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Amazon acquired New York&based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human&like, 42&inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon acquired New York&based Fauna Robotics, which is...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is...

Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws by marketing Grok as generally safe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, a...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accus...

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential&stealing code (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLM...

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessi...

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this quarter to 4M units, down ~33% from 6M, after weaker&than&expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this...

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 productio...

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatb...

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI cha...

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co&founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI ...

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspend...

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI...

Lex Fridman: Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nv...

Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8&12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in&person event at Apple Park on June 8 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8&12, which will be ...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be ...

Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on st...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on ...

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)

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share,...

Mike Sorrentino / CNET: Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, ...

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)

Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion&d...

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Elliott has a mu...

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)

Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta...

Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all ...

A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, no...

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now...

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)

An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potentia...

Not Boring by Packy McCormick: An essay on the history, theory, progress, and po...

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)

Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin&based project ru...

Bloomberg: Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and...

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)

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees...

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where empl...

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)

Social media accounts showing AI&generated women as pro...

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Social media accounts showing AI-generated women...

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)

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and L...

Shubham Agarwal / The Guardian: How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile...

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)

Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it...

Steven Levy / Wired: Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it dou...

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)

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, wh...

Chang Che / The Guardian: A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, w...

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)

Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees b...

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the en...

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)

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven...

David Jeans / Reuters: Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven A...

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)

Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobb...

Wall Street Journal: Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist...

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)

Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once...

Paresh Dave / Wired: Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the...

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

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to S...

Bloomberg: Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, ow...

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transform...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing “Transfor...

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

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30%...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30%...

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser i...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its ...

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House H...

Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homela...

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of oth...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of ot...

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)

Paris&based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hosp...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for...

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)

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows ...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflo...

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)

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office ...

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Chinese cities are offering free apartments and offi...

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)

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Parad...

Upstarts Media: Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a ...

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)

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says F...

Alfred Ng / Politico: During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI ...

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)

Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk off...

Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk ...

BTS fever grips Seoul as boy band return after four&year hiatus

BTS fever grips Seoul as boy band return after four&yea...

The long-awaited return to the stage of K-pop sensation BTS is set to boost Sout...

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft&OpenAI agreement (Financial Times)

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon a...

Financial Times: Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenA...

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI&generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants f...

Simon Sharwood / The Register: The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total gr...

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi&year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi&yea...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year...

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemin...

Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high&end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high&e...

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPU...

Tel Aviv& and Seattle&based Native, which helps companies monitor security across cloud providers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed and a $31M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Tel Aviv& and Seattle&based Native, which helps compani...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies...

A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

A reporter details harassment and death threats from ga...

Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel: A reporter details harassment and death th...

Fuse, which offers AI&powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Fuse, which offers AI&powered loan origination software...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination softw...

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reas...

Mistral AI: Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multim...

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargat...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to overse...

Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting "AI face models" to facilitate crypto and romance scams; some demand 100+ video calls per day (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are r...

Matt Burgess / Wired: Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recr...

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms incl...

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Ad...

Standard Kernel, which is making AI&powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)

Standard Kernel, which is making AI&powered GPU optimiz...

Clinton Nwachukwu / Ventureburn: Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU...

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