ByteDance Delays AI Video Tool Amid Hollywood Pushback

ByteDance has reportedly paused Seedance 2.0’s global rollout after copyright disputes with Hollywood studios added new pressure to the AI video race.
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ByteDance’s $2.5B AI Chip Deal Tests US Export Controls

ByteDance is expanding AI capacity in Malaysia through a cloud partner, showing how overseas infrastructure can still provide access to advanced Nvidia chips.
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AI Expansions, Cyberthreats, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 9–13.
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Nuro Tests Zero-Shot Autonomous Vehicles in Tokyo

Nuro’s Tokyo rollout is an early test of whether autonomous driving software can adapt across markets with less location-specific tuning.
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Delivery Robots Hit Streets Backed by Niantic’s Pokémon GO-Era Mapping

Coco Robotics’ new Coco 2 delivery bot can leave the sidewalk for streets and bike lanes, using Niantic Spatial’s visual positioning tech to navigate dense city routes more precisely.
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Anthropic opens Sydney office to support growing AI demand in APAC

Anthropic is opening a Sydney office to support growing demand for Claude across APAC, with customers including Canva, Quantium and Commonwealth Bank.
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Russian Hackers Target Signal and WhatsApp Accounts, Dutch Intelligence Warns

Dutch intelligence says Russian state hackers are compromising Signal and WhatsApp accounts with phishing and linked-device tricks, underscoring how account security can fail even when encryption holds.
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US CBP Says Its Systems Aren’t Ready for Massive Tariff Refunds

A court fight over Trump-era tariffs is exposing how hard it is for legacy government trade systems to reverse billions of dollars at scale.
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X Tests Ad Format That Turns Product Mentions Into Shopping Prompts

X is testing a new ad format that adds shopping prompts beneath product mentions, opening a new revenue path while raising fresh questions about user trust.
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