TechCrunch
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The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit
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US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B
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Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future
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Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company
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As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help
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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
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‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again
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Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
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Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools
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Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing
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Facebook makes it easier for creators to report impersonators
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Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films
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The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)
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Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics
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The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker
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Spotify will let you edit your Taste Profile to control your recommendations
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The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’
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Apple drops commission rates in China without a fuss
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The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam
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Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming
Techmeme
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Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
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Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
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A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
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TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)
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An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
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An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
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Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
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Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
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Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
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A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)
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The US Army awards Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B to buy its software, hardware, and services; the deal includes a 5-year optional ordering period (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)
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A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)
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A US judge questions Elon Musk's $134B claim for damages in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft but rules Musk can still make his case to a jury (Elon Musk/Financial Times)