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Today’s tech highlights include OpenAI and MIT’s study on ChatGPT’s impact on emotional well-being, revealing gender-based response differences. Intel reorganizes its foundry leadership as EVP Anne Keller plans to retire. DoorDash and GrubHub partner with Clara for payment plans, while Katie Han’s Han Ventures nears $1 billion in new crypto funds. Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, aiming to open-source its algorithm. Meta tests AI-generated comment prompts on Instagram, and the UK considers revising its digital services tax. Coinbase is in talks to acquire Darabit, the FCC investigates Chinese tech firms, and Cloudflare debuts AI Labyrinth to counter malicious bots. India’s smartphone exports rose 6%, driven by Samsung and Apple.
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Hello and welcome to Top Tech News Today. Here is your daily dose of latest tech news from around the world. Open AAI in partnership with MIT releases its first study on how chat GPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond. Intel reorganizes Intel foundry leadership as EVP Anne Keller, former GM of technology development and now strategic adviser, plans to retire later this year. Door Dash partners with Clara to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more. GrubHub also uses CLA as a payment option. Katie Han is raising $1 billion across two new crypto-focused funds as her Han Ventures is close to deploying most of the $1.5 billion raised in 2022. Perplexity proposes to buy Tik Tok says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is singularly positioned to rebuild it without creating a monopoly. Meta is testing a write with Meta AI prompt on Instagram that gives users AI generated suggestions to help write comments under other users posts. The UK weighs reducing or abolishing its 2% digital services tax on UK revenue of big tech companies by April 2nd in an effort to avoid some US tariffs. Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Darabit, the largest Bitcoin and Ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at 4 billion to5 billion in January. The FCC is investigating Huawei, Hickvision, ZTE, China Telecom, and other Chinese companies over concerns they are ignoring restrictions on US operations. The US Treasury sanctions watchdog removes tornado cash from its global blacklist after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024. Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PC World publisher Foundry earlier this week. Cloudflare announces AI labyrinth which uses AI generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI crawlers and bots that ignore no crawl directives. North Korea is launching research center 227, a cyber security research unit focused on AI based hacking for stealing information and digital assets. 10 cent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSseek and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its AD and gaming businesses. Blinket, Zeppto, and Swiggy Instamart generate approximately 350 million to approximately $400 million in annualized ad revenue or approximately 50% of Amazon India’s fiscal year 2024 ad revenue. Stockholm-based, which plans to build hypers scale data centers in Europe and an array of cloud services, raised a $55 million series A from Bliss and others. Shipments of India manufactured smartphones grew 6% year-over-year in 2024 with Samsung and Apple accounting for approximately 94% of exports. Samsung’s India exports grew 13% year-over-year. That was all for today. Thanks for watching and we shall be back tomorrow. Please subscribe our channel and press bell icon to get updates about our latest videos and daily tech news. Thanks again for watching.