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March 11, 2026, 4:20 AM
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After social media 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: 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 …
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 …
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment  —  Applied Materials (AMAT.O) said on Tuesday it has partnered with memory chip companies Micron Technology (MU.O) and SK Hynix …
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.
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
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 …
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option  —  In a slight capitulation to those who don't want AI infused into their everyday apps …
The Economic Times:
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages  —  Lossfunk, an AI lab founded by Paras Chopra, created a prompting method that helps large language models produce Tulu text without prior training.

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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney promotes Thomas Mazloum to chairman of its parks, cruises, and consumer products division, succeeding Josh D'Amaro, who is set to become CEO on March 18

Maer Roshan / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview, Harvey Weinstein says prison life is “hell”, Disney cut off his insurance and pays a $60K/year pension, he will be “proven innocent”, and more

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Canal+ says it will “roll out a major evolution of the Canal+ App” using OpenAI's tech to “power content search and discovery”, and signs a Google Cloud AI deal

More News

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
Martin Matishak / The Record:
The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025
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

Earlier Picks

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
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation”
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
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
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
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
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
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