Sonntag, 22. März 2026

12:35
A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year
Forbes
10:00
A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe
Bloomberg
05:30
An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte
Not Boring by Packy McCormick
01:30
Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX
Bloomberg
01:10
Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store “monopolistic”
Bloomberg
00:45
Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion
TechCrunch

Samstag, 21. März 2026

23:55
Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more
The Verge
20:25
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places
The Guardian
17:05
A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using
New York Times
15:01
Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real
Washington Post
13:01
Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked
The Information
12:10
CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP
The Information
11:05
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom
Forbes
08:35
Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars
Wired
08:35
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers
Financial Times
05:35
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments
The Guardian
02:35
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats
Colossus
01:55
A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0”
New York Times
01:30
Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal
Forbes

Freitag, 20. März 2026

21:20
Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal
Bloomberg
21:05
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile
Reuters
20:40
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal
Wall Street Journal
20:20
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war
Wired
20:00
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military
Reuters
19:55
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks
CyberScoop
19:20
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible
Reuters
18:25
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio
Associated Press
17:47
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid
Bloomberg
17:30
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 is “the foundation” of Cursor's Composer 2 model; Cursor says it “should have mentioned” Composer 2 started from the base of Kimi K2.5
@kimi_moonshot
17:05
Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
CNBC
16:55
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord
Implicator.ai
16:05
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers
CNBC
15:25
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences
Time
15:15
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more
ZDNET
14:45
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024
Reuters
14:10
Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4
Bloomberg
13:20
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations
Wired
13:15
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more
TechCrunch
13:00
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028
MIT Technology Review
11:35
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence
DeepDelver
11:00
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January
The Verge
10:20
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors”
Financial Times
09:15
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more
Politico
08:50
Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit
Bloomberg
06:35
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014
Reuters
05:55
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the start of 2026 and employed ~445 people as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025
Bloomberg
05:50
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021
Bloomberg
05:05
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi 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 in ~24 hours after investors punished the two Chinese tech leaders for unclear AI monetization plans
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 third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground
Decrypt
23:10
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system
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
AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to 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 November 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, generating $8M+ 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 co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
CNBC
18:50
OpenAI plans to merge 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 privately discussed issues like export controls with the House Homeland Security Committee on March 18, only briefly mentioning its DOD fight
Axios
18:20
Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including its 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 conversations
Wired
15:40
Sources: Google this week started privately consumer beta testing a dedicated Gemini app for macOS, 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 like chipmaking and defense and automate them with AI
Wall Street Journal
14:35
Google moved some employees 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 losing ~$80B on the endeavor, as Meta goes all in on 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, while Composer 2 Fast costs 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 has driven 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 lengthy coding tasks autonomously, 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