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March 10, 2026, 8:05 PM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
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.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
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  —  Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’  —  Amazon's ecommerce business …
Financial Times:
Thinking Machines Lab signs a deal with Nvidia to deploy 1GW+ of Vera Rubin chips; Nvidia makes a “significant” investment in Thinking Machines Lab  —  Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round  —  Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1bn for his new start-up in Europe's largest ever seed funding round.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
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 …
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, vs. $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% to $8.9B, vs. $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ after hours  —  Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results that surpassed Wall Street projections …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
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 …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
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  —  Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
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.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After 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 …
Washington Post:
Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer  —  The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
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 …
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to 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.
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce  —  This  TheThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click.
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
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.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business  —  The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation  —  Rhoda uses widely available internet video to train industrial robots for a variety of conditions  —  A new AI startup is betting …

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