March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday withdrew its planned rule on AI chip exports, according to a government website. Read full story

March 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Read full story

BRUSSELS, March 13 (Reuters) - Europe on Friday took the first step towards outlawing artificial intelligence practices which generate child sexual abuse material after EU governments proposed to add this provision to the bloc's landmark AI rules adopted two years ago. Read full story

March 13 (Reuters) - Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, on Friday launched his startup, Atoms, focused on specialized industrial robotics designed to automate tasks in the mining, transport and food sectors. Read full story

Rollable smartphone concepts have come and gone in the past few years, but we've yet to see an actual product using a rollable display (there are, however, rollable-screen laptops already). While the rollable smartphone concepts we've seen thus far have all rolled the screen out of the side, vivo has patented something else entirely - a rollable screen that becomes longer, not wider. The vivo rollable device pictured in the patent application becomes taller as you roll out the screen, which is ..

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March 13 (Reuters) - SpaceX and the banks underwriting its blockbuster IPO have chosen two law firms to provide legal advice on the deal, one of the first concrete steps companies take when preparing a public listing, two people familiar with the plans said. Read full story

HarmonyOS expands from smartphones to PCs, showing tenfold growth potential, leveraging Huaweis ecosystem, and reaching almost one billion devices.

Apple kicked off global, in-person 50th Anniversary celebrations with a surprise Alicia Keys concert at its iconic Grand Central store and Tim Cook is embracing celebrating Apple's past.

Meta plans to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram direct messages by May 8, 2026. "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months," says Meta. "Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end- to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp." The Hacker News reports: The American company first began testing E2EE for Instagram direct messages in 2021 as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ..

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Travis Kalanick is renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms, while focusing on robotics for mining and transportation.

She made a full recovery, despite the maggots.

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.

OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create. Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the model a second life, and ideally grow the ChatGPT app's weekly active users from the 900 million OpenAI ..

Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we've done this before.

Google is investing $1 million in an AI-powered kid's media company. Child safety experts warn it won't solve the platform's slop problem.

The brand-new MacBook Neo is projected to be a hit in terms of sales and could turn out to be one of Apples most important laptops in recent memory. While its main claim to fame is the relatively affordable $599 base price ($499 for students), the Neo is also Apples most repairable laptop in a long time. YouTuber Phone Repair Guru performed a teardown of the Neo, and the results are fascinating. Apple opted for an easily repairable design with key components like the battery, speakers, ..

At its GTC conference, Nvidia is expected to share some of its vision for incorporating technology from AI chip startup Groq.

Iranian drone strikes shut down a major helium facility in Qatar, removing about 30% of global helium supply and raising concerns for the semiconductor industry, which relies on the gas for chip fabrication. "QatarEnergy declared force majeure on existing contracts on March 4, freeing it from supply obligations to customers," reports Tom's Hardware. The industry outlet Gasworld reports that no imminent restart is planned. From the report: Helium consultant Phil Kornbluth, speaking at a Gasworld ..

Samsungs official Qi2 magnetic battery pack for the Galaxy S26 is now on sale.

When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with international outlets and offered additional details on its recent deal with News Corp. The latest deals bring French newspaper Le Figaro , Spanish media company Prisa and German newspaper Sddeutsche Zeitung into the fold. Together, along with News Corp, which runs a number of outlets in the UK, these sources should give Meta AI better ..

The scheduling tool now works with more than two participants in your meeting.

Fuel shortages from the US-Israel war in Iran force governments across Asia to adopt remote work, energy conservation, and digital infrastructure strategies.

A 'web of litigation' The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.

Garmin owners can new get two Pokmon Sleep watch faces for free.

Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in 2024, when the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission filed a joint complaint alleging the company deliberately made it difficult to cancel subscriptions and obscured the frequently expensive "early termination fee" customers have to pay to get out of annual subscriptions that are paid monthly. "While we disagree with ..

AI services may not stay cheap for long, as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are currently subsidizing usage to rapidly grow market share. As these companies move toward profitability and potential IPOs, Axios reports that investors will likely push them to increase prices and improve margins. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Flashback: Silicon Valley has seen this movie before. The so-called "millennial lifestyle subsidy" meant VC money helped underwrite cheap Uber ..

The FBI wants to hear from Steam users who may have downloaded malware infected games.

GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.

With xAI now in the hands of SpaceX, Elon Musk says he's rebuilding the artificial intelligence company following high-level departures.

The new COLORFUL iGame Ultra series are the dark-themed equivalents of the original Ultra W series launched along with GeForce RTX 50 series last year.

Yesterday we saw the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra subjected to a teardown on video, and today the same JerryRigEverything channel is back with its now- traditional 'durability test'. This shows how scratchy the glass is, what happens to the screen if direct fire is applied to it, and, of course, whether a phone bends. [#InlinePriceWidget,14320,1#] So if you're interested in finding out how the Galaxy S26 Ultra fares in all those areas, and some bonus ones, grab something to eat and/or drink, take a ..

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In the mad dash many companies have made to incorporate AI features into their phones, Nothing arrived at one of the better ideas with Essential Space on the Nothing Phone 3a in 2025. The AI-powered app turns screenshots and voice recordings into actionable to-do lists and transcriptions, and now Nothing is rolling out an update to make the app easier to search and capable of recognizing new kinds of content. As part of the update, Essential Space now recognizes "Events," displaying them in ..

Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoneduntil attackers took notice.

Technology companies, including Block and Atlassian, have already cut jobs this year due to AI adoption.

Microsoft says "monitors can now report refresh rates higher than 1000 Hz" in the patch notes for its latest Windows 11 Insider builds. These updates are part of the Release Preview channel, which means they're very close to final, public release. On the other hand, Nvidia has also pushed the first update for its G-Sync Pulsar displays.