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Sat Mar 7
Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity "reckoning", not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
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Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
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Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic)
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Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
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Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
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Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
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Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
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Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
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True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
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Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
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Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters)
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
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GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
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Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-based study tool to help students generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, cannot be trusted because it has no SEC definition and can be massaged (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
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Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
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Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a "help is available" module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
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The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
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Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (New York Times)
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The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
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MLB rolls out "robot umps", or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
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South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (Financial Times)
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Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
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Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed "Claudeonomics" where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like "Token Legend" status (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
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A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (Filippo Valsorda)
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OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)
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A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)
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A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global "containment" (Reuters)
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Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
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Oracle reinstates the CFO role, appointing Hilary Maxson after Safra Catz became principal financial officer in 2014, amid investor scrutiny over AI spending (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (William Langley/Financial Times)
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Sources: Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production (Nikkei Asia)
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Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its San Francisco HQ, London, and Zurich (Financial Times)
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Q&A with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on data centers in space, memory shortage, Cisco's networking business, AI bubble, layoffs, AI coding, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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A look at Alibaba's Accio, an AI sourcing tool that helps small online sellers connect with manufacturers, including in China, and exceeded 10M MAUs in March (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
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An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)
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Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch (Echo Wang/Reuters)
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Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies, and is in talks to raise $1B for the effort (Wall Street Journal)
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The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the "Actually Smart Summon" driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents (Reuters)
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A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns (Elsa Ohlen/CNBC)
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Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
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Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)
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