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March 11, 2025, 12:25 PM
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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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple preps a major interface revamp for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, loosely based on visionOS, with a consistent design and simpler navigation  —  Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone …
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.
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.
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 …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Norm Ai, which develops AI agents focused on regulatory compliance, raised a $48M Series B led by Coatue, bringing its total amount raised to $87M  —  Norm Ai Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence agents focused on regulatory compliance, said today it has closed on a $48 million Series B funding round …
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024  —  - Kleiner Perkins is said to be leading the funding round  — The deal would triple Chainguard's valuation to $3.5 billion
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 …
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: FinSMEs and Reuters
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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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A US judge orders a temporary halt to the Paramount-WBD merger, as a 12-state coalition, led by California, argues it would violate federal antitrust law

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Unsealed docs: the DOJ sought phone records of NYT reporters and their relatives in an extraordinary attempt to unmask sources of NYT's Air Force One coverage

MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY

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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users
New York Times:
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
New York Times:
Eric Schmidt becomes CEO of Relativity Space; sources say Schmidt made a significant investment in the rocket building startup to take a controlling stake
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Asana announces CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring, and reports Q4 sales rose 10% YoY to $188.3M, in line with estimates; ASAN drops 25%+
Echo Wang / Reuters:
CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI and will issue shares worth $350M to OpenAI through a private placement at the time of CoreWeave's IPO
Reuters:
Sources: Apple and Meta are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching the EU's DMA, which allows fines of up to 10% of companies' global annual sales
Myles Udland / Yahoo Finance:
Tech stocks led a broad sell-off: the Nasdaq fell 4%, its sharpest one-day decline since Sept. 2022, with NVDA down 5%, AAPL down 5%, META down 4%, GOOG down 4%
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10
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