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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.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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.
More: Anthropic, Engadget, Implicator.ai, and Tech in Asia
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a “cyber incident” — A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during … | Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: The Block and Crypto Briefing
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| Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: |
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.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B, above $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ pre-market — Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
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.| 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 … | Alice French / Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: My Nintendo News, IGN, TechRadar, and T3
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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.
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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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw — Chinese authorities moved to restrict state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he 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.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in late 2026 and expanding to LA in 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.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, 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.
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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs — Summary — Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computing on encrypted data without decryption, but it's currently slow on standard CPUs and GPUs.
More: Tom's Hardware and Yahoo Finance
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year — OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort.
More: The Economic Times, Reuters, Blockonomi, Digital Trends, Digit, and Tech in Asia. X: @steph_palazzolo
| Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: |
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company 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. … | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
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.
More: Sifted, Bloomberg, The Next Web, and Tech Funding News
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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 … | Bloomberg: |
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| TrendForce: |
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%; …
More: Digital Trends, PC Gamer, DigiTimes, and Ming-Chi Kuo
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots — Pokémon Go was the world's first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic … | Washington Post: |
Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is probing claims that 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: The Information
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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