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Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook for an undisclosed sum; its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs  —  Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned. … - Meta did not disclose Moltbook's purchase price.
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
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  —  Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1bn for his new start-up in Europe's largest ever seed funding round.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
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  —  Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’  —  Amazon's ecommerce business …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
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  —  Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
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”  —  A top Pentagon official sees little chance of resuming negotiations with Anthropic PBC over military use …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ employees from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US DOD
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and may lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to the supply chain risk designation
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels  —  The MacBook Neo looks and feels like it's expensive.  That's the magic. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware …
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Epic says V-bucks will get more expensive starting March 19, with players getting 800 V-bucks for $8.99, down from 1,000 now, citing Fortnite running costs  —  Starting on March 19th, Fortnite players will get fewer V-bucks for their money. … For instance, players can currently …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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  —  In a slight capitulation to those who don't want AI infused into their everyday apps …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize  —  No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren …
Financial Times:
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  —  Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce  —  ART BY SAMAR HADDAD  —  This article is a collaboration between The Verge and New York Magazine.
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation”  —  YouTube is expanding a tool designed to detect impersonations to a select group of government officials, political candidates and journalists.
Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz:
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 are here
Wired:
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools as part of it  —  Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, or ~25% of total iPhone production, as it shifts away from China amid US tariffs  —  Apple Inc. increased iPhone production in India by about 53% last year and now makes a quarter of its marquee devices there …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10K writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work  —  About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a typical code review costs $15 to $25 in token usage  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests.  — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage  —  In the midst of frankly insane market conditions, Oppo and OnePlus have confirmed plans to raise prices of existing smartphones and other products starting next week.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product since 2024, killing its set-top box plans, the app fiasco, and more  —  Tom Conrad's tenure as CEO of Sonos Inc. kicked off with both personal and company crises.  —  He had spent years as a board member …
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