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Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (Reuters)

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Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)

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Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 (Fortune)

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Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program (CNBC)

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Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

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Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

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Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI "might be the last time" it invests in the company, because OpenAI is "going to go public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

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Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the "supply-chain risk" designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue (Reuters)

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Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation (Bloomberg)

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The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

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A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines "many times" (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

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Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an "extreme" reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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MacBook Neo hands-on: it doesn't feel budget, with an aluminum body and weighing 2.7 lbs like the Air, but it has a flimsy keyboard and no option above 8GB RAM (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

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Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID (Tom's Hardware)

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Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming "performance cores" to "super cores" and "efficiency cores" to "performance cores" (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

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Sources: Sony no longer plans to release its big single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major strategy shift that sees it returning to console exclusivity (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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Perplexity signs a multiyear deal with CoreWeave to use dedicated clusters powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips for AI inference; CRWV jumps 5%+ (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Kraken says its banking unit won "master account" access to the US Fed's core payment systems, making it the first crypto company that can move money like banks (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of the Iran strikes (Washington Post)

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Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Boston-based Whoop, which makes screenless fitness bands, says it plans to grow staff by up to 75% in 2026, adding 600+ roles, ahead of a likely IPO (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI (Vivian Wang/New York Times)

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X user TheGhostOfHope, one of top Call of Duty leakers, says Activision "legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

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Analysis: since 2025's end, Polymarket users rarely bet large sums on US strikes by the next day; the day before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts made such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)

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Sources: Walmart-backed PhonePe targets an up to $10.5B valuation in its Indian IPO; PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation in October (Jaspreet Kalra/Reuters)

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Visa and Stripe's Bridge plan to expand their partnership to issue stablecoin-linked cards in 100+ countries; the cards are currently live in 18 countries (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 for smartphones, promising enhanced drop durability over multiple years, first launching on the new Motorola Razr Fold (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Sources: President Trump met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on March 3 before publicly admonishing banks over the GENIUS Act, echoing Coinbase's position (Jasper Goodman/Politico)

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An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for "unclassified networks" (Hyunsu Yim/Reuters)

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Asia's smaller chip companies are joining their bigger peers in hiking prices as robust AI demand fuels capex, projected to rise 25% YoY to over $136B in 2026 (Nikkei Asia)

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The UK government commits an initial £40M to an AI research lab, modeled on its DARPA-inspired ARIA, seeking breakthroughs in science, healthcare, and transport (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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Sea's NY-listed shares fell up to 27% on March 3, their worst intraday drop since 2023, after Sea reports Q4 net income up 73% YoY to $410.9M, below $442M est. (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

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Lockheed Martin plans to follow the US federal ban on Anthropic; government contracting lawyers say defense contractors are expected to comply with the US order (Reuters)

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Security researchers successfully prompted the AI behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an "unrestricted therapeutic", and more (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a higher retention than OpenAI, emphasizing its "mission" as a way to reinforce staff loyalty and fend off competitors' offers (The Information)

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TikTok says it won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and its safety teams from reading messages when needed and it wants to protect young users (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

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KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)

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Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D, with $50M coming from the UK government's National Wealth Fund; Nvidia's NVentures also invested (Tom Nugent/Sifted)

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Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games (Financial Times)

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