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Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists to fight AI impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

Sources: Meta buys Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, for an undisclosed fee, set to close in mid-March, and hires creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr (Ina Fried/Axios)

Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao (The Information)

Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a "Help me create" tool in Docs to generate first drafts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips (Financial Times)

Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sources: Amazon starts its bond sale, targeting ~$37B to ~$42B in an offering in dollars and euros, in potentially one of the biggest-ever corporate bond sales (Bloomberg)

Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Meta emails advertisers about "location fees" in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

AT&T says it plans to spend $250B+ over the next five years to build out its US infrastructure, including high-speed fiber; AT&T spent $21B on capex in 2025 (Bloomberg)

AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

An interview with Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos, promoted from CMO in December 2025, as the dating app hits 1.8M+ paying users, gaining ground while others struggle (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays Middle East imagery to two weeks from four days over concerns it could be used to target NATO members (Aaron Clark/Bloomberg)

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)

Pentagon official Emil Michael says Anthropic's lawsuit is an "expected reaction" and "I don't think there's a scenario where this gets resolved in that way" (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (Bloomberg)

How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams (Arielle Pardes/Wired)

Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago (The Information)

Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools (Maria Curi/Axios)

Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023 (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it (Wired)

Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

HPE reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.3B, vs. $9.37B est., Cloud and AI revenue down 2.7% YoY to $6.3B but reports an AI server backlog of $5B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)

More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: "Super core" architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design (Brian Westover/PCMag)

Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3300 and only for Macs (John Higgins/The Verge)

SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)

Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)