Samstag, 14. März 2026

12:15
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month
The Information
11:05
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles
Bloomberg
08:30
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification
SemiAnalysis
05:30
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more
Dwarkesh Podcast
02:30
An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran
Bloomberg
02:20
Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February
Financial Times
01:55
Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses
Wired
01:10
Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds
The Block
01:01
A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation
American Medical Association

Freitag, 13. März 2026

22:00
The US Army awards Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B to buy its software, hardware, and services; the deal includes a 5-year optional ordering period
Bloomberg
21:20
A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February
Reuters
20:40
Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31
Reuters
20:20
A US judge questions Elon Musk's $134B claim for damages in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft but rules Musk can still make his case to a jury
Financial Times
19:05
$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters announced a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the White House hasn't confirmed his attendance
Bloomberg
18:35
Amazon wins its appeal against a €746M GDPR fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy watchdog after a court finds the watchdog had not properly done its analysis
Reuters
18:12
Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal
Wall Street Journal
17:35
Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam
The Verge
17:15
Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be “original content”
TechCrunch
17:00
Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation
The Information
16:40
Didi reports Q4 revenue up 10.5% YoY to $8.46B, international revenue up 47% YoY to $638M, and a net loss of $43.48M amid an overseas expansion push
Reuters
16:10
MacBook Neo teardown: most repairable MacBook in ~14 years, with no parts pairing issues, a screwed-down battery, and relatively easy keyboard replacement
iFixit News
15:45
Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, and transport industries
Bloomberg
15:30
Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer a 1M context window at standard pricing; it is the default for Claude Code Max, Team, and Enterprise users on Opus 4.6
Anthropic
14:05
Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs
Android Police
13:50
Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai
The Information
13:05
Elon Musk says xAI “was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up”
Electrek
12:55
AWS plans to deploy Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine chip for AI inference functions; AWS will still offer slower, cheaper computing using its Trainium processors
Wall Street Journal
12:35
Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10
The Verge
12:01
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla
Financial Times
11:10
Adobe will pay a $75M fine and provide $75M in free services to users to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing termination fees, and more
Reuters
10:15
Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen
TechCrunch
09:30
Banking, manufacturing, and other EU businesses warn “tech sovereignty” could hit profits and competitiveness as Brussels aims to cut reliance on US tech giants
Financial Times
08:35
Uber is relaunching a robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas; the service will have a safety driver behind the wheel until the end of 2026
Bloomberg
07:01
STMicro says it will retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures
Reuters
05:35
Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub
Bloomberg
05:05
China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use
Reuters
02:05
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” and strengthens that of “working-class, often male voters”
HuffPost
00:30
Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including of a VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, that helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups
Fortune

Donnerstag, 12. März 2026

23:55
Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a “remote wipe” command against all connected devices
Krebs on Security
23:40
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+
Wall Street Journal
23:30
The European Commission says “X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark” in the EU and the commission will now “assess the proposed remedies”
Bloomberg
22:45
A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs
Pew Research Center
22:35
Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more
New York Times
22:00
Apple is lowering its commission for its App Store in mainland China from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, “following discussions with the Chinese regulator”
Bloomberg
21:55
Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen nearly 1PB of data from the Canadian BPO giant in a multimonth breach
BleepingComputer
21:20
Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others
Axios
20:45
Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make their closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations on the liability for harms to children
Associated Press
20:25
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site
The Information
20:05
A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked
Reuters
19:50
Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products
New York Times
19:45
Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.4B, vs. $6.28B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and forecasts Q2 revenue between $6.43B and $6.48B, vs. $6.43B est.
Reuters
19:25
Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO
GeekWire
17:25
Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3
Bloomberg
17:15
Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region
Bloomberg
16:20
Adobe says CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after it names his successor; Narayen became CEO in 2007 and will stay on as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+
CNBC
16:00
xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to “catch up and exceed our competitors” in coding by mid-2026
The Information
15:15
Tinder unveils updates meant to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in Los Angeles
TechCrunch
14:55
PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade
Bloomberg
14:15
DOD CTO Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollute” the DOD's supply chain because they have “a different policy preference” that is baked in
CNBC
13:40
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023
Axios
13:01
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide
The Register
12:50
Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year
Bloomberg
12:35
Michael Dell says “I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools”, answering a question about the Anthropic-DOD feud
Bloomberg
12:25
Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark
TechCrunch
12:15
Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin
Sifted
12:10
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, turned on by default for all users in beta
The Verge
12:05
Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M
Bloomberg
11:45
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which Alexa says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content
TechCrunch
11:40
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new age-rating categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, like loot boxes
Eurogamer.net
11:30
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP
The Verge
11:10
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models
Reuters
11:05
BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures
Axios
10:45
Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO
Reuters
10:40
Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP
Tech.eu
10:30
Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding
Business Insider
10:20
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+
TechCrunch
10:15
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital
Fortune
09:35
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source
Bloomberg
09:20
Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle
Fortune
09:10
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US
Wall Street Journal
08:40
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India
The Verge
08:30
Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+
Bloomberg
07:45
Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024
CTech
07:25
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B
Forbes
07:10
Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation
Bloomberg
06:50
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles
TechCrunch
06:35
Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment
Bloomberg
06:15
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M
The Guardian
05:55
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation
New York Times
05:40
Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more
Bloomberg
05:00
Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng
TechCrunch
04:35
Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+
Bloomberg
04:15
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services were 19% each
Financial Times
03:55
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure
CoinDesk
03:10
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all
The Guardian
02:55
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility
Hardcore Software
02:45
IDC: Motorola holds ~50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google, but ~13% in Europe, for a global ~14% share
9to5Google
02:35
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze
MIT Technology Review
02:05
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week
9to5Mac
01:45
Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others
Bloomberg
01:40
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework
CoinDesk
00:25
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside $500M more for restructuring, taking its FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI coding tools
Financial Times
00:05
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026
Wall Street Journal

Mittwoch, 11. März 2026

23:20
Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies
The Information
23:15
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake
CNBC
23:05
Binance.US names Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO
CoinDesk
22:50
Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that earned $100K+ in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users in February
Game Developer
22:15
Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants
Axios
21:50
The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites
BBC
21:35
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026
Forbes
21:05
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges
CNBC
20:55
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B
Newcomer
20:25
Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs
Financial Times
20:05
Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based startup's first international autonomous vehicle deployment
Reuters
19:25
Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved “misappropriation”
Wired
18:35
Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of megawatts of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle abandoned its expansion deal there
The Information
18:10
SoftBank's PayPay priced its US IPO at $16 per share, below its targeted price range of between $17 and $20, raising $880M, valuing the payments app at $10.7B
Reuters
17:50
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models
Wired
16:55
Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors
Windows Latest
16:45
Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027
The Verge
16:40
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent initially only for macOS, and an enterprise version of its cloud-based Perplexity Computer
Axios
16:35
Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets
Bloomberg
16:25
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen
Bloomberg
15:35
FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticizes the slow pace of Amazon's satellite launches, after Amazon raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to launch up to 1M satellites
Reuters
15:25
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions “inspired by” real writers without permission, after backlash
The Verge
15:10
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran
Wall Street Journal
15:00
Sources: Ripple kicks off a share buyback at a $50B valuation to repurchase up to $750M in shares from investors and employees in a tender offer through April
Bloomberg
14:50
Anthropic says Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now share full context across open files, and skills are available inside Excel and PowerPoint add-ins
The Deep View
14:30
Amazon raised €14.5B in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency, following a dollar offering on Tuesday that raised $37B
Bloomberg
14:15
WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet
TechCrunch
13:52
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project
Business Insider
12:35
Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers
Fast Company
12:10
Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four-year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers
Financial Times
12:02
WhatsApp adds parent-managed accounts for users under the age of 13 and says the accounts will not get access to features like Meta AI, Channels, or Status
TechCrunch
11:46
Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025
WWD
11:35
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered factory robots, raised $500M led by Accel and a16z, source says at a $2B valuation
Wall Street Journal
11:31
Axiamatic, which offers an “agentic control plane” to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer
Fortune
11:16
Kai, which is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform, raised $125M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners
Wall Street Journal
10:30
Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking
Bloomberg
10:01
Investors flee to Magnificent Seven stocks due to the US-led war in Iran; tech is up 1.5% from February 27, the only S&P 500 sector to rise since the strikes
Financial Times
09:35
Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country
The Hollywood Reporter
09:25
Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition yet; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024
TechCrunch
09:15
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet
The Verge
09:10
TikTok partners with Apple to let Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the TikTok app, and use a Listening Party feature, in the coming weeks
Variety
08:55
Binance files a New York defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iran-linked transactions
CoinDesk
08:46
Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major upgrades, and no Qi2 charging magnets
The Verge
08:35
How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few components from China as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon
New York Times
08:25
CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to “teen” personas 50%+ of the time; only Claude consistently refused
CNN
08:15
Amsterdam-based Nebius says Nvidia plans to invest $2B in the startup as it plans to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW+ of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030
Bloomberg
08:10
Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in summer 2026 and in LA by mid-2027; Zoox needs US approval
TechCrunch
07:55
Meta says it worked with global law enforcement agencies to disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia and disabled 150K+ accounts tied to scam centers
Axios
07:40
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis
Wall Street Journal
07:30
Translucent, which offers AI tools that help hospitals manage their finances, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024
Fortune
07:20
Meta adds more scam detection tools: Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp device linking warnings, and advanced scam detection on Messenger
The Verge
07:05
Docs and a source: a foreign hacker compromised the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in 2023; the FBI says the “cyber incident” was “an isolated one”
Reuters
06:45
Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end
Wired
06:25
Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024
TechCrunch
06:10
Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark, combining its Societal Impacts, Red Team, and Economic Research teams
The Verge
05:50
Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers
Bloomberg
04:20
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling startup ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from ~120 to ~250
Bloomberg
03:55
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze
Bloomberg
02:30
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as its head of industrial compute and now helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts
Bloomberg
02:00
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages
The Economic Times
01:25
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original
The Register
01:20
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment
Reuters
01:10
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw
Bloomberg
00:55
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish
The Keyword
00:45
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon, which could help boost weekly active users, now at ~920M, short of the 1B goal it had targeted in 2025
The Information

Dienstag, 10. März 2026

23:10
A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B
Wall Street Journal
22:40
A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January
Bloomberg
22:00
Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than a top Intel server CPU
IEEE Spectrum
21:00
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws
CNBC
20:00
Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures
TrendForce
19:20
Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech
Bloomberg
19:00
Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers
CNBC
18:35
Polymarket says it will use a platform built by Palantir and TWG AI to help identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts
Bloomberg
18:10
Sandbar, which is developing the Stream ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M
Upstarts Media
18:00
Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to add Niantic's Visual Positioning System trained on data from Pokémon Go and Ingress into Coco's delivery robots
MIT Technology Review
17:55
Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings
New York Times
17:35
Internal document: the US State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, after Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts
Nextgov/FCW
17:20
Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation
CNBC
17:00
Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; the service was previously only available on the app for One Medical
TechCrunch
16:40
Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise ~$10B; the VC firm raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had $40B+ in AUM as of summer 2025
Bloomberg
16:25
Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M
Fortune
16:20
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., net income up 27% YoY to $3.72B, and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B; ORCL jumps 10%+
CNBC
15:50
MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing the $60.9B made by Disney's media business
The Hollywood Reporter
15:20
Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is investigating claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his private employer
Washington Post
14:50
Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata
Axios
14:00
Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M
TechCrunch
13:35
Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M
CRN
13:05
The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025
The Record
12:35
After social media backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address
The Verge
12:30
Sources: Salesforce plans a record debt sale of up to $25B to fund its share buybacks; the company announced a $50B stock buyback program in February
Bloomberg
12:15
Epic says V-bucks will get more expensive starting March 19, with players getting 800 V-bucks for $8.99, down from 1,000 now, citing Fortnite running costs
The Verge
11:35
Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage
9to5Google
11:30
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using its Comet browser for purchases on behalf of users, and to destroy copies of Amazon's data
Bloomberg
11:25
After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option
TechCrunch
11:05
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product since 2024, killing its set-top box plans, the app fiasco, and more
Bloomberg
10:25
Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets
Bloomberg
10:15
Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation
Bloomberg
10:10
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation”
Axios
09:56
Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook for an undisclosed sum; its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs
Axios
09:55
Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not “comprehensive enough” to handle misinformation in a conflict
The Verge
09:30
Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users
Bloomberg
09:25
Sources: Tencent is developing an AI agent for WeChat that would connect with mini apps running inside WeChat, to compete with Qwen and Doubao
The Information
09:20
Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a “Help me create” tool in Docs to generate first drafts
TechCrunch
09:15
Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US
Bloomberg
09:10
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels
Tom's Hardware
09:05
Thinking Machines Lab signs a deal with Nvidia to deploy 1GW+ of Vera Rubin chips; Nvidia makes a “significant” investment in Thinking Machines Lab
Financial Times
08:55
Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International
Axios
08:50
Amazon raised $37B from a US dollar bond sale, which sources say has drawn ~$126B of orders; the sale could rise to ~$50B with a planned euro debt offering
Bloomberg
08:20
Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages
Financial Times
08:10
AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M
TechCrunch
08:00
Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees
Bloomberg
07:50
Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10K writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work
The Guardian
07:30
Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation
Bloomberg
07:15
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce
The Verge
07:05
AT&T says it plans to spend $250B+ over the next five years to expand its US networks, calling them “critical conduits” for cloud computing and the AI boom
Bloomberg
06:55
AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B
CNBC
06:40
An interview with Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos, promoted from CMO in December 2025, as the dating app hits 1.8M+ paying users, gaining ground while others struggle
Financial Times
06:25
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays its Middle East imagery from four days to two weeks over concerns it could be used to target NATO members
Bloomberg
06:05
A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the “default AI” is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents are here
Andreessen Horowitz
05:50
Pentagon official Emil Michael says Anthropic's lawsuit is an “expected reaction” and “I don't think there's a scenario where this gets resolved in that way”
Bloomberg
05:40
Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025
TechCrunch
03:50
How “dark factories”, powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no human workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs
Bloomberg
02:00
How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams
Wired
01:15
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round
Financial Times

Montag, 9. März 2026

23:40
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, or ~25% of total iPhone production, as it shifts away from China amid US tariffs
Bloomberg
22:55
Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India, more than a decade after it moved to Singapore, as it prepares for a potential IPO in India in the coming months
TechCrunch
22:25
Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago
The Information
21:25
Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation
FinSMEs
20:20
xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away
CNBC
19:55
Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools after Trump called them “woke”
Axios
19:40
Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023
Reuters
19:30
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools as part of it
Wired
19:15
Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary
Bloomberg
18:10
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.3B, below $9.37B est., and Cloud and AI revenue down 2.7% YoY to $6.3B, but reports an AI server backlog of $5B
Bloomberg
17:40
Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and may lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to the supply chain risk designation
Wired
17:00
Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ employees from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US DOD
Wired
16:25
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: the “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU mean beastly performance, but it has a five-year-old design and is $100+ pricier
PCMag
16:21
Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3,300 and only for Macs
The Verge
15:45
SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since November 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI ties grows; on March 9, it closed down 9.8% on Stargate delay reports
Financial Times
15:30
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a typical code review costs $15 to $25 in token usage
ZDNET
15:12
Jay Graber steps down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; Bluesky names VC Toni Schneider as interim CEO
Wired
14:53
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for March, until around September, when the company anticipates the new Siri will be ready
Bloomberg
14:35
NBC News poll of 1,000 registered US voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics
Fortune
13:55
The UK's AI drive to build data centers, touted since 2024 and featuring NScale and CoreWeave deals, is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting
The Guardian