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X experiences intermittent outages early on March 10, including in the US, the UK, France, and India; over 40K US users reported issues on Down Detector (Charles Capel/Bloomberg)

X experiences intermittent outages early on March ...

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SCOTUS refuses to hear BMC's appeal and revive a $1.6B award against IBM, which was accused by BMC of poaching a client in violation of a licensing agreement (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

SCOTUS refuses to hear BMC's appeal and revive a $...

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Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told associates he isn't in a hurry to get investment, including from government entities, fearing outside influence (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told assoc...

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Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics t...

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iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved keyboard, better screen, performance, and multitasking than the base iPad, but no Face ID and can get expensive (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)

iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved key...

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Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 (NBC News)

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, ...

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Detroit-based real estate platform Rocket plans to buy Redfin, a home search service and adtech brokerage, for $1.75B, or $12.50 per share, closing in Q2 or Q3 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)

Detroit-based real estate platform Rocket plans to...

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Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release (Nate Rattner/Wall Street Journal)

Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in Jan...

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Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support (Steve Yegge/@steve_yegge)

Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in...

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Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush to launch stablecoins; there are ~$210B in stablecoins issued globally, including Tether printing $142B (Financial Times)

Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush...

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A look at China's heavy-handed and sometimes intrusive approach to crack down on telecom and online scams, including intercepting calls and messages (Bloomberg)

A look at China's heavy-handed and sometimes intru...

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How neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram Collective and a network of chats and channels, targeted a teen in Slovakia, and groomed him to kill (ProPublica)

How neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Te...

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Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reasoning LLM, trained in four weeks with support from Nvidia via its Taiwan-based supercomputer and consulting (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reason...

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President Trump says "we're dealing with four different groups" for the sale of TikTok; Trump signed an EO on January 20 to delay the TikTok ban by 75 days (Reuters)

President Trump says "we're dealing with four diff...

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Sources: workflow automation company ServiceNow nears deal to buy enterprise AI assistants company Moveworks in a deal that could value Moveworks at ~$3B (Bloomberg)

Sources: workflow automation company ServiceNow ne...

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Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf: current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem-solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf: current AI de...

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PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest investment pace since 2021, with $30B+ invested into startups so far this quarter and $50B more in the works (George Hammond/Financial Times)

PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest in...

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Some early users of Manus say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Some early users of Manus say the agentic AI is no...

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