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Bobby Allyn / NPR: A US federal judge rejects OpenAI's request to dismiss the NYT's lawsuit, allowing the main copyright infringement claims to go forward while narrowing the suit  —  A federal judge on Wednesday rejected OpenAI's request to toss out a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times that alleges …

Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: A software update for some Amazon Kindle models lets users double-tap the sides or back of the device to turn pages in books or scroll down in Home and Library  —  The Kindle now has new features: Recaps for Books in Series and Double Tap to Page Turn.  — AMAZON KINDLE,

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: State and former US officials say satellite internet like Starlink's may cut upfront costs for the $42B rural broadband program but could cost more long term  —  The Trump administration is making changes to a $42 billion broadband subsidy program that will benefit satellite internet providers …

Financial Times: As the EU considers funding a Starlink rival, experts say no single European network can match Starlink's range, likely requiring a patchwork of satellites  —  Brussels wants to create a homegrown alternative to Starlink with satellite groups such as Eutelsat

Bloomberg: BMW partners with Alibaba to use Qwen-powered AI cockpit tech from Alibaba-backed Banma in its upcoming car models for the Chinese market, rolling out next year  —  BMW will adopt AI cockpit technology from Alibaba-backed Banma for its upcoming models tailored for the Chinese market, the companies said Wednesday in a joint statement.

Financial Times: Docs: China's new energy rules could block the use of Nvidia's H20 chips in new data centers if implemented strictly, risking Nvidia's $17B/year China business  —  US chipmaker could suffer $17bn-a-year hit to business if energy efficiency rules are enforced more strictly

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon unveils Interests, an AI search tool for finding products by passion or hobby, rolling out to all US users, and is testing a chatbot called Health AI  —  Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe …

Reuters: The US adds six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China's top cloud provider, and dozens of other Chinese entities to its export blacklist; Inspur was added in 2023  —  The U.S. added six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China's leading cloud computing and big data service provider …

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude  —  Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block …

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets teens send reports of their chatbot usage to their parents, including which bots they are talking to  —  They won't see the contents of the chats. … Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature …

TechCrunch: Leaked email: Block lays off 931 employees, ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, in a second reorganization in just over a year  —  Fintech Block laid off 931 people, roughly 8% of the company's staff, on Tuesday, according to a leaked message from the company seen by TechCrunch.

Erin Brodwin / Axios: NY-based Silna, which provides healthcare revenue cycle management software, emerges from stealth with a $22M Series A co-led by Accel and Bain and a $5M seed  —  Revenue automation company Silna Health raised $27 million in seed and Series A funding, CEO Jeffrey Morelli tells Axios exclusively.

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: In an addendum to the GPT-4o system card, OpenAI says it is not blocking the image generation of adult public figures and that public figures can opt out  —  Introducing 4o Image Generation.  When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality …

Bloomberg: Sources: Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its technology  —  In private meetings and confidential filings to regulators on three continents, Qualcomm is arguing that Arm — its biggest supplier …

Yun Li / CNBC: GameStop says its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash, and it hasn't set a ceiling on how much bitcoin it may purchase  —  Video game retailer GameStop announced Tuesday its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash …

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Ripple says it agreed to settle a US SEC civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities and pay just $50M of a previously imposed $125M fine  —  Ripple Labs agreed to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities …

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: YouTube was the #1 TV distributor in February, making up 11.6% of all US TV; viewers over age 50 accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV  —  The service supplants Disney atop the Nielsen list for the second time.  —  YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider …

Financial Times: Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules, says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia chips entering the country, suspecting many are ending up in China  —  Trade minister says Washington suspects high-end semiconductors are making it to China despite trade controls

Bloomberg: Source: South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI rejected an $800M takeover offer from Meta, opting to grow independently instead  —  Korean chip startup FuriosaAI has turned down an $800 million takeover offer from Meta Platforms Inc., choosing instead to grow the business as an independent company …

Harry Suhartono / Bloomberg: 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to “maximize the value of its business”; co-founder Anne Wojcicki steps down as CEO  —  The Silicon Valley-based firm commenced Chapter 11 proceedings in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to “maximize the value of its business,” according to a statement.

Emma Bowman / NPR: A look at the Internet Archive, which sees ~100TB of material uploaded daily and has cataloged ~73K US government website pages that the Trump admin expunged  —  SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page …

Zack Abrams / The Block: The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction fees hit an all-time low on March 22, amid dips in other network metrics like active addresses  —  - The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum as a result of transaction fees hit an all-time low on Saturday, indicating low demand for the network's blockspace.

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Retail investors often bear the brunt of losses in the Solana blockchain's memecoin market, which is plagued by insider trading, rug pulls, and “sniping”  —  Rug pulls.  Sniping.  Trading “cabals.”  The niche world of memecoins on the Solana blockchain is rife with danger …

Wes Davis / The Verge: Google is rolling out new real-time AI video features, including the ability to “see” screens and camera feeds, for Gemini Advanced subscribers  —  Gemini can ‘see’ screens and camera feeds in real-time for some Google One AI Premium subscribers now.