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These are the daily tech headlines for Monday, March 16, 2020 26. I'm Sarah Lane. Apple announced the AirPods Max 2, featuring an H2 chip for improved sound quality and stronger active noise cancellation. New features include adaptive audio, conversation awareness, voice isolation, live translation and personalized volume. The headphones have kept the same Design, support Bluetooth 5.3 and USB C lossless audio, and still offer around 20 hours of battery life. AirPods Max to launch in early April for $549, with orders opening March 25. LG says it plans deeper partnerships with Nvidia and Google as it expands into home robotics. The company is using Google's Gemini for contextual AI and the Nvidia Isaac platform to train robots in digital twin simulations, while also investing in figure AI in and collaborating with Chinese humanoid robotics firm Agibot. LG previously acquired Bare Robotics and works with affiliate Robo Star, with plans to start with commercial service robots and gradually evolve home appliances into robotic systems that manage household tasks. Russia fined Telegram 35 million rubles, or about US$432,000, for failing to remove content authorities say is illegal or extremist. Russian officials have repeatedly accused the messaging platform of hosting banned material, while Telegram says the government is trying to pressure users into switching to the state backed messaging app Max Meta signed a deal worth around $27 billion with Dutch AI cloud provider Nebias for AI infrastructure over five years. The agreement includes $12 billion in dedicated compute capacity and up to 15 billion in additional capacity, including deployments using Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI chips. The deal comes as Meta ramps up AI spending, with the company projecting as much as $135 billion in AI related capital expenditures this year. Microsoft has pulled the Samsung Galaxy Connect app from the Microsoft Store after it caused some Windows 11 systems on Samsung Galaxy Book 4 laptops and certain Samsung desktops to lose access to the C drive, seeing a C is not accessible, access denied, error preventing file access and blocking apps like Outlook, browsers and system tools. Microsoft and Samsung say the app has been temporarily removed while they work on a fix, the information sources say. ByteDance has paused the global launch of its AI video Generator C Dance 2.0 after its February China release went viral and drew some legal threats from Hollywood studios, including Disney, over copyright violations. The company is said to be delaying international rollout while engineers and lawyers implement stronger intellectual property safeguards. The Middle east conflict is raising risks for the global semiconductor supply chain, particularly Taiwan, which relies heavily on imported liquefied natural gas, helium and sulfur. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Or TSMC, which makes most of the world's advanced logic chips, could face higher costs and production disruptions if fuel or material supplies are affected. Taiwan has secured LNG and helium for the near term and plans to increase minimum gas reserves, but prolonged conflict will strain AI chip production and ripple through other industries. Over the weekend, Digg announced it's laying off a large portion of its staff and shutting down its app as it retools. Though the company isn't closing, CEO Justin Mezzo and Kevin Rose will return full time to focus on rebuilding Digg after the platform says it struggled with sophisticated bot activity that undermined its user vote system and found competing with sites like Reddit too difficult. A small team will continue developing Digg as a genuinely different platform, and finally today, Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court claiming the company used nearly 100,000 of their articles and entries to train ChatGPT without permission. The complaint alleges AI generated summaries divert web traffic and reproduce content near verbatim, and also claims trademark infringement through false AI citations. OpenAI says its models rely on publicly available data and fair use. Britannica seeks monetary damages and a court order to block the alleged infringement. Foreign Analysis of the Tech News of the day subscribe to DailyTreeNewsHow.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening and we'll talk to you next time.