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

Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599+ with no Touch ID and 256GB of storage and $699+ with Touch ID and 512GB, in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not "get to make operational decisions" regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)

TikTok USDS says users "may temporarily experience lags in posting content" due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.30B est., a profit of $38.7M, compared with a loss of $86.3M a year earlier (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service "in the coming months"; some shows will be available on Audible (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a "desktop-like multi-window experience" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with "extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative" short-term PR (Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic says voice mode for Claude Code is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure (Andre Revilla/Engadget)

Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)