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TikTok & Apple Music Launch “Play Full Song” – DTH
Mar 11Tap to summarizeGoogle completes its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, Nintendo’s Pokémon Pokopia is a hit, Amazon’s Zoox partners with Uber in Las Vegas. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon, Thank you! Send us email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes TikTok and Apple Music Launch Full Song Streaming TikTok and Apple Music are rolling out “Play Full Song,” letting Apple Music subscribers stream entire tracks within TikTok. The button will appear on the For You page and Sound Detail pages, and users can save songs to their Apple Music libraries or playlists. A new “Listening Party” feature lets fans listen and chat together in real time. Source: Variety Google Completes $32B Wiz Acquisition Google finalized its $32 billion purchase of cloud security startup Wiz, marking its largest acquisition. Wiz will join Google Cloud but remain a multi-cloud provider, supporting AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. The deal comes after U.S. and EU regulatory approval and Wiz surpassing $1 billion in ARR in 2025. Source: TechCrunch Meta Expands Scam Detection Across Apps Meta is adding new scam detection tools to Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Updates include alerts for unusual device-linking on WhatsApp, suspicious friend request warnings on Facebook, and AI-driven pattern detection in Messenger chats to help users identify and block scams. Source: The Verge Meta Unveils New In-House AI Chips Meta revealed four AI chips in its MTIA lineup to support its data center expansion. The MTIA 300 is already deployed for smaller model training, while MTIA 400, 450, and 500 will roll out through 2027 for generative AI tasks. Manufactured by TSMC, the chips diversify Meta’s silicon supply and reduce GPU reliance on Nvidia and AMD. Source: CNBC Nintendo Shares Jump on Pokémon Success Nintendo shares rose as much as 10.5%, its largest gain since April, after Pokémon Pokopia sold out at major U.S. retailers. Released March 5 exclusively for the Switch 2, the game helped offset concerns about rising memory costs affecting the company. Source: Bloomberg Google Expands Gemini AI in Chrome Google is bringing Gemini AI in Chrome to India, New Zealand, and Canada, adding support for 50+ languages including Hindi, French, and Spanish. Users can chat, summarize web pages, compare tabs, and manage Gmail, Tasks, and Calendar. Desktop users can share up to 10 tabs with Gemini, which can also transform images using the Nano Banana 2 model. Source: Thurrott Zoox Robotaxis Coming to Uber in Vegas Amazon-owned Zoox plans to make its driverless robotaxis hailable via the Uber app in Las Vegas later this year, pending federal approval. Zoox currently offers demo rides and is expanding to eight U.S. cities, with Los Angeles expected in 2027. The company is seeking exemptions from eight federal safety standards. Source: TechCrunch Anthropic Launches Think Tank Amid Pentagon Battle Anthropic is launching the Anthropic Institute, combining three research teams to study AI’s societal, economic, and safety impacts. Cofounder Jack Clark will lead the 30-person institute, which includes experts from DeepMind, OpenAI, and academia, with plans to double annually. Transparency and long-term research are a priority despite its ongoing Pentagon lawsuit. Source: The Verge
Transcribe →Rival AI Employees Back Anthropic’s Suit Against Pentagon’s ‘Risk’ Label – DTH
Mar 10Tap to summarizeAT&T Commits $250B to Network Expansion, Fiber, and 5G over Five Years, Oversight Board Demands Meta Overhaul AI Content Policy After Labeled Video Flap, Gemini Deeply Integrated into Google Workspace with New Docs, Sheets, and Drive Features. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon, Thank you! Send us email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes Google DeepMind and OpenAI Employees Back Anthropic in Pentagon Lawsuit Over 30 employees from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and other rival AI companies filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit challenges the Pentagon’s “supply-chain risk” label for Anthropic. The brief supports Anthropic’s request for a temporary restraining order to continue military partnerships, arguing the sanction harms U.S. AI competitiveness. The employees stated blacklisting Anthropic “undermines American innovation” and “chills professional debate,” stressing that Anthropic’s sought-after contractual protections against AI misuse are necessary in the absence of public law. Read more: Wired AT&T Plans $250 Billion U.S. Network Expansion AT&T plans a major investment of over $250 billion across the U.S. over five years to significantly expand its network infrastructure. This expansion is driven by the rising data demand from AI, cloud computing, and connected devices. The investment will focus on accelerating the deployment of fiber broadband, 5G home internet, and satellite connectivity to enhance coverage across all regions. The company will also hire thousands of new technicians as part of this initiative. Furthermore, AT&T aims to strengthen its network security, leverage AI-driven threat detection, and compete with cable providers, using its AST SpaceMobile partnership to reach remote areas. Read more: Reuters Meta Oversight Board Calls for New AI Content Policies The Oversight Board is pressuring Meta to overhaul its AI-generated content policies, urging a separate rule from misinformation, better detection tools, and improved digital watermarking. This follows the board overturning Meta’s failure to label a viral, unlabelled AI video about the 2025 Israel-Iran conflict. The board criticized Meta’s system as inadequate, relying too heavily on user disclosure and fact-checkers, and stressed the company must improve its internal capacity to counter deceptive AI content, especially from inauthentic networks during crises. Read more: Engadget Google Integrates Gemini More Deeply Into Workspace Google is deeply integrating the Gemini AI assistant into its Workspace applications for subscribers, adding a dedicated chat window in Google Docs, AI-driven spreadsheet generation, and a new search feature in Drive. The new Gemini chat in Docs can generate and format full document drafts by pulling information from across the web and Workspace, including the ability to match an existing document’s style. Additionally, collaborative editing is enhanced with a “Match writing style” feature and the ability for Gemini to suggest private, in-line changes throughout a document based on user prompts. Read more: The Verge Meta Acquires AI-Agent Social Network Moltbook Meta Platforms has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform for AI agents, primarily to hire its co-founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, for its Meta Superintelligence Labs, reflecting the fierce competition for AI talent. Moltbook, a niche site for AI bots to exchange code and gossip, quickly grew but faced a major cybersecurity flaw, later fixed, that exposed over a million credentials through its “vibe coding” method. The acquisition signals that autonomous agents are the next major focus in the tech industry. Read more: Reuters FAA Launches Pilot Programs for Electric Air Taxis The FAA launched eight pilot programs across 26 states to fast-track Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and eVTOL integration, as mandated by a presidential executive order. This three-year initiative lets companies like Archer Aviation, Beta Technologies, and Joby Aviation test applications such as air taxis and cargo delivery as early as this summer, partially bypassing standard regulations. The programs, in partnership with local governments, aim to develop safety standards and a scalable framework to ensure U.S. leadership in the new technology. Read more: TechCrunch Adobe Expands Creative Cloud With Agentic AI Features Adobe is significantly enhancing its Creative Cloud suite with “agentic AI” features, allowing users to edit images and documents through descriptive prompts. This includes the public beta launch of an AI Assistant in Photoshop on web and mobile for tasks like removing distractions and changing backgrounds, following similar releases for Express and Acrobat. Additionally, Adobe is integrating Express and Acrobat directly into Microsoft’s Copilot service for enterprise customers, enabling conversational adjustments within the Microsoft platform. Read more: The Verge Adobe Adds Conversational Editing to Creative Cloud Adobe’s Creative Cloud now features agentic AI for conversational editing. A public beta of the AI Assistant in Photoshop on web and mobile allows edits like removing distractions and changing backgrounds, mirroring existing features in Express and Acrobat. Though the desktop app lacks the chatbot, Adobe is integrating Express and Acrobat into Microsoft Copilot 365, giving enterprise users conversational editing options within the Microsoft platform. Read more: TechCrunch Zoom Launches AI Office Suite and Photorealistic Avatars Zoom is significantly expanding its AI features, launching photorealistic avatars for meetings and video messaging, and introducing new proprietary AI productivity applications (Docs, Slides, Sheets) in preview this spring. The company is also enhancing its platform with deepfake detection, a voice translator, and an AI agent builder for custom agent creation. Furthermore, Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 is being integrated into its desktop app and Workvivo, connecting with services like Slack and Gmail, and the company is unifying its design across platforms for easier access to these new AI tools. Read more: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/zoom-launches-an-ai-powered-office-...
Transcribe →Microsoft Collaborates with Anthropic to Launch Copilot Cowork – DTH
Mar 9Tap to summarizeMicrosoft announces a collaboration with Anthropic to bring tech behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot, Vizio is merging login systems with Walmart’s, and OpenAI again pushes back the release of an ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon, Thank you! Send us email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes Microsoft announced a collaboration with Anthropic to bring the tech behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Aimed at Enterprise customers, Cowork runs in a sandboxed cloud environment, within Microsoft 365’s governance boundaries and actions and outputs are auditable. In a blog post, Microsoft president of business apps and agents, Charles Lamanna shared that Cowork will check in if any clarifications are required and changes can be approved before applied. Copilot Cowork is currently in limited testing with customers in the Research Preview program, and is expected to become more widely available in the Frontier program in late March 2026. Source: Fortune and Microsoft On Monday, Anthropic filed a lawsuit in federal court in California to block the Pentagon from adding the company to the national security blacklist. The suit claims the designation is unlawful and violates both due process and free speech rights. Last week US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a security supply-chain risk over the company’s decision to keep guardrails against using AI for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. Source: Reuters According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning at least three new products for the high-end “ultra” lineup. Even if the new releases don’t explicitly feature the ultra naming convention, the products will still have a premium cost. For example, the foldable iPhone, expected to cost around $2,000, may end up being called something simple like “Fold” instead of including “Ultra” in the name. Gurman also states “AirPod Ultra” is a name in consideration for next-gen Airpods featuring cameras to provide visual data to Siri. Source: Bloomberg Apple is also exploring a new aluminum manufacturing process to save as much metal as possible, lowering costs while also speeding up production. Apple is working on 3D-printing aluminum for future Apple Watch casings and, according to Mark Gurman, potentially iPhone enclosures in the future. Previously Apple used 3D-printed titanium in the Apple Watch Ultra 3. Source: Digital Trends OpenAI is reportedly pushing back the launch of ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ again. An OpenAI spokesperson told Alex Heath, “we’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now” and an adult mode would “take more time”. The spokesperson said features like personality improvements and designing more proactive experiences are among the current priorities. In October 2025 CEO Sam Altman posted on X the mode would be available in December, but then said in a December briefing that it would instead launch in Q1 2026. No new projected launch dates have been announced. Source: Engadget Electronics manufacturer Vizio, now a Walmart private label brand since being acquired in 2024, is merging the previous Vizio account system with Walmart’s. During the setup process for any new Vizio Smart TVs, users will be offered the option to connect any existing Vizio accounts to a Walmart login or to delete the old account. Current customers are not required to take action with their accounts at this time, with the change being pushed to older hardware units sometime in the future. Source: Digital Trends Ride-Hailing service Uber is expanding the availability of the Female Driver safety feature in the United States. In a statement, Uber is adding the “Women Drivers” booking option, matching female riders with female drivers, in New York, Philadelphia, and DC, joining the list of two dozen cities that already had the feature active. Women-matching options are also available in six other countries, including France and Germany. The Women Drivers option will be visible alongside existing UberX, Comfort, UberXL and Black selections. Bloomberg reports Uber is currently facing thousands of pending legal cases in the US over driver misconduct. Source: Bloomberg Google is adding a new “Tap to Draft” option for Smart Replies, enabling the ability to edit the reply in the text field rather than immediately sending it out. This will solve the problem of accidentally clicking a smart reply and being unable to do anything about it. “Tap to Send” will remain the default option during the initial rollout, and is currently available in the latest beta version, but not yet in the stable channel. Source: 9to5Google
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