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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e2a51f269b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=24c41c04c8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@vadimyuryev:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d8ccaf6c02&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Despite M3-generation cores vs new M4 gen, the M3 Ultra chip still beats out the rest of the Windows competition in terms of single-core performance in CB2024. No wonder Apple felt comfortable enough to stick to M3 Ultra instead of making an M4 Ultra for the Mac Studio.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=71141eb4f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The main thing stopping me from getting a M4 Air is the reduced screen quality compared to the Macbook Pro Refresh rate: Air: 60Hz Pro: 120Hz Resolution: Air: 2880 x 1864 224 ppi Pro: 3456 x 2234, 254ppi Brightness: 600 vs 1000 nits HDR Lots of good stuff lost here :(</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=957f7cdaea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive</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=80c36b1963&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip and is working with TSMC to produce it, as part of a long-term plan to lower infrastructure costs</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2bf1dca667&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">$META Meta is testing its own AI training chip. Built with TSMC, the custom silicon could help Meta cut costs and reduce reliance on NVIDIA. If the test is successful, Meta may scale production. [image]</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=1f29ab732e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=38f1293c36&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The Crypto X AI narrative isn't just hype, it's very real. @CoinbaseDev AgentKit is a day 0 customer of thhe @openai Agents SDK, as announced in OpenAI's blog post today. Implementing onchain agentic actions is now trivial using the OpenAI AgentKit package. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=131ae9b3aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Today in definitions of “agent”, we had: 1. “systems that independently accomplish tasks on behalf of users” 2. “LLMs equipped with instructions and tools” Both from @OpenAI - the first from their blog post, the second from the docs for their new OpenAI Agents SDK</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99a646611d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">this is a tremendous accomplishment from the team. i am obviously biased but i think it's one of the most well-designed and useful APIs ever, and that people will really love it.</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=88a77f1733&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B, its largest-ever acquisition, in a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jaspreet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</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=0a63ff4072&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems, a Canadian maker of eye-tracking tech, for $115M, including $15M in performance-based payments</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </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=ff8046ef84&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Delivery Hero says Uber has terminated its $950M deal to acquire Foodpanda in Taiwan and will pay a ~$250M termination fee after Taiwan's FTC blocked the deal</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a02af2406&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Coinbase registers with India's FIU and plans to roll out its retail trading platform in India later in 2025, its second attempt to expand in the country</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sidhartha Shukla / </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=6ba562c121&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</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=bf59805d44&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's “not sure yet how/when it will get released”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Altman / </span><span class="pub_name">@sama</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=f9975d6e6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Columbia Journalism Review</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=85c9c867f0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</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=fa7c6d5849&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">After tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft made huge bets on AI, the gadget boom that started with the launch of Alexa in 2014 has largely fizzled</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Day / </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=624a6bfd0b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Court filings: Google owns a 14% stake in Anthropic but holds no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights; it aims to invest $750M more in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</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=cb25c7d926&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cerebras, Groq, and Big Tech target AI inference to challenge Nvidia; Barclays sees inference capex surpassing training in two years, reaching $208.2B in 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Bradshaw / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</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=9295199a41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models</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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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b9c0829deb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC for exchange trading, with both available in Thailand on March 16, signaling growing stablecoin adoption</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Liz Napolitano / </span><span class="pub_name">Decrypt</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=6fd625d81e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US buy up to 1M BTC</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sander Lutz / </span><span class="pub_name">Decrypt</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=57dfc9f251&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge, up 10x in 2024 per CoinGecko, vaulting it to the top tier of exchanges, as rivals question its growth</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jeff John Roberts / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</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=c5766a7d32&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: VCs with “locked” tokens are working with market makers to hedge their positions; Tokenomist: 2024's largest unlocks brought $5.4B+ into circulation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Weeks / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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robotics
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c9a3271210&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Amazon's growing array of warehouse robots, from robotic arms to heavy lift units and sorting machines; Amazon Robotics has rolled out 750K+ devices</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rafe Uddin / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</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=ae290bdbb1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">As automation and robotics undergo a revolution, a call to action for the US and the West, which are missing the new labor economy that China is set to capture</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dylan Patel / </span><span class="pub_name">SemiAnalysis</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=505cde2bca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Roof / </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=98abe662e4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Celestial AI, which aims to use light to speed up data transfer inside servers, raised $250M led by Fidelity at a $2.5B valuation, taking its funding to $515M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jane Lanhee Lee / </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=4efaaed71a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have “human-like” finesse, raised $95M at a $1.65B valuation, up from $1.4B in 2021, bringing total funding to ~$300M</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=43b19e9433&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Krisztian Sandor / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</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=299b873b33&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israeli-US cybersecurity startup Cybereason raised $120M led by SoftBank, Vision Fund 2, and Liberty; its now ex-CEO said in a lawsuit it was close to bankrupt</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Assaf Gilead / </span><span class="pub_name">Globes Online</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=d3ffe97b14&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Norm Ai, which develops AI agents focused on regulatory compliance, raised a $48M Series B led by Coatue, bringing its total amount raised to $87M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mike Wheatley / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</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=1002a29d26&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Neobank Zolve, which offers services for those moving to the US, raised a $51M Series B led by Creaegis and $200M in debt, and says it has 750,000 customers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </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=51042e354b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israeli startup Sola, which offers a low-code platform to build cybersecurity apps, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed co-led by S Capital and Mike Moritz</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ingrid Lunden / </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=a60350fcdc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3%</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Counterpoint Research</span>)</span>
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