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March 11, 2025, 9:15 AM

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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 …
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
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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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  —  CoreWeave, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), has signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion …
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
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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 …
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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.
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  —  Elon Musk blamed widespread disruptions on his social media platform X on a “massive cyberattack,” which he claimed was orchestrated by a …
Emma Roth / The Verge:

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