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Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its services group in a rare move, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, as part of a shift in priorities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its se...

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Three child safety advocacy groups from the US, UK, and Canada say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Three child safety advocacy groups from the US, UK...

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Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of A...

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How call centers in the Philippines' vast outsourcing industry are adopting AI tools to assist human operators, in an effort to stay competitive (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

How call centers in the Philippines' vast outsourc...

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MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but the token draws backlash after users noticed it allows the issuer to remotely freeze the asset (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS sta...

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Source: last year, Meta abandoned plans to build its own custom chips for its AR glasses, instead opting to rely on third-party chipmakers like Qualcomm (Kali Hays/Fortune)

Source: last year, Meta abandoned plans to build i...

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Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republ...

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Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers (Joanna Nelius/The Verge)

Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that aut...

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Self-driving truck company TuSimple, which delisted from Nasdaq in January, reaches a $189M settlement of a suit alleging fraud by overstating safety and more (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Self-driving truck company TuSimple, which deliste...

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Web3 esports startup Gameplay Galaxy, focused on developing upcoming game Trial Xtreme Freedom, raised a $24M seed co-led by Blockchain Capital and Merit Circle (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)

Web3 esports startup Gameplay Galaxy, focused on d...

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Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help...

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Former staff of video games payments company Xsolla say in lawsuits that CEO Aleksandr Agapitov leans heavily on company revenue for his new, flashier lifestyle (Bloomberg)

Former staff of video games payments company Xsoll...

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The crypto industry, heavily reliant on Telegram, has been Pavel Durov's loudest defender after his arrest; the Telegram-linked TON coin has a $13.7B market cap (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

The crypto industry, heavily reliant on Telegram, ...

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Sources: ex-Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan, an industry veteran, left over what he considered a bloated workforce, risk-averse culture, and lagging AI strategy (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: ex-Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan, an indu...

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Cerebras launches the "world's fastest" AI inference service with "GPU-impossible performance", costing 10+ cents per million tokens, to rival Nvidia (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Cerebras launches the "world's fastest" AI inferen...

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Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Instagram now lets users add text to photos right ...

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Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-party AR tools and content platform that launched in 2017, effective January 14, 2025, angering some creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-...

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Snap rolls out a native Snapchat app for iPad, 13 years after launching on iOS; the app can only run in portrait mode (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Snap rolls out a native Snapchat app for iPad, 13 ...

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