Reflection AI is building coding agents that can function autonomously.  —  Two top researchers from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind …
CNN:
China plans a “state venture capital guidance fund”, expected to attract ~$138B over 20 years from local governments and private sector, to support AI and more  —  Hong Kong CNN —  Fresh off the global success of DeepSeek's latest artificial intelligence reasoning model …
New York Times:
Sources: Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023  —  The design tech company is exploring a public offering after regulators stymied its $20 billion sale to the software giant Adobe in 2023.
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Unsealed court docs: US investigators believe hackers behind the 2022 LastPass breach stole $150M in XRP, now worth ~$700M, from one person in January 2024  —  The stolen XRP is now worth $716 million.  The Secret Service is trying to claw it back from unknown hackers.
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
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Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which will hold only assets that have been forfeited, disappoints traders who hoped the government would begin buying bitcoin

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
A federal judge in Virginia has denied the DOJ's request to search Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's devices as part of a national security leak probe

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
WBD says Paramount's new $31-a-share offer could lead to a better deal than Netflix's, potentially triggering a four-day period for Netflix to revise its bid

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