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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.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B, above $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ pre-market — Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation — Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic on Tuesday, saying a judge should issue a restraining order that would block …
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts — Polymarket is enlisting firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. to help police its sports contracts as prediction markets face intense scrutiny over insider trading.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
After social media backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address — No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is probing claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer — The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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 — The team behind Aaru is attracting brands including McDonald's and EY by betting AI bots can predict human behavior better than humans can| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots — Pokémon Go was the world's first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January — Chen Zhi developed a sprawling network of politicians and banks while he built a global fortune and alleged “pig butchering” scam hubs.| Bloomberg: |
Amazon raised $37B from a US dollar bond sale, which sources say has drawn ~$126B of orders; the sale could rise to ~$50B with a planned euro debt offering — Amazon.com Inc. has raised $37 billion from a US dollar bond sale that could swell to nearly $50 billion with a planned euro debt offering.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech — Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta and former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman are looking to raise …
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| Bloomberg: |
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using its Comet browser for purchases on behalf of users, and to destroy copies of Amazon's data — Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers … | Barbara Booth / CNBC: |
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws — New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts — For months, OpenAI's Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze — This cohort has become an increasingly important driver of investment growth in the world's second-largest economy. — By Bloomberg Businessweek| Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: |
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 — Anduril Industries Inc. is set to double the size of its space unit with the acquisition of national security company ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original — Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk — Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard … | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment — Applied Materials (AMAT.O) said on Tuesday it has partnered with memory chip companies Micron Technology (MU.O) and SK Hynix … | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Sandbar, which is developing the Stream ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M — Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi has raised $23M in Series A funding to fuel the launch of his AI note-taking ring, called Stream.
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| TrendForce: |
Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures — - For a mainstream notebook with an MSRP of US$900, surging memory prices alone could raise retail prices by more than 30%; …
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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs — Fully homomorphic encryption chip speeds operations 5,000-fold — Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor editor. — SUMMARY| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers — Elon Musk's xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant …
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| Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish — We're bringing Chrome's powerful AI features to more regions and languages, helping millions of people get the most out of their browser.| The Economic Times: |
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages — Lossfunk, an AI lab founded by Paras Chopra, created a prompting method that helps large language models produce Tulu text without prior training.
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw — Chinese authorities moved to restrict state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers …
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