| 11:20 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India |
| 10:40 PM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more |
| 9:45 PM • | Mark Wilson / Fast Company: A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories |
| 8:45 PM • | Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos |
| 6:15 PM • | Andrew Goudsward / Reuters: A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15 |
| 5:20 PM • | Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples: OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm” |
| 4:40 PM • | The Information: Sources: the Chinese startup behind Manus is in talks with US VC firms and others to raise funding at a $500M+ valuation, up ~5x from its previous valuation |
| 4:20 PM • | Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month |
| 3:40 PM • | James Hunt / The Block: Immunefi: crypto industry lost a record $1.64B in Q1 2025 across 40 incidents, including $1.46B from the Bybit hack, vs. $348.3M across 63 incidents in Q1 2024 |
| 2:55 PM • | Kyle Cheney / Politico: Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete |
| 2:45 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries |
| 2:10 PM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work |
| 1:55 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits |
| 1:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10% |
| 1:20 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Fortune: Perplexity says it is working with Seattle-based startup Firmly.ai to make it easier for brands to sell goods directly through Perplexity's shopping results |
| 12:47 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences |
| 12:25 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% |
| 12:10 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M |
| 11:40 AM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers |
| 11:25 AM • | Helen Reid / Reuters: TikTok plans to launch TikTok Shop in France, Germany, and Italy on March 31, expanding its reach in Europe as TikTok's future in the US remains uncertain |
| 11:05 AM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April |
| 10:35 AM • | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Cleo AI agrees to pay $17M to settle US FTC charges that the cash advance startup deceived customers about how much money they could obtain and how quickly |
| 10:15 AM • | Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the startup generated revenue of $2.1B in 2024, up from $1.6B in 2023, but missed its target to be profitable by the end of 2024 |
| 9:50 AM • | Bloomberg: CoreWeave Raises $1.5 Billion in Downsized IPO Below Price Target |
| 9:25 AM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Instacart rolls out Store View, paying shoppers to film store shelves “one aisle at a time” to assess inventory, starting with select US and Canadian retailers |
| 9:10 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans |
| 8:05 AM • | Reuters: Client notice: Chinese server maker H3C warns of potential shortages of Nvidia's H20 chips, the most advanced AI chips available in China under US export rules |
| 7:45 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Xiaomi's Poco unveils the £649+ F7 Ultra, with a 6.67" display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, a triple rear camera, 120W wired charging, and IP68, and the £499+ F7 Pro |
| 7:30 AM • | Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta VP of Asia Pacific Dan Neary is leaving for personal reasons; the Singapore-based executive joined in 2013, and Meta now has ~1.1B users in the region |
| 7:10 AM • | Financial Times: Pat Gelsinger says TSMC's pledge to invest $100B+ in US chip manufacturing will do little to restore the US' chipmaking leadership, as R&D will remain in Taiwan |
| 6:55 AM • | The Information: Source: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Lepton AI, which rents Nvidia GPU-based servers, for several hundred million dollars; Lepton raised $11M in 2023 |
| 6:40 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns |
| 6:30 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: An EU confidential decision, now public, shows the EU pressed Meta to create a separate version of Facebook Marketplace or let users access rival services |
| 6:15 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Sources: after nearly five years of building a US plant, TSMC expects new factories to take two years; TSMC plans a 3nm US plant by 2028 and a 2nm one by 2030 |
| 5:55 AM • | Casey Muratori / Computer, Enhance!: Q&A with Mike Clark, the chief architect of AMD's Zen microarchitecture, on x86, ARM, CPUs vs GPUs, Zen 4 to Zen 5, software developers, and more |
| 5:40 AM • | Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China |
| 5:25 AM • | Claire L. Evans / Wired: A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world |
| 5:00 AM • | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm |
| 4:47 AM • | Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults: 34% support a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023, and 49% say TikTok is a national security threat, down from 59% in May 2023 |
| 2:55 AM • | Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses |
| 2:40 AM • | Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle |
| 1:50 AM • | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The Trump administration cut $20M for the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, or ~10% of BIS' budget |
| 1:35 AM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic and Databricks ink a five-year deal, expected to jointly generate $100M in revenue, by selling AI tools to businesses developing their own AI agents |
| 1:20 AM • | Dylan Butts / CNBC: Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones |
| 12:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers |
| 12:30 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins VC firm Playground Global as a GP and the board of portfolio startup xLight, which develops lasers for chip manufacturing |
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