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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b04853e8b2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO, effective March 18, and says he'll rejoin the board; INTC jumps 11%+ after hours</a></span>
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<span class="excerpt">Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) on Wednesday named former board member Lip-Bu Tan … </span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eb51fec325&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">A few quick takes on incoming $INTC CEO Lip-Bu Tan: 1/ He has the pedigree...a combo design + fab/foundry experience. Not too many of those around. He is a semi icon... 3/The first thing Tan needs to do is determine if/when there will be a split and whether Intel will remain in foundry and even fab</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c2098cfc94&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan: “I am joining because I believe with every fiber of my being that we have what it takes to win. Intel plays an essential role in the technology ecosystem, both in the US and around the world” $INTC: +11% AH [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=7734260f90&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Niantic Labs says it is selling its video game division, including Pokémon Go, to Saudi Arabia-owned developer Scopely for $3.5B, subject to regulatory approval</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d77612247c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Today we're announcing two very important updates to @NianticLabs . First, we're thrilled to share that we've reached an agreement to sell Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Scopely for a total transaction value of $3.85 billion. Scopely has a long history of building amazing games and we know they will be excellent caretakers of the 100M+ players and rich communities that play and love our titles. Second, we're introducing Niantic Spatial, our go-forward company focused on unlocking the opportunities and enterprise value at the intersection of geo and AI</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=87ca9d0698&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I am in two minds about this. Niantic in recent years have been making decisions that have damaged Pokémon GO while pushing Niantic's core beliefs, and it's resulted in tickets for every event to make up for it. However, I'm hesitant due to monetisation in Scopely's other games</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=560a47e828&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils Gemma 3, the “world's best single-accelerator model”, running on a single GPU, in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and says it outperforms Llama-405B</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=060b07fd0f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Gemma 3 is here! Our new open models are incredibly efficient - the largest 27B model runs on just one H100 GPU. You'd need at least 10x the compute to get similar performance from other models ⬇️ [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2ab0a4048d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Highest intelligence compression we have seen in any open model. (Also beats o3-mini). Multimodal. Multilingual. Tool calls. Weights on huggingface. So many reasons to be excited about this! [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=cce3d1a890&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US FTC says it will meet the deadlines for its Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, hours after asking a judge for a delay due to staffing shortfalls</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Annie Palmer / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=c156e8ee1a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: an Xbox-branded Asus handheld may debut this year as part of Microsoft's effort to unify Windows and Xbox into a universal library of Xbox and PC games</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </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=e02ff27c62&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the FTC moves ahead with an antitrust probe of Microsoft opened by Lina Khan, signaling that new Chair Andrew Ferguson prioritizes Big Tech scrutiny</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=fdde8d2039&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Binance says Abu Dhabi's MGX acquired a minority stake for $2B, the first institutional investment in the exchange and MGX's first entry into the crypto</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Olga Kharif / </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=45b24ae801&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google updates Chrome's extension rules to ban affiliate link injection without user action or benefit, after Honey allegedly stole creators' affiliate revenue</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </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=5d3fd628e7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Welch / </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=e419226507&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon, Google, and Meta sign a pledge, alongside Occidental, Dow, and others, to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050; Microsoft and Apple didn't sign</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=822c325135&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024, “the largest in music history”, making up 60%+ of its $17.13B+ 2024 revenue, with ~1,500 artists earning $1M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anna Nicolaou / </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=782860f128&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership</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=32d6a8f426&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Food delivery startup Wonder acquires the media company Tastemade, sources say for around $90M, the latest step in its effort to create a mealtime “super app”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Deighton / </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=1bbf231a14&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $5.71B, vs. $5.66B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.23B, and issues a disappointing outlook for Q2 revenue growth</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</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=8401b1b8bd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI models on their books without consent, say they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Benoit Berthelot / </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=ad49e9d84d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thoughts on using LLMs for coding, which can often be difficult and unintuitive, and why “vibe coding” is a fantastic way to explore the capabilities of LLMs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Willison / </span><span class="pub_name">Simon Willison's Weblog</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=15e60b4859&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spain's government approves a bill, pending lower house assent, imposing fines of up to €35M or 7% of annual turnover on firms not labeling AI-generated content</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Latona / </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=90a928e937&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used to track ~6M US students, isn't always secure, and there's no research showing it boosts safety</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Associated Press</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=8577400d89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bengaluru is becoming an AI talent hub as overseas startups compete with Big Tech; Bain & Co predicts India's AI talent gap will reach 1M workers by 2027</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Saritha Rai / </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=c3e2c363ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alibaba demos R1-Omni, an open-source model that its Tongyi Lab researchers say can read emotions, building on HumanOmni, in a bid to compete with OpenAI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Luz Ding / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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social networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=313e2f72e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Snapchat introduces AI video Lenses, powered by Snap's in-house generative video model, available to subscribers of the $16/month Snapchat Platinum tier</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </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=2e9e712282&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">BeReal CEO Aymeric Roffe says Japan is now the photo sharing app's second-largest market with over 4.5M MAUs, 83% aged 14 to 27; BeReal has 40M users globally</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chihiro Ishikawa / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</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=4c72b5c8be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $15B valuation, and reached $400M ARR in 2024</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=cf42e856c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Supabase, which bills itself as an open-source alternative to Google's Firebase, is raising $100M+ in a round led by Accel, valuing the company at ~$2B</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=5c729335b8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ditto, which aims to enable “resilient” edge device connectivity, raised an $82M Series B at a $462M post-money valuation, after a $45M Series A in April 2023</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Sawers / </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=6f03f2b449&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cartesia, which is developing real-time generative AI models for voice AI, raised a $64M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $91M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </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=530556257a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify short-form video editing for creators, raised $20M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $215M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Riddhi Kanetkar / </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=fff50d8dc8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The FCC is creating a security council to bolster US defenses against cyberattacks and help it stay ahead of China in critical technologies, such as AI and 5G</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Demetri Sevastopulo / </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=a6675135e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mike Verdu, who joined Netflix in 2021 to launch its game offering and took on a new role as VP of Generative AI for games four months ago, has left the company</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephen Totilo / </span><span class="pub_name">Game File</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=26f0aa03ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">After Palantir's stock jumped 350%+ in 2024, founder Alex Karp has sold $1.9B in shares since January 2024; VerityData says his PLTR holdings are worth $12.8B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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