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PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B (Nikkei Asia)

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A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month after two years (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobil...

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San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to m...

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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was "donated", as some cite security concerns (New York Times)

Starlink is now accessible across the White House ...

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Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a ~$4B valuation, doubling its $2B valuation from April 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant D...

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In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others "exploit" copyrighted works (Todd Spangler/Variety)

In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400...

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A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack "requires no authentication" (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploit...

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Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seei...

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Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that DeepSeek is banned on their government devices (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed s...

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Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by ruling Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on Amazon.com (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching...

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President Trump's World Liberty Financial says it raised $250M in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

President Trump's World Liberty Financial says it ...

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation (Zhiye Liu/Tom's Hardware)

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2...

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Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS supp...

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Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter ...

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Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire ...

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Source: Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of post-training at OpenAI, is leaving the company to found a startup focused on using AI to discover new materials (The Information)

Source: Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of po...

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Source: Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of post-training at OpenAI, is leaving the company to found a startup focused on using AI to discover new materials (The Information)

Source: Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of po...

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Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites in February rose 1,200% from July 2024; 39% of US consumers used generative AI for shopping, 53% plan to do so (Mike Pastore/Search Engine Land)

Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites ...

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