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March 11, 2025, 1:10 PM

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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 …
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
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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 …
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 …
Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:
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.
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.
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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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