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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)

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X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

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A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the "any lawful use" standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal (Jessica Tillipman)

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Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards (The Information)

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Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes (Apple)

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Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11 (Apple)

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AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)

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Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US (Reuters)

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Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Qualcomm forms a "strategic coalition" to launch 6G in 2029 and unveils FastConnect 8800, an "AI-native" Wi-Fi 8-ready NIC that doubles peak speeds over Wi-Fi 7 (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

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Anthropic says "a fix has been implemented" at 15:25 UTC after elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and some API methods starting at 11:49 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the company would void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

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ASML CTO Marco Pieters says ASML plans to expand beyond EUV into advanced packaging, bonding, and connecting, and is building AI-based machine inspection tools (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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The US-led Iran bombing campaign causes longer delivery times for Amazon, Shein, and others in the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude with one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans (Claude)

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A draft of Changpeng Zhao's unpublished memoir, "Freedom of Money", details the secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)

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Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above $71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a $465.2M net loss in 2024, after its IPO (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

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