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The EU Commission orders Apple to open iOS to third-party connected devices, and in preliminary findings charges Google with breaking the DMA in search and apps — EU continues Big Tech crackdown under landmark Digital Markets Act — Brussels is pressing ahead with regulatory action …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud” — Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank agrees to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5B in cash, with Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes as part of the deal, expected to close in H2 2025 — SoftBank is buying Ampere in an all-cash transaction that values the Santa Clara, California-based firm at $6.5 billion, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News.
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| Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel, following a report about a consortium with TSMC to operate Intel's factories — Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that his company had not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel (INTC.O).| Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend “several hundred billion” on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid US tariff threats — Jensen Huang's pledge follows onshoring plans by other tech companies as Trump trade policies ripple through industry
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse — Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: CoreWeave plans to offer shares at $47 to $55 each when it begins marketing its IPO this week, aiming to raise between $2.3B and $2.7B — CoreWeave, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), is planning to ask investors to pay $47 to $55 for each of its shares …
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| Sue Marek / Ookla: |
Analysis: AT&T and Verizon Speedtest users saw higher median download speeds on the iPhone 16e with the C1 modem than the iPhone 16; T-Mobile was the opposite — The 16e is the first iPhone to feature the Apple-designed C1 modem. — Key Takeaways: — AT&T and Verizon Speedtest® … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to some developers for $150/1M input and $600/1M output tokens — OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Verizon says its satellite messaging service is now available to owners of Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones at no extra charge — Texting via satellite comes to customers with recent Pixel and Galaxy phones starting today. … Verizon's previously announced satellite …
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
A group of cross-discipline video game workers in the US and Canada announce a direct-join union called the United Videogame Workers, organizing with the CWA — The group unveiled itself at the Game Developers Conference this week. — Today, a group of cross-discipline video game workers …
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| Anto Antony / Bloomberg: |
Bakkt names ex-SoftBank rainmaker Akshay Naheta as co-CEO to help turn around the struggling US crypto trading and custody platform; BKKT is down 62%+ in 2025 — Naheta will also be part of the company's board and will work with Andy Main, the firm's current CEO, according to a statement … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing a $1.5B deal to acquire NinjaTrader, a US retail futures trading platform; the deal could be announced on March 20 — NinjaTrader, a futures trading platform, would expand Kraken's offerings — The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is nearing …
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
South Korean media: LG will end its XR product commercialization efforts as it believes the market isn't growing as quickly as expected, but will continue R&D — LG has ceased its XR product commercialization efforts, it confirmed, though will still continue long-term R&D.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: X raised close to $1B in new equity in a deal that gives the company an enterprise value of roughly $44B; Elon Musk also participated in the raise — Elon Musk's social network X has raised close to $1 billion in new equity from investors, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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| Benedict Evans: |
Apple's stumble with Vision Pro, followed by falling flat on its face with AI, suggests the company may be slipping into a Vista-like drift of poor execution — It matters that Apple's new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn't realise. Is it more than that?| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year — Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase …
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| Reuters: |
Baidu denies data breach allegations after a top executive's teenage daughter leaked users' personal info, including phone numbers, following an online argument — Chinese search giant Baidu (9888.HK) on Wednesday denied allegations it had suffered an internal data breach … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Early-stage VC firm Long Journey Ventures, co-led by Cyan Banister, Arielle Zuckerberg, and Lee Jacobs, debuts with a ~$181.8M fund after five years in stealth — Long Journey Ventures has nurtured an appetite for off-beat startups. — In Silicon Valley's corporate landscape … | Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
Crypto-friendly stablecoin legislation is poised to pass the US Senate with support from some pro-crypto Democratic Senators, including Kirsten Gillibrand — The crypto industry is on a roll in Washington and it's not just because of Donald Trump. — A key ally is rising in the Democratic party …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases — Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That's what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical.| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK's NCSC urges large entities, including energy and transport firms, to introduce “post-quantum cryptography” by 2035 to protect against quantum hackers — Organisations including energy and transport firms told to guard systems against powerful new computers
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