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Adobe agrees to pay $75M to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Banking, manufacturing, and other EU businesses warn "tech sovereignty" could hit profits and competitiveness as Brussels aims to cut reliance on US tech giants (Financial Times)

Uber is relaunching a robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas; the service will have a safety driver behind the wheel until the end of 2026 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

STMicro says it will retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub (Bloomberg)

China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use (Reuters)

Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including of a VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, that helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)

Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+ (Wall Street Journal)

The European Commission says "X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark" in the EU and the commission will now "assess the proposed remedies" (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs (Pew Research Center)

Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)

Apple is lowering its commission for its App Store in mainland China from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, "following discussions with the Chinese regulator" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.4B, vs. $6.28B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and forecasts Q2 revenue between $6.43B and $6.48B, vs. $6.43B est. (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region (Bloomberg)

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by "the middle of this year" (The Information)

Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade (Georgie McKay/Bloomberg)

Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would "pollute" the DOD's supply chain because they have "a different policy preference" that is baked in (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)

A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)

Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Michael Dell says "I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools", responding to a question on the Anthropic feud (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin (Martin Coulter/Sifted)

Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M (Bloomberg)

Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only "Sassy" option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)

Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)

BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)