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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models  —  Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI.  Search through them here.  —  When employees at meta started developing …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell will take over Siri, which is being removed from AI head John Giannandrea's command, and report to Craig Federighi  —  Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple
Bloomberg:
European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane says Europe needs a digital euro to avoid rising stablecoin risks and reduce reliance on US payment firms  —  Europe needs a digital currency to safeguard against threats from new forms of money like stablecoins, and reduce reliance …
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
The US SEC says proof-of-work crypto mining doesn't trigger federal securities laws and mining operators do not need to register their transactions with the SEC  —  In a staff statement published Thursday, the SEC said that both solo mining and mining pool operations would fail the first prong of the Howey Test.
Reuters:
Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its US IPO at a valuation between $27.4B and $32B, selling 49M shares for $47 to $55; Nvidia owns 5.96%
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang walks back his January 2025 comments casting doubt on useful quantum computing within 15 years, which triggered a quantum stock sell-off  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic adds web search to Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now in preview for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon  —  Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.
Financial Times:
A profile of Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport, who served in Israel's elite cyber intelligence unit 8200; sources say Wiz was on track to surpass $1B of ARR in 2025  —  Cybersecurity start-up's fast-moving CEO agrees higher sale price after turning down Alphabet's $23bn offer last summer
More: CRN
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API  —  OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases.
Gary Rivlin / Bloomberg:
A book excerpt from AI Valley details the 2024 mass defection of staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving but faced scaling challenges, to Microsoft  —  An excerpt from AI Valley tells the story of why the staff at Inflection AI, which seemed to be thriving, defected en masse to Microsoft in 2024.
The Guardian:
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods  —  Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Tencent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek, and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its ad and gaming businesses  —  Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it
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Kara Fellows / CBS News:
Google says it uncovered 10K+ illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Maps and files a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud  —  Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced …
Counterpoint Research:
Shipments of India-manufactured smartphones grew 6% YoY in 2024, with Samsung and Apple accounting for ~94% of exports; Samsung's India exports grew 13% YoY  —  - Samsung retained its position as the top smartphone manufacturer in India in 2024, registering a growth of 7% YoY driven by a 13% YoY increase in its exports.

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Maddy Crowell / Columbia Journalism Review:
An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security

Washington Post:
The Pentagon says Stars and Stripes will move “away from woke distractions” and cease publishing AP “reprints”; its EIC says he'll work to save its independence

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm after nearly 14 years and will be succeeded by the studio's Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web, using AI to show the most relevant results instead of showing emails in chronological order

Earlier Picks

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Threads rolls out new features: ability to set following feed or any custom feed as the default, limit post replies to followers, a better video player, more
Reuters:
X sues Narendra Modi's government in New Delhi, saying its IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content
Bloomberg:
Huawei unveils the Pura X foldable phone that opens to an unconventional 16:10 6.3" display, its first flagship with HarmonyOS 5, launching in China for ~$1,036
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