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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him  —  Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
Bloomberg:
Sources: President Trump's World Liberty Financial has discussed doing business with Binance, including the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”  —  After President Trump, in one of his initial actions upon returning to the White House, revoked the country's …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, available as an experimental feature to Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers  —  If you enable personalization, Gemini will reference your search history to ‘enhance’ some of its responses.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Google says Gemini users can now try Deep Research for free in 45+ languages and the tool is now powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning a new AirPods feature as part of iOS 19 that will enable live-translation of in-person conversations  —  Apple Inc. is planning a new AirPods feature that allows the earbuds to live-translate an in-person conversation into another language, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Copilot for Gaming, available through the Xbox mobile app initially for Xbox Insiders and designed to work as a companion or gaming coach  —  Microsoft is launching a Copilot in gaming with Xbox testers next month. … Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot …
The Information:
Sources: Oracle is a leading contender to help run TikTok US; ByteDance management prefers Oracle but wants to retain a hands-on role with TikTok's operations  —  Oracle has emerged as a leading contender to help run TikTok as part of a deal President Donald Trump is orchestrating to satisfy …
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google adds new developer tools and programs to simplify PC game porting to Android and improves Vulkan support on Android, ahead of the GDC  —  Google is improving Vulkan support on Android and introducing new tools and programs to simplify PC game porting
Meta:
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures  —  Takeaways - We will shortly begin testing Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the United States.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”
The Block:
Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Iron, an API-focused stablecoin infrastructure company, a source says in a “nine-figure” deal  —  - The acquisition is comparable to Stripe's acquisition of the stablecoin platform Bridge, and MoonPay's financial services will now include enterprise-grade stablecoin offerings.
Eric Geller / Wired:
Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency  —  Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they're struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses …
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 …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model for agentic enterprise tasks, with a context length of 256K tokens and requiring just two A100s or H100s  —  Canadian AI startup Cohere — co-founded by one of the authors of the original Transformer paper that kickstarted the large language model …
BBC:
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences  —  Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk visited the NSA and discussed staff reductions and operations with its leadership, a week after saying the agency needs an overhaul  —  Meeting between Musk and the National Security Agency's leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, an early investor in SMIC who has extensive ties to China and gained fame by helping turn around Cadence Design Systems  —  The semiconductor veteran is set to take the helm of the once-venerated U.S. chip maker  —  Lip-Bu Tan, who is set …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will work to make Intel a top foundry, signaling he'll stick with the costly plan that contributed to Pat Gelsinger's ouster

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From Mediagazer

Ellise Shafer / Variety:
BBC Chair Samir Shah says the Panorama edit “did give the impression of a direct call for violent action” and apologizes for the “error of judgement”

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Paramount plans an additional 1,600 job cuts as part of a goal to achieve $3B+ in cost savings; the new goal is $1B higher than Paramount's previous target

Reuters:
An analysis details how right-wing influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance to target critics, spread false claims, and reshape media

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Earlier Picks

Molly White / Citation Needed:
The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, to be funded via civil asset forfeitures, goes against bitcoiners' early skepticism of state overreach and market intervention
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
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
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