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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/UnderReportedNews
| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 — Flink SE raised funds in a round that values the firm at $900 million, in a sign that the grocery delivery startup has stabilized …
More: Tech.eu, Prosus, Tech Funding News, and Sifted
| 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: @stephenkb and @tcarmody
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it was “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS — Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools| Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub — Iran's targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M — Guild.ai, a startup helping companies develop AI agents, has raised $44 million in a seed and Series A and is now valued at $300 million … | 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 …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors — The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives| Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times: |
Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI — Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
More: Artforum. LinkedIn: Mary Okin and James Grossman
Mastodon: @acdha@thepit.social and @kfitz@hcommons.social
| 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
X: @josephpolitano, @rohanpaul_ai, @joshkale, @krishnanrohit, @coron_samuel, @nikicaga, @dkthomp, @dorialexander, @samanthaladuc, and @josephpolitano. Bluesky: @prietschka
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| 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
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More: The Block, CoinDesk, Raw Story, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, StrictlyVC, 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: @artisny, @renrut-mas, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| 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: Gizmodo, 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.Sponsor Posts
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