| 11:35 PM • | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: The Trump administration settles Murthy v. Missouri from 2022, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from having social media companies suppress speech |
| 11:25 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones over the coming years |
| 10:40 PM • | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Thailand-based Amity, which provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D, as it plans for an IPO in 2027 |
| 10:10 PM • | Neal Stephenson / Graphomane: Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users |
| 9:05 PM • | Reuters: Sources: some Sora team employees were surprised by OpenAI's move to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog post about Sora safety standards |
| 8:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Source: Meta's rollout of Meta Ray-Ban Display in the EU has been hampered by regulations on AI features and removable batteries, as well as supply constraints |
| 8:25 PM • | The Information: Source: SpaceX is aiming to file its IPO prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, and could try to raise $75B+, up from a previous $50B estimate |
| 8:20 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, which lets artists review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them |
| 8:10 PM • | Reuters: SK Hynix submits a confidential filing to the US SEC for a potential listing of American Depositary Receipts in 2026; a source says SK could raise up to $14B |
| 7:40 PM • | Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including more affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a “buy now” button on Facebook ads |
| 7:20 PM • | Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, a former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp and who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws |
| 6:45 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service currently used by Adobe, and acquires security startups Antimatter and SiftD |
| 6:40 PM • | Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield |
| 6:35 PM • | Morgan Chittum / CNBC: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to “north of $120B” |
| 6:20 PM • | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B+ in 2025, including ~$15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip, sold at a ~50% gross profit |
| 5:35 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's three actions toward Anthropic are “troubling” and that they look “like an attempt to cripple Anthropic” |
| 5:15 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney ends its three-year OpenAI licensing deal, signed in December 2025, in which it agreed to invest $1B in OpenAI and license 200+ of its characters to Sora |
| 5:12 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: A New Mexico jury finds Meta violated the state's unfair practices act by not safeguarding its apps from child predators; Meta must pay $375M in civil damages |
| 5:10 PM • | VideoCardz.com: Arm says its AGI CPU offers up to 136 Arm Neoverse V3 cores, 6GB/s of memory bandwidth per core, and more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 systems |
| 4:25 PM • | The Information: Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale |
| 4:00 PM • | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says it will discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT |
| 3:55 PM • | Thomas Claburn / The Register: Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code |
| 3:30 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amazon last week acquired NYC-based Fauna Robotics, which is building a human-like, 42"-tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance |
| 3:20 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Baltimore sues xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices by marketing Grok as generally safe |
| 3:15 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens |
| 3:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI nears a deal to raise ~$10B from Abu Dhabi's MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing its latest funding round to ~$120B at a $730B valuation |
| 3:02 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's Siri reboot plans include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and “Ask Siri” and “Write with Siri” features |
| 2:20 PM • | David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic announces an “auto mode” that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive commands like mass file deletion |
| 1:55 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget |
| 1:40 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B led by Madrona and Premji |
| 1:30 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, eight new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more |
| 1:12 PM • | Financial Times: Arm unveils AGI CPU, its own AI chip, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI are early clients; ARM jumps 10%+ |
| 1:00 PM • | CoinDesk: Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield |
| 12:25 PM • | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its “AI for Work” initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen |
| 12:10 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its “open infrastructure” from infotainment to non-safety internal systems |
| 12:05 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives |
| 11:55 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada |
| 11:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW of capacity, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away |
| 11:40 AM • | Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays |
| 11:35 AM • | Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML |
| 11:20 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation |
| 10:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs, saying it is “spending significantly more” than it is making and that the layoffs and $500M in savings put it “in a more stable place” |
| 10:40 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization |
| 10:15 AM • | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin |
| 9:25 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 |
| 9:10 AM • | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch |
| 9:01 AM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain |
| 8:12 AM • | Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ |
| 7:15 AM • | Anthony Halpin / Bloomberg: Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX |
| 7:00 AM • | Financial Times: How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds |
| 6:41 AM • | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month |
| 6:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand |
| 6:00 AM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 |
| 5:45 AM • | Financial Times: European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable |
| 5:35 AM • | Elena Vardon / Wall Street Journal: London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank |
| 4:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM |
| 3:50 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more |
| 2:05 AM • | James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens |
| 1:20 AM • | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment |
| 1:10 AM • | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US |
| 12:45 AM • | Reuters: Chinese media: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils the XuanTie C950, a 5nm, 3.2 GHz server chip, and claims it is “the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world” |
| 12:05 AM • | Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: Tokyo-based Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot and a shift from its corporate focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies |
| 11:30 PM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital |
| 11:15 PM • | David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits $30B more to OpenAI |
| 10:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing tens of billions in startups and key customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips |
| 9:25 PM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024 |
| 9:05 PM • | Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News: The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries |
| 8:00 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M |
| 7:15 PM • | Morgan Lee / Associated Press: A jury begins deliberations in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit over child safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments, following six weeks of testimony |
| 7:00 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft hires a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 |
| 6:35 PM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers |
| 6:25 PM • | TechCrunch: A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” |
| 6:15 PM • | Blake Stimac / CNET: Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, available in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers |
| 5:05 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users |
| 5:00 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M |
| 4:00 PM • | Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi announces new tech guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, coaches, officials, and others from trading in politics and sports markets |
| 2:35 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff |
| 2:30 PM • | New York Times: The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $1T+ to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M |
| 2:20 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Doc: Kalshi's and Polymarket's CEOs are investing in an upcoming VC, led by two early Kalshi staff, that's raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups |
| 1:45 PM • | Lex Fridman: Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, China, data centers in space, the future of coding, and more |
| 1:25 PM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events where the user has a position of authority or influence |
| 1:01 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8 to 12 as a free online event for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 for developers and students |
| 1:00 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in Maps, letting retailers and brands bid for ad slots against search queries, to be announced as soon as in March |
| 12:40 PM • | Reuters: Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A |
| 12:25 PM • | Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal: Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed |
| 12:15 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A |
| 12:00 PM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more |
| 11:35 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion, and Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair |
| 10:10 AM • | Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands |
| 9:50 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA |
| 9:00 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders |
| 8:50 AM • | Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms |
| 8:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: EA is selling a $15B debt package to fund its $55B take-private deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings |
| 8:30 AM • | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 |
| 8:15 AM • | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March |
| 8:10 AM • | Nino Paoli / Bloomberg: AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure |
| 7:45 AM • | Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket |
| 7:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sony is nearing an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL for ~$1B, to be announced as soon as in March |
| 7:15 AM • | Financial Times: Addison Lee CEO Liam Griffin says London cab drivers should be protected via “a minimum price” on Waymo's and Tesla's robotaxis to prevent “predatory pricing” |
| 7:00 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: NYC-based Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised $110M led by Balderton at a $1B valuation |
| 6:25 AM • | Martin Sandbu / Financial Times: The EC's EU Inc. proposal is a missed opportunity, leaving national courts to interpret corporate rules, and it seems like Brussels has pre-emptively aimed low |
| 6:05 AM • | Bloomberg: South Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K AMD MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Singapore-based Grab agrees to buy Delivery Hero's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600M in cash, its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian home market |
| 5:25 AM • | Zack Abrams / The Block: Indian media: Indian police arrest two CoinDCX co-founders, after a complainant alleged investment fraud tied to the exchange; CoinDCX calls the claims “false” |
| 5:00 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: A profile of AWS following its 20th anniversary, covering its creation, ability to lead the market it created, response to the ChatGPT disruption, and AI bets |
| 4:30 AM • | Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Inside Amazon's plan to bring fast delivery to rural America and reduce its reliance on USPS; Amazon aims to have 200 rural delivery hubs serving 13K zip codes |
| 4:05 AM • | Laila Kearney / Reuters: Google signs “demand response” deals with five US electric utilities for up to 1GW in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid periods |
| 3:50 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric |
| 1:15 AM • | Robert Booth / The Guardian: Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA |
| 12:40 AM • | Mike Sorrentino / CNET: Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions |
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