The OnePlus Watch 3 launches in the US after it was pulled to fix the “Meda in China” typo, but for $500, up from $330 OnePlus had previously announced (Matt Horne/Android Authority)

Matt Horne / Android Authority:
The OnePlus Watch 3 launches in the US after it was pulled to fix the “Meda in China” typo, but for $500, up from $330 OnePlus had previously announced  —  OnePlus has refused to comment, but new 125% tariffs on the country where the device is made might be a big clue.  —  •

Source: ByteDance’s revenue from international operations, which are primarily TikTok, rose 63% to $39B in 2024; overall revenue grew 29% to $155B (The Information)

The Information:
Source: ByteDance’s revenue from international operations, which are primarily TikTok, rose 63% to $39B in 2024; overall revenue grew 29% to $155B  —  ByteDance’s revenue from international operations, which are primarily TikTok, rose 63% to $39 billion in 2024, said a person with knowledge of the company’s financials.

Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue” (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue”  —  Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators …

A look at the internal chaos behind Apple’s Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea’s AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally (Wayne Ma/The Information)

Wayne Ma / The Information:
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple’s Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea’s AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally  —  Last June, at Apple’s annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian’s Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt” (Sean O’Kane/TechCrunch)

Sean O’Kane / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian’s Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt”  —  The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway.  Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian …

Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for critical gaps in its AML program, particularly concerning risk-based controls and customer due diligence (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for critical gaps in its AML program, particularly concerning risk-based controls and customer due diligence  —  – Block, Inc. had AML gaps including failing to have risk-based controls to prevent money laundering and illicit activity as well as insufficient customer due diligence, NYDFS said.

Report details the internal chaos behind Apple’s Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea’s AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Report details the internal chaos behind Apple’s Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea’s AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally  —  A new report from The Information today reveals much of the internal turmoil behind Apple Intelligence’s revamped version of Siri.

Yield Sec: US online gross gambling revenue was $90.1B in 2024, of which $67.1B went to illegal casinos; unlicensed operators in California had $5.5B in revenue (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Yield Sec: US online gross gambling revenue was $90.1B in 2024, of which $67.1B went to illegal casinos; unlicensed operators in California had $5.5B in revenue  —  Illegal sports books and casinos took 74% of online gambling revenues in the US last year, outperforming licensed rivals through …

Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation  —  In the world of tech, some might argue that the term of the decade is AI, but in the bigger scheme of things beyond this single sector …