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Drones caused a Qatari Helium&producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

Drones caused a Qatari Helium&producing energy hub to s...

Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance: Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub t...

Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyp...

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto...

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic...

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Pate...

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI&powered tools of war, now playing out in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details...

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven deta...

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tig...

Anastasia Stognei / Financial Times: Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the...

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations...

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operati...

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be "original content" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect an...

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic research...

The Information: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to d...

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese traders and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, helped move $1B to Iran&linked groups (Fortune)

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including t...

Fortune: Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chin...

Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker a...

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on S...

Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities&trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working&class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "human...

Kelby Vera / HuffPost: Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanit...

Ireland’s deputy PM warns of ‘near&existential moment’ for EU amid global turmoil

Ireland’s deputy PM warns of ‘near&existential moment’ ...

The European Union is facing an “almost existential moment” as it seeks to weath...

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the U...

Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in ...

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation...

Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw ...

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with ...

Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that...

Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a fl...

Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a ...

Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four&year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers (Financial Times)

Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from...

Financial Times: Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regu...

Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Musk says they are a joint xAI&Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled a...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stal...

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI...

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teen...

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand, and Canada, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand...

Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New...

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help...

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI&powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Ph...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google P...

Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high&speed storage (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing ...

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing ...

In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password&protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)

In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity t...

Bloomberg: In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using C...

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)

Dify, which offers an open&source platform to build and...

FinSMEs: Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applicat...

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)

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southave...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, M...

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

Sources: the White House is preparing an executive orde...

Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order for...

London&based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build "AI&powered factories" (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

London&based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in d...

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: London-based Isembard, which helps hardware ma...

Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for ...

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a f...

Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion (Bloomberg)

Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage fir...

Bloomberg: Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M ac...

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce bu...

Harvard Business Review: A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce bu...

Luma AI debuts Uni&1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic&based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Luma AI debuts Uni&1, an image model that combines imag...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combin...

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin&based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building s...

Emily Mason / Bloomberg: How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building s...

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: German quick grocery delivery startup Flink r...

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open to strategic co&operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open...

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it ...

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggr...

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an...

Leading the Future, a pro&AI PAC backed by Palantir&cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro&regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Leading the Future, a pro&AI PAC backed by Palantir&cof...

Nancy Scola / Politico: Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofo...

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robot...

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robo...

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Ba...

Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE a...

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour ...

Bobby Allyn / NPR: A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Po...

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to ...

The Information: Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise fu...

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest p...

Nikkei Asia: China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes a...

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolv...

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved fro...

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non&defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working w...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working wit...

Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reporte...

Lola Murti / CNBC: Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 r...

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two&month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders (Financial Times)

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes f...

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI tr...

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settle...

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic set...

Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets ...

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16&person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16&person company founded...

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded...

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregi...

Reuters: Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing ...

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