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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)

Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave "insufficient forethought" about consequences (Bill Ready/Time)

Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of "unnecessary" Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET)

Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 (Reuters)

Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4 (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

OpenAI plans "an autonomous AI research intern" by September and says its "North Star" is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve "faked" compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence (DeepDelver)

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested "in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors" (Arthur Mensch/Financial Times)

The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more (Politico)

Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit (Jessica Sui/Bloomberg)

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the start of 2026 and employed ~445 people as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (The Block)

Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments (Bloomberg)

Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of "Project Sunrise", its proposed orbital AI data center system (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)

How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)