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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract — Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
More: The Information, Business Insider, The Economic Times, and The Register
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation — From AI weapons to Game Boys, defence tech billionaire is in talks to raise funds for new gaming venture ModRetro
Bluesky: @tcarmody and @stephenkb
| Business Insider: |
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 — - Tech industries are losing their strength. — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions. — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.
More: Bureau of Labor Statistics, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Briefing, and New York Times
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow — There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket. — Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …
More: Gizmodo, NextDraft, Mediaite, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, The Guardian, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @wildebees, @seanokane, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, and @bobbyallyn
Forums: r/NPR and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, StrictlyVC, Raw Story, The Crypto Times, Crypto Briefing, and Deseret News. LinkedIn: Dave Michaels
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Simile, which offers “agentic twins” modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup — AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research
LinkedIn: Mike Volpi, Sri Narasimhan, Joon Sung Park, and Allegra Pedretti
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @artisny, and @renrut-mas
| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir — NEW YORK CITY — Alex Bores had known for a while that a political operation called Leading the Future, funded … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B — Weapons maker Anduril expects to roughly double revenue this year to about $4.3 billion, while its operating loss would rise … | Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to “new conflicts” between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary — China's commerce ministry on Saturday raised the possibility of another global semiconductor supply chain crisis due to “new conflicts” …
More: Caixin Global and Tech in Asia
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education — Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.
X: @cecianasta and @cecianasta
LinkedIn: Bob Holtzman, Evan Zirschky, and Cecilia D'Anastasio. Bluesky: @dannygroner. Forums: r/TrueReddit
| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse — Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech — Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached … | Nikkei Asia: |
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware — TOKYO — China's smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories …
More: 36Kr, Yicai Global, Light Reading, Gizmochina, Gizmochina, PhoneArena, and Android Headlines
| The Information: |
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B — Online retailer Quince is in talks with investors to raise a funding round that would value the company at above $10 billion after the investment … | Financial Times: |
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech — Institutional clients increasingly want so-called parallel funds that exclude certain assets — US investors are increasingly … | Financial Times: |
A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow “any lawful” use by the government of their models — The Trump administration has drawn up tight rules for civilian artificial intelligence contracts that would require AI companies … Sponsor Posts
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