| 10:45 PM • | Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs |
| 10:35 PM • | Clive Thompson / New York Times: Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more |
| 10:00 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is lowering its commission for its mainland China App Store from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, “following discussions with the Chinese regulator” |
| 9:55 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach |
| 9:20 PM • | Erin Brodwin / Axios: Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others |
| 8:45 PM • | Associated Press: Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children |
| 8:25 PM • | Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site |
| 8:05 PM • | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US appeals court voids much of a March 2025 injunction blocking California's online child safety law, while keeping some of the law's provisions blocked |
| 7:50 PM • | Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products |
| 7:45 PM • | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.4B, vs. $6.28B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and forecasts Q2 revenue between $6.43B and $6.48B, vs. $6.43B est. |
| 7:25 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO |
| 5:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 |
| 5:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region |
| 4:20 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after a successor is named; he became CEO in 2007 and will remain as chair of the board; ADBE drops 6%+ after hours |
| 4:00 PM • | The Information: xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by “the middle of this year” |
| 3:15 PM • | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA |
| 2:55 PM • | Georgie McKay / Bloomberg: PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade |
| 2:15 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would “pollute” the DOD's supply chain because they have “a different policy preference” that is baked in |
| 1:40 PM • | Colin Demarest / Axios: Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 |
| 1:01 PM • | Jessica Lyons / The Register: A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide |
| 12:50 PM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year |
| 12:35 PM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Michael Dell says “I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools”, responding to a question on the Anthropic feud |
| 12:25 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark |
| 12:15 PM • | Martin Coulter / Sifted: Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin |
| 12:10 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta |
| 12:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M |
| 11:45 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content |
| 11:40 AM • | Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net: European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes |
| 11:30 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP |
| 11:10 AM • | Max Hunder / Reuters: Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models |
| 11:05 AM • | Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures |
| 10:45 AM • | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO |
| 10:40 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP |
| 10:30 AM • | Robert Scammell / Business Insider: Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding |
| 10:20 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ |
| 10:15 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital |
| 9:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source |
| 9:20 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle |
| 9:10 AM • | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US |
| 8:40 AM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational Google Maps feature that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”, available in the US and India |
| 8:30 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ |
| 7:45 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 |
| 7:25 AM • | Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B |
| 7:10 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation |
| 6:50 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles |
| 6:35 AM • | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment |
| 6:15 AM • | Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M |
| 5:55 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation |
| 5:40 AM • | Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more |
| 5:00 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng |
| 4:35 AM • | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ |
| 4:15 AM • | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services were 19% each |
| 3:55 AM • | CoinDesk: Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure |
| 3:10 AM • | Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all |
| 2:55 AM • | Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility |
| 2:45 AM • | Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: IDC: Motorola holds ~50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google, but ~13% in Europe, for a global ~14% share |
| 2:35 AM • | Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze |
| 2:05 AM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week |
| 1:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others |
| 1:40 AM • | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework |
| 12:25 AM • | Financial Times: SEC filing: Oracle sets aside $500M more for restructuring, taking its FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI coding tools |
| 12:05 AM • | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026 |
| 11:20 PM • | The Information: Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies |
| 11:15 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake |
| 11:05 PM • | CoinDesk: Binance.US names Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO |
| 10:50 PM • | Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that earned $100K+ in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users in February |
| 10:15 PM • | Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants |
| 9:50 PM • | Laura Cress / BBC: The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites |
| 9:35 PM • | Richard Nieva / Forbes: Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 |
| 9:05 PM • | CNBC: Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges |
| 8:55 PM • | Tom Dotan / Newcomer: Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B |
| 8:25 PM • | Michelle Chan / Financial Times: Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs |
| 8:05 PM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based startup's first international autonomous vehicle deployment |
| 7:25 PM • | Miles Klee / Wired: Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved “misappropriation” |
| 6:35 PM • | The Information: Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of megawatts of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle abandoned its expansion deal there |
| 6:10 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: SoftBank's PayPay priced its US IPO at $16 per share, below its targeted price range of between $17 and $20, raising $880M, valuing the payments app at $10.7B |
| 5:50 PM • | Will Knight / Wired: Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models |
| 4:55 PM • | Abhijith M B / Windows Latest: Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors |
| 4:45 PM • | The Verge: Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027 |
| 4:40 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent initially only for macOS, and an enterprise version of its cloud-based Perplexity Computer |
| 4:35 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets |
| 4:25 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen |
| 3:35 PM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticizes the slow pace of Amazon's satellite launches, after Amazon raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to launch up to 1M satellites |
| 3:25 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions “inspired by” real writers without permission, after backlash |
| 3:10 PM • | James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran |
| 3:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Ripple kicks off a share buyback at a $50B valuation to repurchase up to $750M in shares from investors and employees in a tender offer through April |
| 2:50 PM • | Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: Anthropic says Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now share full context across open files, and skills are available inside Excel and PowerPoint add-ins |
| 2:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Amazon raised €14.5B in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency, following a dollar offering on Tuesday that raised $37B |
| 2:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet |
| 1:52 PM • | Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project |
| 12:35 PM • | Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: 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 |
| 12:10 PM • | Financial Times: 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 |
| 12:02 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp adds parent-managed accounts for users under the age of 13 and says the accounts will not get access to features like Meta AI, Channels, or Status |
| 11:46 AM • | James Manso / WWD: Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 |
| 11:35 AM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered factory robots, raised $500M led by Accel and a16z, source says at a $2B valuation |
| 11:31 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Axiamatic, which offers an “agentic control plane” to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer |
| 11:16 AM • | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Kai, which is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform, raised $125M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners |
| 10:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking |
| 10:01 AM • | Financial Times: Investors flee to Magnificent Seven stocks due to the US-led war in Iran; tech is up 1.5% from February 27, the only S&P 500 sector to rise since the strikes |
| 9:35 AM • | Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country |
| 9:25 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition yet; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 |
| 9:15 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet |
| 9:10 AM • | Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: TikTok partners with Apple to let Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the TikTok app, and use a Listening Party feature, in the coming weeks |
| 8:55 AM • | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Binance files a New York defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iran-linked transactions |
| 8:46 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major upgrades, and no Qi2 charging magnets |
| 8:35 AM • | Maria Varenikova / New York Times: How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few components from China as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon |
| 8:25 AM • | CNN: CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to “teen” personas 50%+ of the time; only Claude consistently refused |
| 8:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Amsterdam-based Nebius says Nvidia plans to invest $2B in the startup as it plans to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW+ of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 |
| 8:10 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in summer 2026 and in LA by mid-2027; Zoox needs US approval |
| 7:55 AM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: Meta says it worked with global law enforcement agencies to disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia and disabled 150K+ accounts tied to scam centers |
| 7:40 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis |
| 7:30 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Translucent, which offers AI tools that help hospitals manage their finances, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 |
| 7:20 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta adds more scam detection tools: Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp device linking warnings, and advanced scam detection on Messenger |
| 7:05 AM • | Raphael Satter / Reuters: Docs and a source: a foreign hacker compromised the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in 2023; the FBI says the “cyber incident” was “an isolated one” |
| 6:45 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end |
| 6:25 AM • | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 |
| 6:10 AM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark, combining its Societal Impacts, Red Team, and Economic Research teams |
| 5:50 AM • | Alice French / Bloomberg: Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers |
| 4:20 AM • | Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling startup ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from ~120 to ~250 |
| 3:55 AM • | 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 |
| 2:30 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as its head of industrial compute and now helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts |
| 2:00 AM • | 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 |
| 1:25 AM • | 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 |
| 1:20 AM • | 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 |
| 1:10 AM • | 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 |
| 12:55 AM • | 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 |
| 12:45 AM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon, which could help boost weekly active users, now at ~920M, short of the 1B goal it had targeted in 2025 |
| 11:10 PM • | 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 |
| 10:40 PM • | 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 |
| 10:00 PM • | 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 a top Intel server CPU |
| 9:00 PM • | 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 |
| 8:00 PM • | 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 |
| 7:20 PM • | 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 |
| 7:00 PM • | 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 |
| 6:35 PM • | Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Polymarket says it will use a platform built by Palantir and TWG AI to help identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts |
| 6:10 PM • | 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 |
| 6:00 PM • | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to add Niantic's Visual Positioning System trained on data from Pokémon Go and Ingress into Coco's delivery robots |
| 5:55 PM • | Catie Edmondson / New York Times: Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings |
| 5:35 PM • | Nextgov/FCW: Internal document: the US State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, after Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts |
| 5:20 PM • | 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 |
| 5:00 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; the service was previously only available on the app for One Medical |
| 4:40 PM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise ~$10B; the VC firm raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had $40B+ in AUM as of summer 2025 |
| 4:25 PM • | Catherina Gioino / Fortune: Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M |
| 4:20 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., net income up 27% YoY to $3.72B, and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B; ORCL jumps 10%+ |
| 3:50 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing the $60.9B made by Disney's media business |
| 3:20 PM • | Washington Post: Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is investigating claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his private employer |
| 2:50 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata |
| 2:00 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 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 |
| 1:35 PM • | CJ Fairfield / CRN: Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M |
| 1:05 PM • | Martin Matishak / The Record: The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 |
| 12:35 PM • | 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 |
| 12:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Salesforce plans a record debt sale of up to $25B to fund its share buybacks; the company announced a $50B stock buyback program in February |
| 12:15 PM • | 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 |
| 11:35 AM • | 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 |
| 11:30 AM • | 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 |
| 11:25 AM • | 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 |
| 11:05 AM • | 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 |
| 10:25 AM • | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets |
| 10:15 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation |
| 10:10 AM • | Kerry Flynn / Axios: YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation” |
| 9:56 AM • | 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 |
| 9:55 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not “comprehensive enough” to handle misinformation in a conflict |
| 9:30 AM • | Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users |
| 9:25 AM • | The Information: Sources: Tencent is developing an AI agent for WeChat that would connect with mini apps running inside WeChat, to compete with Qwen and Doubao |
| 9:20 AM • | 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 |
| 9:15 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US |
| 9:10 AM • | 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 |
| 9:05 AM • | Financial Times: Thinking Machines Lab signs a deal with Nvidia to deploy 1GW+ of Vera Rubin chips; Nvidia makes a “significant” investment in Thinking Machines Lab |
| 8:55 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Paris-based Qevlar AI, an agentic AI developer for security operations centers, raised $30M led by Partech and Forgepoint Capital International |
| 8:50 AM • | 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 |
| 8:20 AM • | 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 |
| 8:10 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M |
| 8:00 AM • | Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees |
| 7:50 AM • | 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 |
| 7:30 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation |
| 7:15 AM • | 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: AT&T says it plans to spend $250B+ over the next five years to expand its US networks, calling them “critical conduits” for cloud computing and the AI boom |
| 6:55 AM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B |
| 6:40 AM • | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: An interview with Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos, promoted from CMO in December 2025, as the dating app hits 1.8M+ paying users, gaining ground while others struggle |
| 6:25 AM • | Aaron Clark / Bloomberg: US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays its Middle East imagery from four days to two weeks over concerns it could be used to target NATO members |
| 6:05 AM • | 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 |
| 5:50 AM • | 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” |
| 5:40 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 |
| 3:50 AM • | Bloomberg: How “dark factories”, powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no human workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs |
| 2:00 AM • | Arielle Pardes / Wired: How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams |
| 1:15 AM • | 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 |
| 11:40 PM • | 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 |
| 10:55 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India, more than a decade after it moved to Singapore, as it prepares for a potential IPO in India in the coming months |
| 10:25 PM • | The Information: Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago |
| 9:25 PM • | FinSMEs: 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 |
| 8:20 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: 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 |
| 7:55 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools after Trump called them “woke” |
| 7:40 PM • | Reuters: Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023 |
| 7:30 PM • | 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 |
| 7:15 PM • | Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary |
| 6:10 PM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.3B, below $9.37B est., and Cloud and AI revenue down 2.7% YoY to $6.3B, but reports an AI server backlog of $5B |
| 5:40 PM • | 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 |
| 5:00 PM • | 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 |
| 4:25 PM • | Brian Westover / PCMag: MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: the “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU mean beastly performance, but it has a five-year-old design and is $100+ pricier |
| 4:21 PM • | John Higgins / The Verge: Apple Studio Display XDR review: great reference picture modes, much improved camera, and 120Hz support on newer Macs, but expensive at $3,300 and only for Macs |
| 3:45 PM • | Financial Times: SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since November 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI ties grows; on March 9, it closed down 9.8% on Stargate delay reports |
| 3:30 PM • | 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 |
| 3:12 PM • | Kate Knibbs / Wired: Jay Graber steps down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; Bluesky names VC Toni Schneider as interim CEO |
| 2:53 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for March, until around September, when the company anticipates the new Siri will be ready |
| 2:35 PM • | Jake Angelo / Fortune: NBC News poll of 1,000 registered US voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics |
| 1:55 PM • | Aisha Down / The Guardian: The UK's AI drive to build data centers, touted since 2024 and featuring NScale and CoreWeave deals, is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting |
| 1:25 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI acquires Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems during development and is “trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500”, to fold into OpenAI Frontier |
| 12:41 PM • | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months |
| 12:15 PM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM |
| 11:55 AM • | Ahmed Yussuf / ABC: Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games |
| 11:50 AM • | Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: The US DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over US live events |
| 11:12 AM • | Jack Queen / Reuters: Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, saying the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights |
| 11:10 AM • | Reuters: Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent |
| 9:40 AM • | Financial Times: Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform and build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialing |
| 9:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Stablecoin payments startup KAST raised an $80M Series A; sources say the raise is at a $600M valuation and KAST expects a $100M annual revenue run rate in 2026 |
| 9:30 AM • | Charles Lamanna / Microsoft 365 Blog: Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data |
| 9:25 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot |
| 9:20 AM • | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: iPad Air (M4) review: M4 is powerful, iPadOS 26 improves multitasking, and the hardware is robust, but its screen could be better, no Face ID, and can be pricey |
| 9:15 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: iPhone 17e review: MagSafe, 256GB of base storage, and the camera are great, but no always-on display and 60Hz makes the iPhone 17 a better deal for $200 more |
| 9:07 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands its Women Drivers matching feature nationwide, including in major US markets like New York City, Philadelphia, and DC, amid mounting assault cases |
| 8:55 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build “AI-powered factories” |
| 8:35 AM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 7:25 AM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 6:25 AM • | Financial Times: South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10+ data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU |
| 6:00 AM • | Adam Satariano / New York Times: A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner from Australia who moved to London and started the data center company in 2024 amid the AI boom |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese AI circuit board maker Victory Giant plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as April that may raise $2B+; China's regulator approved the IPO last week |
| 5:00 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board |
| 4:15 AM • | Mary McDougall / Financial Times: A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50%+ of adults use generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used |
| 3:50 AM • | Bloomberg: OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more |
| 1:45 AM • | Aaron Levie / @levie: Advice to developers: build API-first and make software that agents want, as AI agents, not humans, will become the primary users of all software in the future |
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