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Nvidia updates the DGX Station, begins taking reservations for the DGX Spark box, formerly Project Digits, and unveils the RTX PRO workstation and server GPUs — GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia's first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026 — Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.
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| CNBC: |
GM partners with Nvidia to use Nvidia Drive AGX, Omniverse with Cosmos, and more across driver assistance systems and factory planning and robotics — General Motors and Nvidia have agreed to a strategic collaboration that includes the automaker using several products and artificial intelligence services …
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster — Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case …
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| The Verge: |
Alphabet acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024 — The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia's ~10% stake in Wiz would net the firm ~$3B from Wiz's sale to Alphabet, a 25-fold return; Greenoaks would secure ~$2B on its ~$300M investment — Wiz backer Sequoia Capital is poised to deliver a return of about 25 times its invested capital from the cybersecurity startup's pending sale …
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| New York Times: |
Trump fires the two Democratic members of the FTC, threatening the independence of the regulator in a decision that is likely to face a legal challenge — The decision to fire the two Democratic members of the traditionally independent regulatory body is likely to face a legal challenge.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Eric Migicovsky unveils two Pebble smartwatches running its open-source OS, the $149 Core 2 Duo shipping July 2025 and $225 Core Time 2 shipping December 2025 — Pebble's creator now runs a company called Core Devices, and it's getting ready to sell two new watches soon.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts new Search and Android health care features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma — Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search …
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| Rajesh Pandey / Android Police: |
Ahead of the Pixel 9a's rumored March 19 debut, a YouTuber posts a video of the alleged phone, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels — - Detailed Pixel 9a unboxing and hands-on videos have been published on YouTube. — One YouTuber has put the phone through its paces … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times since their 2023 debut, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024 — In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM — They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree. — On Tuesday, the company added a feature …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel was Keith O'Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin — Rippling manager allegedly fed stolen customer and employee information to company's rival — Keith O'Brien used to appear … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk invested $150M to acquire more X shares in 2024 at a valuation close to his 2022 purchase price and “expressed willingness” to buy more shares — - Musk “expressed willingness” to buy more shares, filing shows — Musk initially purchased X for $44 billion including debt
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle is weighing a TikTok proposal that would have it provide security assurances and take a small stake while leaving the algorithm in Chinese hands — - Plan emerges as deadline nears for deal to save TikTok in US — Oracle would offer security guarantee if China keeps algorithm
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| Reuters: |
Germany's Federal Court of Justice rules against Apple's appeal opposing a 2023 regulatory assessment that opens Apple up to stricter controls in the country — Apple (AAPL.O) lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany …
More: GuruFocus, MacRumors, RTÉ, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
CISA scrambles to contact 130+ fired employees after court rules the layoffs unlawful but says re-hired staff will immediately be placed on administrative leave — The U.S. government's cybersecurity agency is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Crossmint, which helps developers add crypto functionality to their code, raised $23.6M, including a seed and a Series A led by Ribbit Capital — Plenty of young people launch startups, but Rodri Fernández Touza may be the first to jump into crypto from a monastery.
More: PYMNTS.com, Crossmint Blog, CoinDesk, The Block, and NFTgators
| Bloomberg: |
Crusoe: Stargate's first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips — - Developer Crusoe says construction will be done in mid 2026 — OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank partnering on AI infrastructure| New York Times: |
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which already has fiber internet, after SpaceX “donated” the service, as some cite security concerns — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
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X: @serobinsonjr and @sundaedivine
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adobe debuts an agent orchestrator with 10 initial Experience Agents for its Adobe Experience customer data management and marketing suite, to rival Salesforce — Adobe Inc. is taking aim at its rival Salesforce Inc. in the customer experience department with the launch of a new tool …
More: WinBuzzer, CIO.com, Moneycontrol, Reuters, Ad Age, ZDNET, Unite.AI, diginomica, and Analytics India Magazine
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” — AI start-up's product head Mike Krieger says $60bn company is preparing to release features aimed at enterprise market
More: Analytics India Magazine, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Digital Trends
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