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Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, raised a $300M Series D led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation; CEO Winston Weinberg says ARR surpassed $50M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews related activities conducted since 2017, to comply with Trump's January 20 EO on "ending federal censorship" (Eric Geller/Wired)

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Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 2025, a $6/month add-on that will include higher-quality audio, early access to concert tickets, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Sources detail Sam Altman and Elon Musk's disintegrating relationship and how Altman secretly worked around Musk to blindside him with the Stargate announcement (Wall Street Journal)

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Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake and fully running Intel's US factories after a Trump team request, as Trump aims to boost manufacturing (Bloomberg)

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Perplexity releases Deep Research, offering five queries daily to free users and 500 to subscribers, available now on the web and soon on iOS, Android, and Mac (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business (New York Times)

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New York Times: Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TS...

Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book licensing efforts in April 2023 after contacting publishers and seeing "slow uptake" and logistical setbacks (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book li...

Filing: Trump Media reports 2024 revenue down 12% YoY to $3.6M and a $400M net loss, up from $58.2M in 2023; the company has a $6.6B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B led by Align Ventures and Parkway VC at a $39.5B valuation, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B l...

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that would block Google from investing in AI startups, saying it would harm Anthropic and the competition (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that...

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OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, saying they reject "Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition" (New York Times)

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New York Times: OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a conso...

How crypto companies like Coinbase co-opted legitimate concerns about "debanking" to fight regulation, threatening to derail meaningful progress on the issue (Molly White/Citation Needed)

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Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of anticompetitive practices like coercing restaurants to exclusively work with DoorDash for parts of their delivery business (Heather Haddon/Wall Street Journal)

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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of antic...

Sources: Apple's overhaul of Siri faces engineering problems and software bugs; some features, planned for April, may have to be postponed until May or later (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple's overhaul of Siri faces engineering pro...

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's overhaul of Siri faces engineering p...

OpenAI's board rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, saying they reject "Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition" (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Meta announces Project Waterworth, a subsea cable project that will span over 50,000 km and connect five continents (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Google deactivates an Android feature that crowdsources device sensor data to provide earthquake warnings in Brazil after mistakenly sending notifications (Taylor Kerns/Android Police)

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Source: xAI is canvassing potential investors, including Sequoia Capital and a16z, for a roughly $10B funding round that would value the company at about $75B (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

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Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake in Intel's factories at the request of Trump's team; it is unclear whether Intel is open to a transaction (Bloomberg)

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The AI Action Summit in Paris was all about investment and competition as the Trump administration made even a token acknowledgment of AI safety unacceptable (Madeline Renbarger/Newcomer)

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Madeline Renbarger / Newcomer: The AI Action Summit in Paris was all about inv...

DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

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Vittoria Elliott / Wired: DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assi...

Sources: Dell nears a $5B deal to provide servers with Nvidia's GB200 chips for xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it says is a "source of concern" for some and "highly requested" by others (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it ...

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