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Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software (Aaron Levie/@levie)

Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers, and more; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

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The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

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How some candidates for the midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (New York Times)

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A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

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Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)

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A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open to strategic co-operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)

As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)

China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)

US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times)

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)

Alphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

In a Twitter shareholder trial, former CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal disputed Musk's claims that they lied to him about the percentage of spam accounts (Bloomberg)

A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow "any lawful" use by the government of their models (Financial Times)

Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October (Wall Street Journal)

The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg)

IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete (Forbes)

President Trump signs an EO aimed at fighting cybercrime, directing officials to identify robust tools to combat transnational criminal organizations (Catherine Lucey/Bloomberg)

Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to "feel like a mini AGI", his take on Elon Musk's X, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in "unlawful" EOs (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)

Interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael on his view that Anthropic leaked negotiations to the press to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei, and more (Pirate Wires)

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)