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Sat Mar 7
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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Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic)
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The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times)
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Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg)
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Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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A look at Eko, whose Arkansas "capture factory" creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
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How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
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A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
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Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
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Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff have departed over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
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How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired)
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Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)
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Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath (New Yorker)
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Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
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OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
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Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, and others record an increase in demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
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Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
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Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to acquire Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B+ contract with Olam (Reuters)
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Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue (Wall Street Journal)
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Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom's Hardware)
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Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025 (The Information)
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China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times)
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A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk)
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Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
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Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
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