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Spotify begins accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Sources: X's financials showing a ~$1.4B profit given to investors fall outside corporate accounting norms; the 2023 figures were audited, but 2024 was not (Bloomberg)

Sources: X's financials showing a ~$1.4B profit given t...

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The US SEC announces the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit to protect investors from bad actors in crypto and AI, replacing the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

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Twitch plans to implement a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads from April 19, automatically deleting content from streamers who exceed the limit (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Twitch plans to implement a 100-hour storage cap for Hi...

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Spotify will begin accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Spotify will begin accepting AI-narrated audiobooks rec...

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify will begin accepting AI-narrated audioboo...

Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach Ameri...

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teac...

AI hiring startup Mercor, founded by 21-year-old Thiel fellow Brendan Foody, raised $100M led by Felicis at a $2B valuation, up from $250M in September 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Amazon plans to discontinue its app store for Android and its Coins digital currency, used to purchase games and apps, on August 20, 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says the company hit 400M weekly active users in February 2025, up from 300M in December 2024, and 2M paying enterprise customers (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says the company hit 400M week...

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Sources: a US grand jury is investigating criminal misconduct at fintech Synapse, where up to $96M in user funds went missing, and has questioned an executive (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)

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The European Commission approves €920M in German state aid to Infineon to build a new chip plant in Dresden, set to reach full capacity in 2031 (Reuters)

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Meta says Mark Zuckerberg went to the US Capitol on February 19 to lobby Senators on AI and talk about issues like US tech leadership (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

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Investigation: Google's Display & Video 360 ad platform lets users target Americans' sensitive personal data, despite Google's rules against such practices (Wired)

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Wired: Investigation: Google's Display & Video 360 ad platform lets users targ...

Together AI, which provides users access to AI computing, raised $305M co-led by General Catalyst and Saudi Arabia's Prosperity7 at a $3.3B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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US survey: views of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk tilt negative; Democrats and Republicans view Zuckerberg unfavorably; Musk is polarizing along party lines (Pew Research Center)

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Oppo launches the Find N5, the world's thinnest foldable at 8.93mm closed and 4.21mm open, with IPX6, X8, and X9 ratings, in Europe and Asia for ~$1,870 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Tokyo-based Sakana AI details its AI CUDA Engineer, which it says can speed up AI training and inference by 10x to 100x by "breeding" efficient instructions (Nikkei Asia)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI details its AI CUDA Engineer, whi...

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Nikkei Asia: Tokyo-based Sakana AI details its AI CUDA Engineer, which it says...

Meta says Mark Zuckerberg went to the US Capitol on February 19 to lobby Senators on AI and talk about issues like US tech leadership and ending DEI programs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

Meta says Mark Zuckerberg went to the US Capitol on Feb...

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Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Meta says Mark Zuckerberg went to the US Capitol o...

Sources: Google is close to deciding on locations in India for its first physical retail stores outside the US; the company currently has five stores (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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CISA and the FBI: attackers deploying Ghost ransomware breached victims from multiple industry sectors across 70+ countries, including critical infrastructure (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Chinese game giant NetEase reports Q4 net profit up 33% YoY to ~$1.2B, above ~$1.05B est., and revenue down 1.4%, a sign its gaming business is turning around (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

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Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: Chinese game giant NetEase reports Q4 net pr...

Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$38.6B, the fastest growth in over a year and above ~$38B est., and a ~$6.7B net income, as AI boosts its business (Bloomberg)

Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$38.6B, the fa...

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Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$38.6B, the fastest growth...

Rabbit R1 maker Rabbit demos its "generalist Android agent", showing it controlling apps on a tablet, building on its LAM Playground, a "generalist web agent" (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Rabbit R1 maker Rabbit demos its "generalist Android ag...

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Wes Davis / The Verge: Rabbit R1 maker Rabbit demos its “generalist Android ag...

Global Witness: ahead of German elections, TikTok's and X's For You feeds showed a substantial far-right bias; 78% of TikTok's recommendations supported the AfD (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Global Witness: ahead of German elections, TikTok's and...

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