ByteDance shares details about its "Project Swan" headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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ByteDance shares details about its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS  —  ByteDance's Pico announced the key display and compute specs of its “Project Swan” headset, coming later this year …

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Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios:
Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic has raised more than $60 billion from over 200 “venture capital” investors, half of which came just last month.

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Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

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Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9  —  Australia's internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail …

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Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity  —  The Israeli startup's platform turns employee workflows into structured knowledge for automation.  —  Guidde, a startup developing …

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Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement (New York Times)

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Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement  —  The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence.  But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.

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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)

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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall  —  DALIAN, China — Apps that enable parents to search for spouses for their unmarried children have become increasingly popular in China …

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An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more  —  Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days

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