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An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times : An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the fut...

31 March 2025

Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
Microsoft expands Copilot+ PC features like Live Captions and Cocreator, previously exclusive to models with Snapdragon chips, to models with AMD or Intel chips  —  Staggered feature releases make me ask “what even is a Copilot+ PC?”  —  Microsoft has a big update for Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel or AMD processors.

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At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more  —  Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said the chipmaker will spin off assets that aren't central to its mission and create …

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Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI's $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025's end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI's $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025's end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive  —  OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, said it has finalized a funding round that will bring in $40 billion …

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Trump signs an EO to establish an office within the Commerce Department to facilitate investments above $1B in the US and administer funds from the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Trump signs an EO to establish an office within the Commerce Department to facilitate investments above $1B in the US and administer funds from the CHIPS Act  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish an office within the Commerce Department to facilitate and speed …

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OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B (CNBC)

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OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B  —  OpenAI on Monday announced it had closed what amounts to the largest private tech funding round on record.

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Tampa-based ReliaQuest, which provides AI-powered cybersecurity tools, raised $500M+ in a funding round led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital, valuing it at $3.4B (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Tampa-based ReliaQuest, which provides AI-powered cybersecurity tools, raised $500M+ in a funding round led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital, valuing it at $3.4B  —  Armed with AI agents, ReliaQuest's platform detects and responds to cyberattacks within minutes, company says

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Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1B+ (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1B+  —  Sesame AI is discussing a funding round of more than $200 million, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital.

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TL;DR: we are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months, and we want to talk to devs about how to make it maximally useful: https://openai.com/... we are excited to make this a very, very good model! __ we are planning to (Sam Altman/@sama)

Sam Altman / @sama:
TL;DR: we are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months, and we want to talk to devs about how to make it maximally useful: https://openai.com/... we are excited to make this a very, very good model! __ we are planning to

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to "release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months”  —  OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.”  —  That's according to a feedback form …

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Sam Altman says "we added one million users in the last hour", following last week's Images for ChatGPT launch; over the weekend he said "our GPUs are melting" (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Sam Altman says “we added one million users in the last hour”, following last week's Images for ChatGPT launch; over the weekend he said “our GPUs are melting”  —  Last week, OpenAI released Images for ChatGPT which led to an explosion of interest thanks to its ability …

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How JioHotstar became India's most popular streamer, with 100M subscribers paying less than $1/month on average, via a freemium model, micro dramas, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
How JioHotstar became India's most popular streamer, with 100M subscribers paying less than $1/month on average, via a freemium model, micro dramas, and more  —  More than 100 million people now subscribe to India's largest paid video service.  —  Good evening from Mumbai …

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Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app that features Apple-curated media, with "new content released regularly", and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app that features Apple-curated media, with “new content released regularly”, and more  —  Alongside iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, Apple is also rolling out visionOS 2.4 for Apple Vision Pro users today.

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Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which adds support for eight more languages, Ambient Music via Control Center, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which adds support for eight more languages, Ambient Music via Control Center, more  —  Apple today released iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the fourth major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating system updates …

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Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes  —  Substack continues to double down on video amid TikTok's uncertain future in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it's rolling out a scrollable video feed in its app …

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Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer  —  Alexa+, Amazon's AI-enhanced voice assistant, will launch to some customers Monday, though not every feature will be available right away

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Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M  —  Chip startup Retym has raised $75 million this year as part of $180 million in total funding the company is using to pursue networking chips …

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Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe  —  TAIPEI — U.S. contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan's No. 2 chipmaker …

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Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more  —  AI startup Runway on Monday released what it claims is one of the highest-fidelity AI-powered video generators yet.

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Cerebras says it has resolved "all open issues" with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42 (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42  —  G42 also planned to buy more than 22 million shares in Cerebras.  The Sunnyvale, California-based company had said the arrangement …

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Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch:
Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation  —  Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform …

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Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility (Kevin Beaumont/DoublePulsar)

Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar:
Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility  —  Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open.

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AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers  —  Chip giant CEO Lisa Su says AI is still in its ‘very early stages’ as the company revs up competition with Nvidia

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Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK  —  Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions.

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How the Trump family took over World Liberty Financial, which raised $550M+ via governance tokens; the family has a claim on 75% of net revenues of token sales (Reuters)

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How the Trump family took over World Liberty Financial, which raised $550M+ via governance tokens; the family has a claim on 75% of net revenues of token sales  —  As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump's family took control of the crypto venture …

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Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown (Georgina Quach/Financial Times)

Georgina Quach / Financial Times:
Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown  —  Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems  —  Britain's biggest banks, technology and telecoms companies …

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Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders  —  The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.

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