The Inventor's Dilemma
OpenAI created Codex in 2021 — the first AI coding tool. Five years and $1B in revenue later, Wired reports it's "racing to catch up" with Anthropic's Claude Code. xAI's attempt has stalled entirely. The company that defined AI coding is now the one chasing it.
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
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house artificial intelligence chips by the end of 2027 …
US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; staff and contractors say an Iran-linked hacking group's logo appeared on login pages
Global outage affects U.S. medtech company; some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker is experiencing …
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
Follow Grace Kay … - XAI's Macrohard project has stalled amid leadership changes and a data project pause.
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions “inspired by” real writers without permission, after backlash
Now it will ‘reimagine’ the Expert Review feature, and allow experts a choice about participating in future AI plans.
Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark, combining its Societal Impacts, Red Team, and Economic Research teams
Amid a weekslong conflict with the Pentagon, resulting in a blacklist and a lawsuit, Anthropic is shaking up its C-suite and research initiatives.
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
Microsoft announced new details about the console at the GDC Festival of Gaming.
Sources: the foldable iPhone will feature an iPad-like interface for its iPad mini-sized inner display and have an outer screen the size of a small iPhone
Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
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
Permit is crucial to growth strategy of Europe's most valuable fintech — Revolut has secured a full banking licence from UK regulators …
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
Investigation focuses on money flowing through crypto platform to network backing terror groups, including Yemen's Houthi militants
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
Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial …
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
WhatsApp launched a new set of parent-supervised accounts for users under the age of 13 on Wednesday.
Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition yet; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024
Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal.
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
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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
Ripple has kicked off a share buyback that would value the company at $50 billion, cementing it as one of the most valuable digital-asset firms …
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw
Meta adds more scam detection tools: Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp device linking warnings, and advanced scam detection on Messenger
Users will be alerted about suspicious activities like unrecognized device linking and friend requests.
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”
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during …
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
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
Apple Music and TikTok have joined forces to launch a product that allows TikTok users to play full songs on the platform without having to leave the app.
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
Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration.
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
Amazon-owned Zoox plans to make its robotaxis available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas later this year, the two companies announced Wednesday.
Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets
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
W — hile Anthropic doesn't offer a productivity suite of apps like Google or Microsoft, it is expanding its integrations with Microsoft 365 applications.
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
The quickly growing company's revenues topped $1 billion last year. — Quince has a fresh infusion of cash.
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
Hopefully it's finally leaving the i9-14900K in the dust. … Intel hasn't made it easy to buy a flagship desktop chip.
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer
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
Mind Robotics is building factory robots, joining up with the electric-vehicle maker on training and testing
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 …
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
While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a few major hardware upgrades over recent years, the Galaxy S flagships have often felt …
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
Amazon.com Inc. raised €14.5 billion ($16.8 billion) in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency …
Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site
Sources: PayPay priced its US IPO at $16 per share, below its targeted price range of between $17 and $20; the IPO raised $880M, valuing the company at $10.7B
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
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission dismissed criticism from Amazon.com (AMZN.O) of Elon Musk's SpaceX plan …
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
WordPress's publishing software can now run entirely in the web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing software announced on Wednesday.
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
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
The newly launched Magic Layers feature dissects flat images into native objects, putting an end to the frustrating era of pixel-locked assets.
Axiamatic, which offers an “agentic control plane” to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer
Enterprise transformations are one of the biggest line items in corporate budgets—and one of the easiest ways to light money on fire.
Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata
Kai, which is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform, raised $125M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners
The year-old firm joins a surge of new ventures cashing in on booming investor demand for smart cyber tools — Kai, an artificial intelligence …
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
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
Megacap companies previously out of favour now seen as ‘safety assets’ — Investors have sought shelter from the turmoil …
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
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
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
“The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless,” Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday
Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage
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
Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — Jack O'Hara has seen a hospital shut down. — It happens via blurry paperwork and running out of time.
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.
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
Starting on March 19th, Fortnite players will get fewer V-bucks for their money. … For instance, players can currently …
How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few components from China as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon
The country has prioritized self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon, though weaning itself fully off cheaper Chinese components is difficult.
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 …
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
30% of European unicorns may have lost their billion-dollar status, but not Alan.
Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M
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
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution? — Sam Altman sits with his legs pretzeled in an office chair, staring deeply into the ceiling.
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 …
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 …
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
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
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
Nintendo Co. shares gained as much as 10.5% in their steepest climb since April as the surprise success …
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
Anduril Industries Inc. is set to double the size of its space unit with the acquisition of national security company ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. …
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 …
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
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.
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
Fully homomorphic encryption chip speeds operations 5,000-fold — Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor editor. — SUMMARYLinkedIn:Samuel K. Moore.Forums:Hacker News,r/technews, andSlashd...
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
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
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
Pokémon Go was the world's first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic …Forums:r/TheSilphRoadForums:r/TheSilphRoad:MIT Technology Review: How Pokémon Go is giving ...
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.
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels
The MacBook Neo looks and feels like it's expensive. That's the magic. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware …
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 …
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%; …
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.
Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings
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
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
Polymarket is enlisting firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. to help police its sports contracts as prediction markets face intense scrutiny over insider trading.
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 …
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation”
YouTube is expanding a tool designed to detect impersonations to a select group of government officials, political candidates and journalists.
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.
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
Thinking Machines Lab signs a deal with Nvidia to deploy 1GW+ of Vera Rubin chips; Nvidia makes a “significant” investment in Thinking Machines Lab
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 …
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.
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
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%+
Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results …
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
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
The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …
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
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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
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
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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
Prepares major gaming advancements that lay foundations for the next XboxLaurent Giret /Thurrott:Microsoft to Make New ‘Xbox Mode’ Available on All Windows 11 PCs Next MonthMichael Kan /PCMag:Microsof...