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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=726ac06319&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple updates the $599+ 11-inch and $799+ 13-inch iPad Air with M3, in four colors, and debuts a $269+ Magic Keyboard with function keys and a larger trackpad</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Pierce / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="excerpt">Only a year after the last Air, Apple is updating the middle of its tablet lineup once again.</span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=603b2bf9ae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple: announces new product “wow amazing, but could use a newer component or minor spec improvement” -next year- Apple: updates new product “this is the most underwhelming announcement by Apple ever!!1” ⬅️ you are here - some time later - Apple: announces new product</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d56188ac5e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Did a PE firm buy Apple or something, feels like they're basically rent seeking at this point</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9fed28ceaa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple's new iPad Air M3 is here! Is it bad that I'm more excited about the Magic Keyboard 2 than the iPad itself? 😅 Not even a wallpaper change lol cmon Apple [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e86e4d5601&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple unveils the 11th-generation iPad, adding an A16 Bionic chip and starting at 128GB of storage for the same $349, and offers a 256GB and a new 512GB option</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=87f21c125e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December over fraud allegations</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5570574a45&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">They are robbing you. They are glad to pick your pocket. </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a350c723f0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Original suit from the CFPB claimed that bank customers have lost over $870 million throughout the network's seven years of operation due to lack of consumer safeguards. </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5e9a972d30&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">.@LindseyJCBA issued the following statement in response to the CFPB dropping its Biden-era lawsuit against Zelle ⤵️ [Image: “(...) In a time when fraud and scam activity is surging across industries and government alike, we look forward to moving past finger pointing and political grandstanding and, instead, working constructively with policymakers to counter the root causes of these threats."]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e9ccaf39e8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to access users' encrypted data, even of non-UK users</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dc53b83549&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c21e704e51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual suggestions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kamila Wojciechowska / </span><span class="pub_name">Android Authority</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74d9862589&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Amazon is building a “hybrid reasoning” AI model, slated for a June 2025 launch under the Nova brand, hoping it can be more price-efficient than rivals</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6cf7f932d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber launches Waymo rides in Austin, where Waymo operates within 37 square miles including Hyde Park and Downtown; in August 2024, Waymo had ~700 vehicles total</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Patience Haggin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed45bd05d9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">After Trump imposes new tariffs on China, its government adds 15 US companies to its export control list, including drone maker Skydio and a16z-backed Shield AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Liza Lin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c3d201f3af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c49b5f3659&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nothing unveils the $379+ Phone 3A and $459+ 3A Pro, both with 6.77" displays, Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, and AI tools to help organize files, shipping later in March</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allison Johnson / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f6e6d369c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: China plans to issue guidance as soon as this month to encourage the use of open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8b997211d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI unveils NextGenAI, a consortium of research institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, and commits $50M in compute, API access, and research grants</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0423020780&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">GPT-4.5 review: solid verbal intelligence, abstract writing, taste, aesthetics vs. previous models but is lackluster at coding, especially vs. reasoning models</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zvi Mowshowitz / </span><span class="pub_name">Don't Worry About the Vase</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3ea17390eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Ilya Sutskever told associates that he isn't developing advanced AI using the methods used at OpenAI and has identified a “different mountain to climb”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b51d2475f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: President Trump is cutting ~40% of staff in the US government office responsible for the $52B CHIPS Act, including ~40 who are considered probationary</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mackenzie Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=00c73d6e1b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TSMC's US deal is a win-win; dropping one advanced node fab protects TSMC's interests, while an advanced packaging plant and R&D center helps the US' chip push</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Ming-Chi Kuo</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3b58a9c2c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Assured, whose AI tools automate insurance claims, raised equity funding in a round with Iconiq and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the company at about $1B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=609b971fad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Peregrine, which develops data analytics services used by state and local law enforcement agencies, raised $190M led by Sequoia at a $2.5B post-money valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lizette Chapman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a148d07c1c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Swap, which uses AI to help DTC e-commerce brands with inventory management, raised a $40M Series B led by Iconiq Growth and plans an international expansion</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Julia Hornstein / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb905a7f7a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">French crypto trading startup Flowdesk raised $52M, including ~$10.4M in debt, led by HV Capital, after a $50M Series B at a $250M+ valuation in January 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yogita Khatri / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed34339a72&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NYC-based Aescape, which makes AI-powered massage robots to be deployed in 60 Equinox gyms, raised $83M led by Valor Equity, a source says at a ~$250M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lizette Chapman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=98faf6bef3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Across Protocol, focused on connecting Ethereum with Layer 2 networks, raised $41M in a token round led by Paradigm, after a $10M token round in November 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yogita Khatri / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5a3f10b32a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CoreWeave's S-1 shows ~77% of its $1.9B revenue in 2024 came from its top two customers, one of them being Microsoft, which accounted for 62% of total sales</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bailey Lipschultz / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed081e5d9d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bde8c2ad2e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: great at 1440p but barely faster than the 4070 Super, not “4090 performance at $549”, and disproportionately high power usage</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Cunningham / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Corbin Bolies / </span><span class="pub_name">The Daily Beast</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c961cf02fc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Didi Autonomous Driving is seeking to raise new funding at a ~$5B valuation, after raising a $298M Series C led by Guangzhou Automobile in October 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dong Cao / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=58876ff6db&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.06B, vs. $1.03B est., a $92.3M net loss, and issues disappointing earnings guidance; CRWD drops 8%+ after hours</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39406fc6a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says 77%+ of the funds stolen remain traceable, including ~417,348 ETH, and 20% have “gone dark”; the hackers converted 83% of the ETH to BTC</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39731e835c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Jalisco says Foxconn's ~$900M Guadalajara plant in Mexico will be built in a year despite US tariffs, set to be the largest Nvidia GB200 server assembly site</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amy Stillman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8986c53852&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Xbox Kinect, released in 2010 and discontinued in 2017, has found applications beyond gaming, including in interactive art, pornography, and ghost hunting</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Geoffrey Bunting / </span><span class="pub_name">The Guardian</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8487ba6ac3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: ByteDance plans to buy back US employee stock at ~$189.90 per share, up from ~$181 in a similar proposal in 2024, putting ByteDance's valuation at $312B</a></span>
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