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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: Decrypt, The Block, Blockchain.News, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, and CryptoPotato
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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Binance files a New York defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iran-linked transactions — The situation adds pressure to Binance, which is already operating under a compliance monitor following its $4.3 billion anti-money laundering …
More: Binance Blog, The Block, The Crypto Times, Crypto Briefing, and Talking Biz News
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Meta disables 150K+ accounts as the Royal Thai Police, the FBI, the US DOJ, and others disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia and arrest 21 individuals — Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts tied to Southeast Asia-based cyber scam centers. — The global crackdown led to 21 arrests, the company said.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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.| 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, Help Net Security, Engadget, Implicator.ai, and BBC
| CNN: |
CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to “teen” personas 50%+ of the time; only Claude consistently refused — Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration.
More: The Verge, The Guardian, and Center for Countering …
Bluesky: @caramartin.ca, @counterhate.com, @counterhate.com, and @parismarx.com. Forums: r/technology
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition yet; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 — Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal.
More: wiz.io, The Keyword, CRN, CTech, Business Insider, and Telecompaper
X: @dougleone, @samhaselby, @mdubowitz, @rseroter, @imposecost, @indexventures, @newsfromgoogle, @googlecloud, @thomasortk, @johnhultquist, and @wiz_io. LinkedIn: Francis deSouza
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major upgrades, and no Qi2 charging magnets — While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a few major hardware upgrades over recent years, the Galaxy S flagships …
More: Samsung Newsroom, HotHardware, Notebookcheck, SamMobile, Android Headlines, Android Authority, and Digit
| 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: Video Games Chronicle, Nintendo Life, My Nintendo News, IGN, TechRadar, T3, and The Japan Times
| 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 …
More: MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The Information, Tech in Asia, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, and Semafor. Bluesky: @davelee.me
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Docs and a source: a foreign hacker compromised the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in 2023; the FBI says the “cyber incident” was “an isolated one” — A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during …
More: Modern Diplomacy. Bluesky: @theactualbrian, @tommasz, and @hatr
Forums: r/Epstein, r/news, and r/politics
| 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| 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.| 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.
More: Thurrott, Google Help Center, Android Authority, Android Central, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, Press Trust of India, Livemint, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Android Police, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Phandroid, and Chrome Unboxed
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in summer 2026 and in LA by mid-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.| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says it will use a platform built by Palantir and TWG AI to help 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.
More: Fortune, Unchained, Business Wire, Event Horizon, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, Blockhead, Pulse 2.0, Motley Fool, Agence France-Presse, CoinMarketCap Academy, The Defiant, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Merkle News, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, and Crypto Briefing
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet — Hopefully it's finally leaving the i9-14900K in the dust. … Intel hasn't made it easy to buy a flagship desktop chip.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon, which could help boost weekly active users, now at ~920M, short of the 1B goal it had targeted in 2025 — 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, Digit, Tech in Asia, Blockonomi, and Digital Trends. X: @steph_palazzolo
| Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country — “The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless,” Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday
More: Hypebot, Music Ally, Los Angeles Times, and Billboard
| Bloomberg: |
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.
More: The Crypto Times, Travel And Tour World, Crypto Briefing, and Fortune
| Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Nebius says Nvidia plans to invest $2B in the startup as it plans to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW+ of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 — Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing the $60.9B made 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.| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as its head of industrial compute and now 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.| Bloomberg: |
Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house artificial intelligence chips by the end of 2027 …
More: CNBC, Reuters, Meta, Wired, and Meta Newsroom
| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
TikTok partners with Apple to let Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the TikTok app, and use a Listening Party feature, in the coming weeks — Apple Music and TikTok have joined forces to launch a product that allows TikTok users to play full songs on the platform without having to leave the app.| Financial Times: |
Investors flee to Magnificent Seven stocks due to the US-led war in Iran; tech is up 1.5% from February 27, the only S&P 500 sector to rise since the strikes — Megacap companies previously out of favour now seen as ‘safety assets’ — Investors have sought shelter from the turmoil …
More: Motley Fool
| Maria Varenikova / New York Times: |
How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few components from China as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon — The country has prioritized self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon, though weaning itself fully off cheaper Chinese components is difficult.
More: Yahoo Finance and Moneycontrol
X: @simoneledeen, @sariarhohavren, @ulrichspeck, @olegkostour, @euan_macdonald, and @noahpinion. Mastodon: @rikefranke@bagarrosphere.fr
| Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: |
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling startup 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 … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., net income up 27% YoY to $3.72B, and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B; ORCL jumps 10%+ — Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results …
More: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Morningstar, Associated Press, Oracle, Blockonomi, Financial Times, The Information, Forbes, Axios, Investor's Business Daily, Proactive, Constellation Research, Benzinga, and Implicator.ai
X: @edzitron, @the_ai_investor, @stocksavvyshay, @edludlow, @economyapp, @thetranscript_, @anissagardizy8, @anissagardizy8, @the_ai_investor, and @zerohedge
Forums: r/technology and r/wallstreetbets
| Barbara Booth / CNBC: |
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws — New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content … Sponsor Posts
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