India’s markets regulator is seeking broader powers from the government to remove unauthorised financial advice from social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, and to access their call records for investigations into market violations, a government source and a document reviewed by Reuters showed. This is the second time since 2022 that the Securities

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Google’s Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on Google’s path to AGI, future of Moore’s Law and TPUs, inference scaling, open research, and more  —  Two of Gemini’s co-leads on Google’s path to AGI  —  This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever,

JioHotstar, the new streaming platform created by bringing together JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar, was launched by JioStar on Friday. The newly created platform will host the entire content library of both the over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Apart from shows and movies from the two merging entities, the platform will also host content from various international studios

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bain Capital, Advent International, and EQT AB are among the PE firms competing to acquire Trend Micro, which has a market value of about $8.54B  —  Bain Capital, Advent International and EQT AB are among the private equity firms competing to acquire Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro … Source link

Anthropic introduced the Anthropic Economic Index on Monday to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the labour market and the economy. The initial report of the research reveals that software engineering fields are the most impacted by this new technology. The research found the arts, design, sports, entertainment, and media fields to be in

Katarina Hoije / Bloomberg: Central African Republic, the first in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as tender, launches CAR MEME on Solana, which traded at $0.03 on Feb. 11, down ~90% since launch  —  – CAR Meme is second cryptocurrency launched by the country  — Nation first in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as tender in 2022

Microsoft is under investigation from the French antitrust authority amid concerns the US tech giant is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products.   Officials are weighing if Microsoft has abused its power in the niche market for search-engine syndication and has quizzed rival

Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Powerbeats Pro 2 debut for $250 with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, ANC, better water resistance, a more comfortable and 20% lighter design than previous gen  —  Apple’s Beats brand is officially introducing the Powerbeats Pro 2 today, bringing significant updates to the wireless earphones aimed at active users. Source link

OpenAI is reportedly planning to manufacture its first custom artificial intelligence (AI) chipset this year. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm has begun the design process internally and is on track to complete the design of the processor in the next few months. The company’s main reason to fabricate custom AI chipsets

Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: Huawei’s Watch D2 sees a sales bump in China after users discovered it can be registered as a medical device, allowing it to be purchased via medical insurance  —  After the launch of Huawei’s new Watch D2 smartwatch in November, buyers discovered they can charge it to their medical insurance rather