Techmeme: A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:

Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen — No surprises, but a lower $999 entry-level price is welcome. — At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1 …

Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware:

Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive — Apple's new Mac Studio doesn't look different on the outside, but there are plenty of performance upgrades under the hood

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Dave2D on YouTube:

Review of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory: opens up new workflows on a ~$10K desktop, like running a quantized 4-bit version of DeepSeek R1

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Reuters:

Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip, a key milestone as it moves to design more of its own silicon and reduce its reliance on Nvidia — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems …

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:

Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale — The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale.

More: 9to5Google, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, NBC News, CNET, The San Francisco Standard, San Francisco Chronicle, The Last Driver License Holder, and KRON4

Columbia Journalism Review:

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly — We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They're All Bad at Citing News. — AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity …

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Counterpoint Research:

Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3% — - The global smartwatch market fell 7% in 2024, the first ever decline in the overall market. — Apple retained its top position …

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Sam Sabin / Axios:

President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA — President Trump has nominated Sean Plankey, a veteran cyber official from his first administration, to run the lead U.S. cyber agency, according to a list of nominations sent to Congress.

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax” — TikTok's new wind down feature will interrupt a teen's feed if they're using the app after 10PM.

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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:

ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B, its largest-ever acquisition, in a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025 — ServiceNow (NOW.N) said on Monday it would buy AI firm Moveworks for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, marking the software maker's …

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Bloomberg:

Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have “human-like” finesse, raised $95M at a $1.65B valuation, up from $1.4B in 2021, bringing total funding to ~$300M — The startup is one of a growing number of companies that want to remake warehouses using AI.

New York Times:

Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program — The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.

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Sander Lutz / Decrypt:

Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US to buy up to 1M BTC — Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate Tuesday that would authorize the U.S. government to buy …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts — Sony's advanced technology group has created an AI-powered version of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games.

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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:

Coinbase registers with India's FIU and plans to roll out its retail trading platform in India later in 2025, its second attempt to expand in the country — - Coinbase tried to launch in India in 2022 but drew pushback — The firm is now returning after registering with the FIU

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Rafe Uddin / Financial Times:

A look at Amazon's growing array of warehouse robots, from robotic arms to heavy lift units and sorting machines; Amazon Robotics has rolled out 750K+ devices — Machines are used to pick, sort and pack online orders — In a vast Amazon warehouse on the outskirts of Tracy, central California …

More: Forbes and RoboticsTomorrow.com

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:

A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge, up 10x in 2024 per CoinGecko, vaulting it to the top tier of exchanges, as rivals question its growth — During the 2022 Super Bowl, the trading site Crypto.com aired the most notorious TV commercial in the short history of the crypto industry.

Emma Roth / The Verge:

OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration — OpenAI's new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fast Company, OpenAI, and TechRadar

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Reuters:

India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access — India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the highly anticipated launch …

Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:

Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more — The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD/Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration.

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: great gaming and general performance and AMD removed overclocking limitations, but a niche CPU, some software issues, and pricey — Not a lot of people actually need this thing, but if you do, it's very good. — Even three years later, AMD's high-end X3D-series processors still …

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Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:

Sources: VCs with “locked” tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation — - Venture funds have accumulated large sums of locked tokens — Firms including Wintermute help investors hedge their holdings

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg:

Celestial AI, which aims to use light to speed up data transfer inside servers, raised $250M led by Fidelity at a $2.5B valuation, taking its funding to $515M — - BlackRock and AMD Ventures participated in $250 million round — Startups are trying to develop ways to speed up AI computing

More: eeNews Europe, Crunchbase News, Celestial AI, FinSMEs, and Reuters

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:

As automation and robotics undergo a revolution, a call to action for the US and the West, which are missing the new labor economy that China is set to capture — SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground …

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