Bloomberg:
Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it may face delisting or index removals — – Firms on Chinese military list face delisting, index removals — Some Chinese firms successfully fought to be taken off list
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025” (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025” — Qualcomm Inc. introduced new chips designed to power personal computers capable of running the latest artificial …
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” …
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025 — Alphabet Inc.’s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an AI upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system.
Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn’t say how it calculate MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn’t say how it calculate MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable — Tubi continued to gain traction in 2024, surpassing 97 million monthly active users and 10 billion streaming hours.
Microsoft is showing a Bing search result page that mimics Google Search UI when a user searches for “Google” on Bing while not signed into a Microsoft account (Mayank Parmar/Windows Latest)
Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest:
Microsoft is showing a Bing search result page that mimics Google Search UI when a user searches for “Google” on Bing while not signed into a Microsoft account — Microsoft seems to have rolled out a pretty interesting yet controversial change that spoofs Google.com UI when you try to find Google when using Bing.com.
Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025 — Ring has announced a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that connect …
Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” (Jon Henley/The Guardian)
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” — French president accuses world’s richest man of intervening directly in continent’s democratic processes
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders’ personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don’t pay, throwing China’s funding ecosystem into crisis (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders’ personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don’t pay, throwing China’s funding ecosystem into crisis — Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft’s Copilot+ (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft’s Copilot+ — Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility. — Intel’s Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between …
