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Meta Creates New AI Unit to Accelerate Model Development
Meta is building a new applied artificial intelligence engineering organization that will partner with the company’s Superintelligence Lab to make AI models faster, The Wall Street Journal reported ...

Japan’s “Sanae Token” Scandal Tests Legal Limits of Political Memecoins
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi publicly disavowed a cryptocurrency bearing her name and likeness. The token crashed 58% within hours, and regulators moved to investigate the issuer. The epi...

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release
Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized genera...

New Housing Bill Prevents Federal Reserve From Issuing CBDC— But Only Until 2030
A new US housing bill includes a provision that temporarily bans the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar to consumers until 2030. The move represents a shift from previous strong opposi...

Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media
Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a de...

How the experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes
You can help fight the spread of fake news by following these newsroom tips. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Get...

Hyperliquid gold perps front-ran CME after Iran strikes and the Monday gap exposed a new weekend leader
On Feb. 28, coordinated strikes hit Iranian nuclear facilities while most benchmark commodity markets sat dark. Traditional gold futures on CME's COMEX exchange wouldn't reopen until Sunday evening Ce...

Best Buy Bets on AI as Consumers Avoid Big-Ticket Items
Best Buy is focused on digital innovation as shoppers continue to show caution. The electronics retailer released quarterly earnings results Tuesday (March 3) that showed a 0.8% dip in sale...

Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon
We’ve been writing about Section 230 for a very long time. We’ve written about why it matters, why the people attacking it are wrong, and why most of the proposed “reforms” would make the inte...

Hollywood Professional Association Concludes the 2026 HPA Tech Retreat with 800+ Industry Leaders and a Week Focused on the Future of Media Technology
The Hollywood Professional Association concluded the 2026 HPA Tech Retreat, convening more than 800 industry leaders, technologists, creatives and executives for five days of forward-looking dialogue ...

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