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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran — The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker …
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LinkedIn: Kim Nash and Jessica Dabbs
Forums: Hacker News, r/PrepperIntel, r/technews, r/cybersecurity, r/politics, r/news, r/BMET, r/technology, r/worldnews, r/StockMarket, and Lobsters
| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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X: @birdabo, @tukifromkl, @pawelhuryn, and @ai_for_success. LinkedIn: Jaspreet Singh. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/technology
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models — The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
More: Implicator.ai, NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA, Constellation Research, NVIDIA Nemotron, Benzinga, Motley Fool, InfoWorld, The Indian Express, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Deep View, and Cloudflare
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LinkedIn: Mostofa Patwary, Jiantao Jiao, and Samuel G. Rodriques
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/nvidia
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
More: Apple Support, Apple Support, BleepingComputer, MacRumors, Forbes, Android Headlines, Digit, OS X Daily, Neowin, CyberInsider, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
More: Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Windows Central, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, and On my Om
X: @stalman, @mariohachemer, @benbajarin, @2shar, @eswarpr, @om, @stevesi, @sytelus, @edandersen, @stevesi, @magicsilicon, @stevesi, @jamesmcdaniel, @realchrisebert, @counternotions, @stevesi, and @aakashgupta. Bluesky: @stroughtonsmith …. Forums: Hacker News
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ — Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters …
More: Implicator.ai, Financial Times, and Spyglass
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side … | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US — A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
More: New York Times, The Verge, Fortune, Bloomberg, CNET, Axios, Healthcare Dive, The Deep View, and Microsoft AI. X: @mustafasuleyman
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026 — Uber intends to start offering the service through a licensed taxi partner in Japan — Uber Technologies, Nissan Motor …
More: Silicon Republic, Benzinga, Engadget, Quartz, The Next Web, Automotive World, Nikkei Asia, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Reuters, Kyodo News, and CBT News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others — India is drafting a new round of smartphone manufacturing incentives that would link government subsidies to exports and deeper use …
More: The Hans India, Reuters, Firstpost, Digit, Tech in Asia, and TechWire Asia
| Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils
More: Engadget, The Register, GeekWire, Google Fiber Blog, Light Reading, TelecomTV, and PCMag
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project — Follow Grace Kay … - XAI's Macrohard project has stalled amid leadership changes and a data project pause.
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 — Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board. It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services were 19% each — Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines — At a new 12,000 square metre facility in Wuhan …
X: @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, and @nicholasdwright
| Financial Times: |
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside $500M more for restructuring, taking its FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI coding tools — Database group sets aside an additional $500mn for restructuring costs — Oracle has stepped up preparations to cut jobs …
More: The Economic Times, CIO.com, and Wall Street Journal
| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs — Software group sold debt at significant premium in borrowing costs in sign of Wall Street jitters over AI disruption
More: Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg
| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?
More: PYMNTS.com and Bloomberg
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that earned $100K+ in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users in February — The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago. — Valve has revealed that 5,863 games released on Steam earned over $100,000 in 2025.
More: International Business Times, Gamereactor UK, and 80 Level
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
More: Menlo Ventures
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles — Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They're also among the most difficult to predict.
More: The Keyword, Google Research, Times Of AI, and Heatmap News
| The Verge: |
Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027 — Microsoft announced new details about the console at the GDC Festival of Gaming.
More: Xbox Wire, IGN, Windows Blog, T3, PC Gamer, GamingBolt, Gameranx, WinBuzzer, Screen Rant, Windows Central, PlayStation LifeStyle, Digit, Game Developer, Tech Times, Gizchina, KitGuru, DigiTimes, Push Square, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Press Start, Gamereactor UK, Engadget, and Windows Latest
LinkedIn: Benoit Fouillet and Jack Huynh
Forums: r/GearsOfWar, r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/XboxSeriesXlS, and r/xbox
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital — Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies' procurement processes, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.
More: ORO Labs and SiliconANGLE
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ — Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app. First announced in January …
More: Engadget, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, and The Walt Disney Company. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Bloomberg: |
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source — Swedish startup Lovable has hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue, as companies and users flock to artificial intelligence tools …
More: Tech in Asia
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more — Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes …
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