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Makena Kelly / Wired: Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of the system -
Steven Levy / Wired: Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more -
Steven Levy / Wired: Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while watching Claude think: planning ahead, confusion between safety and helpfulness goals, lying, more -
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work -
CNBC: CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order -
Financial Times: Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump -
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK on April 10; the company delayed the phone's launch to April to check “on a component quality issue” -
Victoria Song / The Verge: A US judge dismisses Samsung's Oura lawsuit, saying Samsung acted prematurely in seeking a judgment that Galaxy Ring doesn't infringe on Oura's patents -
Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges -
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing -
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns -
Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples: OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm” -
Sheon Han / Wired: How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints -
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech