Techmeme River
Freitag, 20. März 2026
05:05
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Pro, its new 1T-parameter foundation model, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which the company says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6
VentureBeat
02:00
Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program
The Block
00:45
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments
Bloomberg
00:00
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks
Bloomberg
Donnerstag, 19. März 2026
23:30
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground
Decrypt
23:10
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system “Project Sunrise”
Wall Street Journal
22:50
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech
New York Times
22:20
How AI startups and founders use “taste” as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality
New Yorker
21:45
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025
Wired
21:05
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses
VentureBeat
20:20
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy
Music Business Worldwide
19:45
Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship
Axios
19:20
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85% after hours
CNBC
18:50
OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers
Wall Street Journal
18:35
Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight
Axios
18:20
Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed
Reuters
17:15
Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies'
Axios
17:10
Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake
Axios
16:40
Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B
Wall Street Journal
16:35
Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round
The Information
16:20
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions
Wired
15:40
Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude
Bloomberg
15:15
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users
TechCrunch
15:05
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI
Wall Street Journal
14:35
Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects
Wired
13:50
Oasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities like AI bots and automated tools, raised a $120M Series B, taking its total funding to $195M
Bloomberg
13:45
Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers
The Verge
13:25
Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025
Forbes
13:15
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI
New York Times
13:00
Cursor says Composer 2 is “frontier-level at coding” and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more
Cursor
12:35
Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program
Bloomberg
12:20
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks
Bloomberg
12:00
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers
The Verge
11:55
Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
Bloomberg
11:40
Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding
TechCrunch
11:10
DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models
Bloomberg
10:55
Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones
Reuters
10:20
Claros, which aims to cut data center energy losses by using voltage regulators that provide power directly to servers' main processors, raised a $30M seed
Axios
09:45
MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk”
Wall Street Journal
09:30
Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default
The Verge
09:15
OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January
Bloomberg
09:10
The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws
Wall Street Journal
08:50
Google co-founder Sergey Brin raises his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC, which opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax
The Guardian
08:30
Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z
Fortune
08:10
Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis
The Verge
08:00
The US NHTSA escalates its investigation into Tesla's FSD to an “engineering analysis”, which could result in a recall campaign or other enforcement action
Wall Street Journal
07:50
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI
The Block
07:40
DHL Supply Chain says it will open 10 warehouses in 2026 across North America to serve data center operators and component suppliers, totaling 7M+ square feet
Wall Street Journal
07:30
Ofcom fines 4chan £520K for OSA violations, including £450K for not complying with age check requirements, and gives it until April 2 to implement age assurance
Politico
06:50
The UN-backed World Happiness Report says passively consuming algorithmic social media hurts teens' mental health and heavy use disproportionately affects girls
Bloomberg
06:40
TechInsights: chip manufacturing emissions will climb ~33% to 247M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, roughly the same as Algeria's 2024 volume
Bloomberg
06:20
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY ~$41.3B, vs. ~$42B est., and net income down 67% YoY to ~$2.4B, as it seeks to monetize AI to help offset e-commerce losses
Bloomberg
06:10
An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of “hostile architecture”
Shubham Bose
05:55
CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool that manages staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week
Bloomberg
05:45
Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends for 2026
Reuters
05:15
Sources: European chip importers are tapping into backup stores and paying more for deliveries as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern air freight routes
CNBC
04:55
Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures
Tech.eu
02:50
Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia
TechCrunch
02:35
Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and subsidize “one-person companies”, or startups run by a single founder with AI's help
Rest of World
02:30
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Meta will keep Horizon Worlds in VR “for existing games”, a day after Meta said Quest owners will lose access from June 15
Lowpass
01:35
Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M-$350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue hits $400M, up from $200M in October 2025
The Information
01:30
Chip industry executives say chip testing companies are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares more than tripled in the past year
Nikkei Asia
01:15
PwC US Senior Partner Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and PwC plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools
Financial Times
00:55
Baidu joins Alibaba in raising its prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18
South China Morning Post
00:45
US Senator Marsha Blackburn releases a draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act
Bloomberg Law
00:30
Figma's stock closed down 7.98% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch tool for “vibe designing”; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025
@j0hnwang
00:25
Google updates Stitch to let users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” software design canvas and a reasoning design agent
The Keyword
Mittwoch, 18. März 2026
23:55
AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok
Wall Street Journal
23:45
Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales grew 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, as China's overall market fell 4% YoY amid higher memory chip prices
Reuters
22:35
Walmart plans to add its Sparky chatbot into ChatGPT and Gemini, after OpenAI's Instant Checkout conversion rates were 3x lower than those with clicking out
Wired
21:50
Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' hopes, dreams, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study ever”
Anthropic
21:10
LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to target audiences of professionals
Business Insider
20:35
Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as its chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs
Reuters
20:25
Cloudflare says it has appealed Italy's €14.2M fine for refusing to block access to pirate websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering”
Ars Technica
19:35
Perplexity releases its Comet browser with a built-in AI assistant and a native ad blocker for iOS and iPadOS, after launching it on Android in November 2025
Thurrott
19:05
NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital
SiliconANGLE
18:20
Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to exposing sensitive data to employees who didn't have authorization
The Information
17:35
Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after PACs spent $18M+ in a month
Bloomberg
17:00
Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, above $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, above $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.
Bloomberg
15:30
Compute startup Andromeda raised funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M, and passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025
Upstarts Media
14:30
Senate hearing: FBI Director Kash Patel confirms that the FBI purchases “commercially available information” that can be used to track people's location history
Politico
14:25
Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months
Bloomberg
14:20
Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; Meta's first flagship store in LA opened in 2025
WWD
13:45
Sources: Coinbase and Zerohash are among the companies vying to issue Cloudflare's stablecoin, set to launch this year to support payments for the “agentic web”
The Information
13:40
Director Coerte Voorhees says he is using AI to feature Val Kilmer in “a significant part” in an indie film, with the cooperation of the late actor's estate
Variety
13:35
Meta debuts Creator Fast Track for Facebook, offering big Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creators $1,000 to $3,000 per month and more reach to post on Facebook
CNBC
13:25
Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its first profit since its 2007 founding, while revenue fell 1.4% YoY to €534M
Financial Times
12:55
Ramp data: Anthropic is now capturing 73%+ of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January 2025
Axios
12:45
Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”
New York Times
12:15
Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed
CTech
12:05
Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP
Axios
11:50
The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa
BBC
11:40
Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable
Axios
11:35
Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve
CoinDesk
11:20
Advanced Navigation, which makes AI-assisted hardware to let ships and aircraft navigate even when GPS is jammed, raised a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation
Wall Street Journal
10:35
RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures
Fortune
10:10
Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites
Wired
10:00
Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions
Fortune
09:50
Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security
ProPublica
09:40
Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K
Forbes
09:30
Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the generative AI tech homogenizes games are “completely wrong”
Tom's Hardware
09:20
Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser
The Information
09:01
Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US
Bloomberg
08:30
The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide proposal that lets companies incorporate in 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals
Bloomberg
07:40
Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B+ valuation, and reports 100+ clients
Bloomberg
07:15
The US goods trade deficit hit a record $1.2T in 2025, driven by a 60%+ rise in imports of computers and chips to $450B+ since President Trump's inauguration
New York Times
07:00
Chengdu's government says Tim Cook attended Apple's 50th anniversary event in the city; Chinese state media called for Apple to fix its “monopolistic” App Store
Bloomberg
06:45
Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London's and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI social norms, sovereign AI, and more
Financial Times
06:35
Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent $800K+ on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia page, after his 2009 release from jail
New York Times
06:25
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models, like GPT-2, leading to poor writing from many top AI models
The Atlantic
06:10
A Stanford study of 391K+ messages across nearly 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of replies, often validating delusional thinking
Financial Times
06:05
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol
Wired
05:55
Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$28.3B, vs. ~$28.2B est., its fifth quarter of double-digit growth, driven by gaming and ads, as it bets on agentic AI
Bloomberg
05:45
Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios
Bloomberg
04:20
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
Reuters
04:05
Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars
Bloomberg
02:40
Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom
The San Francisco Standard
02:35
Banks start offloading $18B of debt tied to EA's $55B buyout; sources say EA told potential investors that AI may eventually let gaming companies cut engineers
Financial Times
02:30
The UK FCA says Meta repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in the UK, despite committing to block them
Reuters
01:45
Sources: Microsoft is weighing legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching OpenAI's Microsoft agreement
Financial Times
00:55
The Linux Foundation says Anthropic, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI gave $12.5M in grants to help FOSS maintainers handle AI-generated security findings
The Register
00:40
Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multiyear memory chip contracts, a much longer timeframe that may help stabilize supply and ease shortage concerns
Bloomberg
00:30
Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires
Wall Street Journal
00:01
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app Apple removed from the App Store that played music from YouTube
Ars Technica
Dienstag, 17. März 2026
23:25
Some companies are tracking employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to see whose AI strategies should be amplified and what wastefulness should be squashed
Wall Street Journal
22:46
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been used in 100K+ missions in Ukraine since April 2024
Bloomberg
22:01
Source: Beijing has approved many Chinese companies to buy H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese embassy spokesperson said they are “not aware of the specifics”
Reuters
21:31
Filing: the US DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines”
Wired
21:10
Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell 60% for publishers with 1,000 to 10K daily page views, 47% for those with 10K-100K, and 22% for those with 100K+
Axios
20:15
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data
MIT Technology Review
20:01
A US appeals court puts on hold a judge's earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic AI shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
Reuters
19:31
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of its Groq chips to the Chinese market; a source says it's expected to be available in May and is not downgraded
Reuters
19:15
Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest
Bloomberg
19:10
Turquoise Health, which offers a healthcare pricing and payments platform, raised a $40M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $95.3M
Axios
18:40
Brian Lynch, Apple's top engineering director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays
Bloomberg
18:37
An Argentine court rules that Polymarket lacks approval to operate and directs ISPs and app stores to block it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30+ countries
CoinDesk
18:18
The SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities
Bloomberg
17:40
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as its CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left for Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprises more
The Information
17:25
Mistral announces Mistral Forge, which aims to help enterprises build custom models trained on their own data using Mistral's wide library of open-weight models
TechCrunch
16:30
Meta says Quest headset users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds from June 15; virtual world access will still be available via the Meta Horizon mobile app
Bloomberg
16:21
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in the process of restarting manufacturing of its H200 chips for shipments to China and it has received orders from “many customers”
Axios
16:10
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments since it started trading: $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March
CoinDesk
15:35
Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore
New York Times
15:10
At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI could help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS booked $128.7B in 2025 revenue
Reuters
14:20
Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M
Crunchbase News
14:01
NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained to curb VPNs, possibly to forestall protests during Festival of Fire
Bloomberg
13:30
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully letting users bet on elections; Kalshi faces a similar lawsuit in Nevada
Engadget
13:15
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows; GPT-5.4 mini approaches GPT-5.4-level pass rates at a much lower cost
ZDNET
12:15
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users
TechCrunch
12:10
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games
The Verge
11:55
Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies monitor security across cloud providers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed and a $31M Series A
Axios
11:31
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus more on building AI models
CNBC
11:25
World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents
TechCrunch
10:40
Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services
CoinDesk
09:55
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat
The Information
09:50
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, joining Tencent and Alibaba in racing to capitalize on agentic AI
Bloomberg
09:40
IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent; IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he expects IBM will maintain or grow its head count over five years
Wall Street Journal
09:33
Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024
Bloomberg
09:05
Q&A with Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara on suing the US government, solving market making, agentic and insider trading, ethics, and more
Cheeky Pint
08:45
PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and the UK to 70 countries in total, including Colombia, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Uganda, and Malawi
Fortune
08:35
Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026
Reuters
08:20
Enterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation
Bloomberg
08:10
Darton Commodities: the global cobalt shortage is set to persist through 2030, after Congo limited exports in 2025; the DRC accounts for 70%+ of global supply
Bloomberg
08:01
Agentic cybersecurity startup Surf AI, which helps teams read signals from identity, cloud, and other tools, emerges from stealth with $57M in seed and Series A
Axios
07:50
Amsterdam-based Nebius plans to raise ~$3.75B in convertible debt to fund its data center expansion and to purchase customized AI chips, after its Meta deal
Bloomberg
07:20
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more
Stratechery
07:10
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible
CNBC
07:01
Sources: Google is in talks with Envicool and other Chinese companies about buying liquid cooling equipment for data centers, amid a tight supply of such parts
Reuters
06:50
Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems
CNBC
06:40
Sources: KKR, Blackstone, and other investors have turned down some data center debt because of insufficient insurance against risks like natural disasters
Financial Times
06:25
SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says memory chip makers are expanding capacity but are unlikely to match demand until around 2030; basic wafer supply lags by 20%+
Bloomberg
06:15
Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more
Politico
06:01
The UK plans to spend £1B+ on quantum computing research over four years, including funding companies in pharmaceuticals, financial services, and energy
Bloomberg
05:50
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies
Politico
05:40
Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024
Bloomberg
04:50
Samsung says it is winding down its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea and the US once it clears its inventory, after just three months on the market
Bloomberg
03:55
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more
The Verge
02:25
Open model providers will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents
Interconnects AI
01:01
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material
PC Gamer
00:40
Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that can coordinate AI agents to handle business tasks like document editing and research, in a closed beta
Reuters
Montag, 16. März 2026
23:30
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify the reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models
Mistral AI
22:35
A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who would win a Polymarket bet if he changed his report on an Iranian missile's impact in Israel
The Times of Israel
20:25
Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A
TechCrunch
20:05
How Disney Imagineering built Olaf, a robot set to arrive at Disneyland Paris later in March, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation
TechRadar
19:55
In an all-hands, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo described a strategy shift to refocus on coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests”
Wall Street Journal
19:15
RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M
SiliconANGLE
18:35
Nvidia forms the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, and Thinking Machines Lab, to build an open model on DGX Cloud
DatacenterDynamics
18:25
Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to expand to ~8GW of compute by 2031
Wall Street Journal
18:05
Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025
Axios
17:50
Manus introduces My Computer, a Windows and macOS app that enables its general AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and apps
Manus
17:30
Roche says it has deployed 3,500+ Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which it calls “the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company”
DatacenterDynamics
17:10
Nvidia says BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform, and that Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis across 28 cities by 2028
The Verge
17:00
Nvidia unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin for orbital data centers, saying the GPU delivers up to 25x more AI compute for space-based inferencing compared to the H100
DatacenterDynamics
16:55
US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal
Wall Street Journal
16:40
Nvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls
The New Stack
16:30
Nvidia unveils a liquid-cooled server rack with 256 Vera CPUs, each of which features 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory for up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth
The Register
16:10
Z.ai launches GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source, faster, and cheaper variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent-driven workflows and OpenClaw-style tasks
VentureBeat
16:00
Nvidia announces the Nvidia Groq 3 LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 Groq 3 LPUs, 128GB of SRAM, and 40 PBps SRAM bandwidth, available in H2 2026
CRN
15:30
Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects its flagship AI chips to help generate $1T+ in sales through 2027, after previously forecasting $500B in sales through 2026
Bloomberg
15:00
Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to video game frames, coming this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs
Digital Foundry
13:57
A recording of Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California
NVIDIA on YouTube
13:35
Digital asset wealth management platform Abra plans to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger with New Providence at a $750M pre-money valuation
Decrypt
13:05
A group of Tennessee teenagers sues xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed
Washington Post
12:55
How Trump's opposition to state-level AI regulation has driven a wedge in the GOP, killing Florida's proposed AI Bill of Rights, which Governor DeSantis backed
New York Times
12:25
Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro
MacRumors
12:10
Halcyon, which uses AI to aggregate documents from public utility commissions, energy regulators, and more, raised a $21M Series A led by Energize Capital
Axios
11:25
Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary sue OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models
Reuters
10:25
Job ads show Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting humans to make deepfake video calls to facilitate crypto and romance scams
Wired
10:05
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies
Reuters
09:35
Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three
The Information
09:25
Taiwan's chip sector faces critical supply risks as the island relies on the Middle East for 37% of its LNG and much of its helium and sulfur, amid the Iran war
Bloomberg
09:10
Apple unveils the $549 AirPods Max 2, with an H2 chip, up to 1.5x more effective ANC, studio-quality audio recording, and camera remote, shipping in early April
Apple
08:15
Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct liquid coolant in 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143M led by MVP at a $1.64B valuation
Bloomberg
07:15
GovAI and Brookings: many of the people most at risk if AI transforms work are also the best placed to find new jobs, as researchers disagree over AI's impact
Washington Post
07:00
Memo: Alibaba unveils Alibaba Token Hub, a new AI unit that consolidates research, consumer-facing apps, AI products, and more, as it focuses on monetizing AI
Bloomberg
06:45
Sources: OpenAI faced intense backlash from its advisory council over a planned ChatGPT “adult mode”, delayed earlier in March due to technical and other issues
Wall Street Journal
06:30
How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it
New York Times
06:17
Nebius says Meta plans to spend up to $27B over the next five years to access AI infrastructure, starting with $12B of capacity in early 2027; NBIS jumps 12%+
Bloomberg
06:00
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$81B, net profit down 2% YoY to ~$1.4B, below ~$1.9B est., due to a higher tax expense, and a 5.9% gross profit margin
Wall Street Journal
05:45
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than the S25 Ultra, but still big, expensive, and lacks Qi2
The Verge
04:50
Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence about how scammers abuse their services
Axios
04:35
How competition between Brazilian delivery app iFood and Meituan's Keeta in Brazil has descended into accusations of corporate espionage and shady tactics
Financial Times
03:55
As AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90%+ of their cash flow, may be a genius move
Asymco
02:20
Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's help, which would make it China's second chipmaker with such tech, after SMIC
Reuters
02:00
Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay
Bloomberg
01:25
Sources: Microsoft shelved plans to add some Copilot AI features to Windows 11 and shipped some tools without the Copilot branding, to reduce AI bloat in the OS
Windows Central
01:10
Reliz, which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M to $100M in estimated assets and $100M to $500M in liabilities
The Block
00:40
Google and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picks five Indian startups from 4,000+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers”
TechCrunch
00:05
President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a “disinformation weapon” to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying “AI can be very dangerous”
Reuters
Sonntag, 15. März 2026
23:40
Micron completes its $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale, with construction starting by the end of FY26
Reuters
23:10
JD.com launches its online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as it expands globally to challenge Amazon
Reuters
22:00
Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more
New York Times
20:40
Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating
Ventureburn
19:10
Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token
The Block
16:10
Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia
SecurityWeek
14:00
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down 85% from $3.5B in 2021
TechCrunch
08:10
Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the US' Iran war push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication
New York Times