The Rewrite
Google began testing AI-generated text in place of publisher headlines in search results. The same day, OpenAI announced it would merge its own browser into a desktop super-app. Two platforms, two approaches, one outcome: the publisher disappears.
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid
Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more
The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014
In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more
ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January
We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China; SMCI drops 30%+
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more
Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences
When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord
Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, letting developers send prompts from Telegram or Discord directly into a running session on their laptop.
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors like chipmaking and defense and automate them with AI
Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup
Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies'
The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge.
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors”
A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply …
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides “the foundation” for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high...
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers
The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations
A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024
India's Zetwerk is preparing to confidentially file draft papers for an initial public offering within the next one to two weeks …
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6
Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021
ByteDance Ltd. has agreed to sell games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, unloading a gaming studio it acquired …
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground
Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …
Cursor says Composer 2 is “frontier-level at coding” and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more
38.0 — 40.0 — 56.9 — These quality improvements come from our first continued pretraining run …
Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4
Roblox Corp. will take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games as part of a major overhaul of its advertising policies.
Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit
China's leading robot company, Unitree Robotics, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, moving a step closer …
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the start of 2026 and employed ~445 people as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025
Gemini Space Station Inc.'s workforce reduction has reached roughly 30% since the start of the year following layoffs …
Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program
Quick Take — Eligible participants will be able to settle trades in tokenized form during a pilot program operated by the Depository Trust Company.
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value in ~24 hours after investors punished the two Chinese tech leaders for unclear AI monetization plans
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. lost $66 billion of market value in roughly 24 hours, after the market punished …
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks
Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors …
Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system
Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission …
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus. — Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …
Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake
AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality
In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.LinkedIn:Stephanie Clifford.
Sources: Anthropic privately discussed issues like export controls with the House Homeland Security Committee on March 18, only briefly mentioning its DOD fight
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Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B
Coatue Management is leading the new financing that would total about $1 billion for the prediction-market platform, according to sources
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting …
OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers
The AI company will combine ChatGPT, Codex app and browser in an effort to focus and streamline its resources
Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round
Amazon has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed, a deal that could help the commerce …
Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including its new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed
Nvidia (NVDA.O) will sell 1 million of its graphics processing unit chips, along with a host of the AI giant's other offerings …
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses
In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace …
Sources: Google this week started privately consumer beta testing a dedicated Gemini app for macOS, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude
Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.'s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.
Google moved some employees working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects
Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot conversations
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI.
Oasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities like AI bots and automated tools, raised a $120M Series B, taking its total funding to $195M
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users
Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today's news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, generating $8M+ in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy
The man at the center of what's been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty.
Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025
Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers
The one-time ‘advanced flow’ includes 24 hours of cooling off time. … Google has revealed the “advanced flow” …
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and losing ~$80B on the endeavor, as Meta goes all in on AI
Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse.
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks
Meta Platforms Inc. will soon cut back on its use of third-party vendors to help with content moderation, relying instead …
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers
Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding
Google co-founder Sergey Brin raises his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC, which opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax
MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk”
DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models
Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI
Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default
Ofcom fines 4chan £520K for OSA violations, including £450K for not complying with age check requirements, and gives it until April 2 to implement age assurance
CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool that manages staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week
OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January
for the Python ecosystem — just as we have from the start.Boris /@boristane:damn@reach_vb:LETS GOOOO! So so psyched for this!! OpenAI really securing the future of Open Source! 🔥 [image]Jason Liu /@jx...
Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
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Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
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