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OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)
Julia Black / Vanity Fair : OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships,…
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Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Leo Schwartz / Fortune : Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Serie…
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Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch : Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app de…
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Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limit…
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Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg : Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD c…
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Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety : Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to…
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Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts (Counterpoint Research)
Counterpoint Research : Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over…
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Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active Chat…
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Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Will Oremus / Washington Post : Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allege…
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Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits (Axios)
Axios : Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguard…
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India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance…
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Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times : Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, C…
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A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)
Jessica Brice / Bloomberg : A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem po…
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Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “…
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Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegall…
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