Rajesh Pandey / Android Police:
Ahead of its rumored March 19 release, a YouTuber posts a video of an alleged Pixel 9a, showing a flat rear panel, minimal camera bump, and large bezels — – Detailed Pixel 9a unboxing and hands-on videos have been published on YouTube. — One YouTuber has put the phone through its paces …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” — AI start-up’s product head Mike Krieger says $60bn company is preparing to release features aimed at enterprise market
Nikkei Asia:
PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B — India emerges as Asia’s No. 2 market for artificial intelligence dealmaking — PALO ALTO, California …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
A RevenueCat report, covering data from 75K+ mobile apps and $10B+ in revenue across 1B+ transactions, shows most apps fail to reach $1K/month after two years — If you’re frustrated by some of your favorite apps pestering you to sign up for a subscription, some new data may help you empathize with their developers more.
New York Times:
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations — Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a ~$4B valuation, doubling its $2B valuation from April 2024 — The new funding round is being led by 8VC, the Joe Lonsdale-backed venture capital firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack “requires no authentication” — A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat tracked as CVE-2025-24813 is actively exploited in the wild …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works — More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
