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| Helen Vogelsong-Donahue / Wired: |
The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage — From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.
More: TheGamer, nextpit, Polygon.com, and Android Headlines
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more — GDC in San Francisco this week was full of job-seekers, co-development studios and AI — Hi everyone.| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month — ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2., due to a string of copyright disputes …
More: PCMag, Reuters, Engadget, The Decoder, Tech in Asia, Gizmodo, and MakeUseOf. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| New York Times: |
Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication — A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of the war in Iran.
More: Digital Journal, Cyabra, and Cyabra
| Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance: |
Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production — It's not just oil. — The near-standstill in the Strait of Hormuz is raising fears of a price surge for commodities used …
More: Bloomberg, The Circuit, Tom's Hardware, and Dow Jones Newswires
| SemiAnalysis: |
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification — TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner — Ivan Chiam, Myron Xie, Ray Wang, and 3 others
More: The Chosun Daily, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, Taipei Times, The Decoder, and Benzinga. LinkedIn: Bill Conrades
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more — Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago — Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive … | Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US — After a yearslong slump, there's now a real-estate frenzy. 'It's just skyrocketed,' says one house hunter.| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M — Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, the companies announced on Wednesday.
More: Zendesk, Pulse 2.0, The AI Economy, Verdict, The Next Web, Futurum, Constellation Research, The Information, and InfoQ. LinkedIn: Deon Nicholas
| Gautam Mukunda / Bloomberg: |
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles — Whatever you think about whether artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it has already mastered one corporate skill: hogging the credit.
More: TechCrunch and Resume.org
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more — Nvidia's graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence …
More: Forbes, Blockonomi, Tech Startups, GeneMunster.com, and COMPAL ELECTRONICS,INC.. X: @munster_gene
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war — A new generation of investors doesn't want to wait for the traditional market open — While traditional energy investors spent …
More: The Coin Republic, Fortune, and Wu Blockchain
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran — An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran.| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
| Karandeep Singh Oberoi / Android Police: |
Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs — Can you imagine a world where WhatsApp stops offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE)? That's not happening, but a different Meta-owned company …
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| American Medical Association: |
A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation — CHICAGO — New research from the American Medical Association's Center for Digital Health and AI shows that physicians' adoption …
More: American Medical Association, Garry's List, Forbes, and HIT Consultant
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