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Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Sony is nearing a binding agreement to sell a 51% stake in its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL for ~$1B as soon as this month (Bloomberg)

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Addison Lee CEO Liam Griffin says London cab drivers should be protected via "a minimum price" on Waymo's and Tesla's robotaxis to prevent "predatory pricing" (Financial Times)

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NYC-based Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised $110M led by Balderton at a $1B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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The EC's EU Inc. proposal is a missed opportunity, leaving national courts to interpret corporate rules, and it seems like Brussels has pre-emptively aimed low (Martin Sandbu/Financial Times)

Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to "diversify to other chips" as "we have a lot of Nvidia chips" (Bloomberg)

Singapore-based Grab agrees to buy Delivery Hero's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600M in cash, its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian home market (Bloomberg)

Indian media: Indian police arrest two CoinDCX cofounders, after a complainant alleged investment fraud tied to the exchange; CoinDCX calls the claims "false" (Zack Abrams/The Block)

A profile of AWS at its 20th anniversary, covering its creation, rise to market dominance, response to the ChatGPT disruption, and the future of its AI bets (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Inside Amazon's plan to bring fast delivery to rural America and reduce its reliance on USPS; Amazon aims to have 200 rural delivery hubs serving 13K zip codes (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)

Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of "demand response" in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours (Laila Kearney/Reuters)

A look at Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)

Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

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A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources describe Meta's efforts to build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters)

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Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)

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AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year (Yue Wang/Forbes)

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A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

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An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)

Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (Bloomberg)

Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store "monopolistic" (Bloomberg)

Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)

Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)

A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as "News 2.0" (New York Times)

Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal (Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)

The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as "free" when many taxpayers are ineligible (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio (Associated Press)

A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid (Bloomberg)

Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 is "the foundation" of Cursor's Composer 2 model; Cursor says it "should have mentioned" Composer 2 started from the base of Kimi K2.5 (@kimi_moonshot)