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Mar 31

Major Bloomberg

Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected

Mar 31

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect

Mar 31

Major Kris Holt / Engadget

Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months

Mar 31

Top Story Guru Baran / Cyber Security News

Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Reportedly Leaked Via Their npm Registry

Mar 31

Major Karissa Bell / Engadget

Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, with swappable nosepads and compatibility with more prescription lenses, on sale April 14

Mar 31

Major Juro Osawa / The Information

Alibaba's new Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model, which processes text, audio, images, and video, is proprietary, marking a shift away from its open-source strategy

Mar 31

Major Niko Gallogly / New York Times

Wearable maker Whoop raised $575M led by Collaborative Fund at a $10.1B valuation and says it hit $1B in ARR by 2025's end; 60% of its 2025 sales were non-US

Mar 30

Major Axios

Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; US officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI

Mar 30

Major Eric Newcomer / Newcomer

Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030

Mar 30

Major Lola Murti / CNBC

Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9%

Mar 30

Major Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac

Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it there; Apple does not plan an imminent launch as it lacks regulatory approval

Mar 30

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations

Mar 30

Major Kara Scannell / CNN

US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws

Mar 30

Major Sean Endicott / Windows Central

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback"

Mar 30

Major New York Times

Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns

Mar 30

Major Bethan Staton / Financial Times

AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications

Mar 30

Major Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total

Mar 30

Major Bloomberg

DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app

Mar 30

Major Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic

An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more

Mar 30

Major Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts

Mar 30

Major Wency Chen / South China Morning Post

Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reports 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$87M and data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.9M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO

Mar 30

Major Aarian Marshall / Wired

Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law

Mar 30

Major Financial Times

Some UK defense tech startups consider relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some executives say the UK sector is at a "standstill"

Mar 30

Major Business Insider

Some iOS developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause

Mar 29

Major Evelyn Cheng / CNBC

Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments

Mar 29

Major Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare

Qualified Health, which helps health systems evaluate and adopt AI tools, raised a $125M Series B led by NEA at a valuation of between $500M and $1B

Mar 28

Major Wall Street Journal

A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand

Mar 28

Major Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected

Mar 28

Major Grace Kay / Business Insider

Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator

Mar 28

Major Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal

A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin

Mar 28

Newcomer

A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more

Mar 28

Reuters

Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya raised $2.5B in a private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix's Solidigm, Cisco, and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production

Mar 28

Major Brendan Bordelon / Politico

Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label

Mar 27

Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land

Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images

Mar 27

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters

NeurIPS reverses a policy change that would have banned papers from researchers at any entity under US sanctions, after backlash from Chinese researchers

Mar 27

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels

Mar 27

Bloomberg

Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+

Mar 27

Major Ari Levy / CNBC

Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7%

Mar 27

Bloomberg

Filing: Kalshi has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, which would make the platform more appealing to institutional investors

Mar 27

Financial Times

Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the company

Mar 27

Anniek Bao / CNBC

China's broadening Manus review raises doubts about the "Singapore-washing" model; sources: Meta moved 100+ Manus employees to Singapore in early March

Mar 27

Major Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants

Mar 27

Major Beatrice Nolan / Fortune

Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a "step change" in performance after a draft blog in an unsecured data store revealed the Claude Mythos model

Mar 27

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab

Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks

Mar 27

Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph

Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M

Mar 27

Reuters

Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company over alleged Chinese military ties

Mar 27

Major Wall Street Journal

SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investors in Musk's other companies

Mar 27

Major Tyler Katzenberger / Politico

Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more

Mar 26

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company

Mar 26

Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware

Mar 26

Major Todd Spangler / Variety

Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99

Mar 26

Wall Street Journal

Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral

Mar 26

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available

Mar 26

Major Mike Scarcella / Reuters

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X

Mar 26

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios

Mar 26

Top Story Emma Roth / The Verge

Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies"

Mar 26

Major MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC

Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for products sold globally

Mar 26

Lucinda Shen / Axios

Cents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024

Mar 26

Robert Hart / The Verge

The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps

Mar 26

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B

Mar 26

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool that suggests replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more

Mar 26

Major Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times

Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software

Mar 26

Major Eliza Gkritsi / Politico

The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchat, including whether it does enough to assess its users' ages

Mar 26

Paresh Dave / Wired

Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril's manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims "inaccurate"

Mar 26

Major Financial Times

OpenAI shelves its erotic chatbot "indefinitely" as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after technical issues as well as staff and investor concerns

Mar 26

Haripriya Suresh / Reuters

Revolut says it aims to base ~40% of its global workforce in India by the end of 2026, increasing its local headcount to 5,500; Revolut has 12K staff globally

Mar 26

Sebastian Mallaby / Wall Street Journal

Book excerpt: how Google acquired DeepMind for $650M in 2014, beating Facebook to the deal; Mustafa Suleyman used poker-style bluffing to secure a safety board

Mar 26

Major Bloomberg

Pony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to ~$90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to ~$76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, its first profitable quarter ever

Mar 26

Aditya Kalra / Reuters

Google's top India counsel Bijoya Roy resigned after 16 months to start a new venture, a high-profile exit in a market where it faces regulatory issues

Mar 26

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India

Mar 26

Michael Kan / PCMag

The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle ~$62M worth of export-controlled A100 and H100 Nvidia chips into China

Mar 26

Zijing Wu / Financial Times

OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month

Mar 26

Wall Street Journal

Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a $25B pre-money valuation of; JPMorgan is in talks to participate

Mar 25

Major Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle

Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May