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| Bhanvi Satija / Reuters: |
Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, effective March 18, and says he will rejoin the board; INTC jumps 10%+ — Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) on Wednesday named former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO effective March 18 …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will stick with the costly foundry plan, which led to Pat Gelsinger's ouster, to make Intel “a world-class products company” — Incoming Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan is signaling that he'll stick with his predecessor's plan …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products — In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Niantic Labs says it is selling its video game division, including Pokémon Go, to Saudi Arabia-owned developer Scopely for $3.5B, subject to regulatory approval — The $3.5 billion Scopely deal could bring Niantic's AR gaming catalog under Saudi ownership.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected — An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025 — The device, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025. … Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results — The company said classical computers can't beat its quantum computer in magnetic materials simulation. Some physicists disagree.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action — A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google calls the passage of Utah's app store age-verification bill “concerning” and part of an effort by Meta and others to “offload” kids' safety to app stores — Google has its own ideas about what kids online safety legislation should look like.
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
CoinGecko data shows that daily crypto trading volume dropped from a peak of $440B in early February 2025 to $163B on March 12, a 63% decrease — Crypto trading volumes and dwindling digital asset prices are flashing signs of trader exhaustion and potentially weaker market momentum, according to analysts.| TechCrunch: |
Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities — Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based Robotics and Robotics-ER, to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before” — Gemini Robotics also makes robots more dexterous, allowing them to perform more precise tasks, like folding a piece of paper.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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Forums: r/singularity, r/LocalLLM, and r/Bard
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US FTC says it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after asking a judge for a delay due to staffing shortfalls — The Federal Trade Commission said it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after requesting a delay due to resource constraints.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the FTC moves ahead with an antitrust probe of Microsoft opened by Lina Khan, signaling that new Chair Andrew Ferguson prioritizes Big Tech scrutiny — FTC staff in recent weeks have continued to work on the investigation, meeting with companies and other groups to gather information …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus has been slow to attract private sector investment, with only around $49M invested so far, compared to $6.23B in state assistance — Uncertainties around tech and customer demand cause investors to balk — TOKYO — Japanese chipmaker Rapidus … Sponsor Posts
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