Journals

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation  —  – Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says  —… Read More »Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier users of GeForce Now “up to two minutes” of video ads while waiting in queue to start a cloud gaming session  —  Nvidia’s completely free, no-strings attached trial of… Read More »Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier users of GeForce Now “up to two minutes” of video ads while waiting in queue to start a cloud gaming session (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Kali Hays / Business Insider: Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall  —  – Under an internal project named Orion, Meta has been… Read More »Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall (Kali Hays/Business Insider)

Alexis Ong / The Verge: A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined  —  The first computery thing I do… Read More »A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined (Alexis Ong/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini about the streamer’s focus on anime, working with creators in Japan, competing with Netflix, future plans, and more  —  The head of the fast-growing streaming service discusses the Funimation… Read More »Q&A with Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini about the streamer’s focus on anime, working with creators in Japan, competing with Netflix, future plans, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

RT Watson / The Block: Bloomberg data: BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF set a single day trading volume record of $1.3B+ on February 26, beating its launch day record of $1B+; BTC hits ~$55K  —  – The nine new spot bitcoin ETFs… Read More »Bloomberg data: BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF set a single day trading volume record of $1.3B+ on February 26, beating its launch day record of $1B+; BTC hits ~$55K (RT Watson/The Block)

Reuters: Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days  —  Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber… Read More »Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days (Reuters)

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: The US adds networking equipment company Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship  —  – Commerce Department largely bans tech firm from US purchases … Read More »The US adds networking equipment company Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The CTO for US Central Command says AI developed for Project Maven was used to narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2  —  – Algorithms were developed under the… Read More »The CTO for US Central Command says AI developed for Project Maven was used to narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023  —  Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted,… Read More »Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)