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💰 Meta signs $27 billion AI infrastructure deal with Nebius 🔞 OpenAI advisers alarmed by adult content plans 🎧 Apple unveils the AirPods Max 2 🤖 Pokémon Go data now guides delivery robots ⏸️ ByteDance pauses Seedance 2.0 🎁 + 12 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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💰 Meta signs $27 billion AI infrastructure deal with Nebius
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- Meta has agreed to pay up to $27 billion over five years for AI infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group, marking one of the largest single contracts the company has ever signed.
- Nebius will provide $12 billion in dedicated capacity starting in early 2027, while Meta also committed to buying up to $15 billion in additional capacity built for third-party customers.
- Meta and its biggest tech peers are expected to spend around $650 billion in 2026 on data centers and related infrastructure, as the company competes with OpenAI and Google.
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🔞 OpenAI advisers alarmed by adult content plans
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- OpenAI's own advisory council on well-being reacted with alarm to the company's plans for an "adult mode" in ChatGPT, with one member warning it risked creating a "sexy suicide coach."
- The company delayed adult mode partly because its age-prediction system was misclassifying minors as adults about 12% of the time, potentially exposing millions of under-18 users to erotic chats.
- OpenAI staffers internally identified risks including compulsive use, emotional overreliance on the chatbot, a drive toward more extreme content, and crowding out offline social and romantic relationships.
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🎧 Apple unveils the AirPods Max 2
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- Apple announced the AirPods Max 2 on Monday, a $549 pair of premium headphones with the H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and live translation, available for pre-order starting March 25.
- The new headphones offer active noise cancellation that is up to 1.5x more effective than the original, along with Adaptive Audio that adjusts ANC and Transparency based on your surroundings.
- Other features include Camera Remote, which lets you trigger your iPhone or iPad's camera shutter by pressing the Digital Crown, and support for 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio over USB-C.
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🤖 Pokémon Go data now guides delivery robots
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- Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, is repurposing location data and street-level imagery collected from Pokémon Go players to help Coco Robotics guide its sidewalk delivery robots through dense cities.
- The visual positioning system was trained on roughly 30 billion crowdsourced images from Pokémon Go and Ingress, letting robots pinpoint their location to within a few centimeters using cameras instead of GPS.
- Coco operates about a thousand sidewalk robots across US and European cities, and the company plans to fuse GPS with Niantic Spatial's camera-based localization to improve reliability on routes.
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⏸️ ByteDance pauses Seedance 2.0
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- ByteDance has delayed the worldwide release of its AI video model Seedance 2.0, which launched in China in February, as the company works to avoid further legal problems.
- Videos generated by the model went viral, including a clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, which drew a wave of cease-and-desist letters from Hollywood studios like Disney.
- Disney's lawyers accused ByteDance of a "virtual smash-and-grab" of its IP, and the company promised to introduce stronger safeguards for intellectual property before expanding access.
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China’s JD.com Takes On Amazon With Launch Of Joybuy In Europe
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Grandmother spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition misidentified her
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‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’
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STMicro to deploy humanoid robots to its legacy fabs in Europe — over 100 humanoid robots to be used for routine and physically demanding tasks in fight for efficiency
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Gig workers are getting paid to film their daily chores to train robots
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Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Plugin Company MotionVFX
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Encyclopaedia Britannica sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles to train its AI models
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The billionaires made a promise — now some want out
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Hua Hong becomes the second Chinese chipmaker to crack 7nm manufacturing as Beijing pushes for AI independence
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🧰 Trending tools
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MuleRun: a continuously learning personal AI that runs on dedicated cloud infrastructure, adapting to your work patterns and proactively handling tasks while you're offline.
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Glam AI: generates on-trend social media visuals from your photos using pre-built templates and multiple AI models, eliminating prompt engineering for fast content creation.
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GLM-5-Turbo: a free platform to test MIT-licensed GLM models including base, reasoning, and rumination variants through a straightforward chat interface for developers.
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JetBrains Air: a cloud-based development environment that lets you code in JetBrains IDEs through your browser without local installation or setup.
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Donely: a free managed OpenClaw container with app integrations and AI-powered auto-repair, charging only for AI credits you actually consume.
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Hackerbrief: a daily digest that automatically summarizes the top posts from Hacker News into a single brief.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Robotic flower tracking achieves 92% accuracy identifying individual flowers across multiple days in vertical farms, enabling automated pollination and yield monitoring for crops like strawberries.
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> Invariant Risk Minimization trains machine learning models to find patterns that hold across different environments rather than exploiting spurious correlations, improving accuracy when test data differs from training data.
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