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CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool that manages staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

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Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends (Reuters)

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Sources: European chip importers are tapping backup stores and paying higher air freight costs as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern cargo routes (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate "one-person companies", startups run by a single founder with AI's help (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Horizon Worlds will remain in VR for the "foreseeable future", after Meta said Quest headset users will lose access from June 15 (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)

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Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M-$350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue hits $400M, up from $200M in October 2025 (Katie Roof/The Information)

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Chip industry executives say chip testing companies are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares more than tripled in the past year (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

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PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

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Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (South China Morning Post)

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (Oma Seddiq/Bloomberg Law)

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Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang)

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Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an "AI-native" design canvas and a reasoning design agent (Rustin Banks/The Keyword)

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AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

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Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (Reuters)

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Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT, after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)

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LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

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Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

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Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (Laurent Giret/Thurrott)

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NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

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Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M+ (Bloomberg)

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Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (Upstarts Media)

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During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI does purchase "commercially available information" that can be used to track people's location history (Alfred Ng/Politico)

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Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)

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Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; it opened its first flagship store in LA in 2025 (Kanika Talwar/WWD)

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Sources: Coinbase and Zerohash are among the companies vying to issue Cloudflare's stablecoin, set to launch this year to support payments for the "agentic web" (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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Director Coerte Voorhees says he is using AI to feature Val Kilmer in "a significant part" in an indie film, with the cooperation of the late actor's estate (Brent Lang/Variety)

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Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its first profit since its 2007 founding, while revenue fell 1.4% YoY to €534M (Financial Times)

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Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January (Madison Mills/Axios)

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Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

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Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed (CTech)

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Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (Graham Fraser/BBC)

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Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)

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Advanced Navigation, which makes AI-assisted hardware to let ships and aircraft navigate even when GPS is jammed, raised a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)

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RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)

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Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the generative AI tech homogenizes games are "completely wrong" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)

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Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

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