|
March 17, 2026, 11:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects its flagship AI chips to help generate $1T+ in sales through 2027, after previously forecasting $500B in sales through 2026 — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, addressing crowds at the company's biggest annual event, unveiled a variety …
More: New York Times, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, The Information, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Mobile World Live, Newser, The Indian Express, Investing.com, Proactiveinvestors UK, The Daily Upside, Blockonomi, Reuters, CNBC, Benzinga, Axios, Semafor, The Japan Times, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, CNBC, Wccftech, and DatacenterDynamics
X: @sawyermerritt, @benbajarin, @firstadopter, @munster_gene, @zerohedge, @firstadopter, @realsimpleariel, @zerohedge, @edludlow, @ns123abc, @zerohedge, @futurenvesting, @divestech, @munster_gene, @wallstengine, @dylan522p, @zephyr_z9, @munster_gene, @mweinbach, @firstadopter, @ryanshrout, @jimcramer, @benbajarin, and @firstadopter
LinkedIn: Amber Jackson, Isabelle Bousquette, and Emil Protalinski
| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Nvidia announces the Nvidia Groq 3 LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 Groq 3 LPUs, 128GB of SRAM, and 40 PBps SRAM bandwidth, available in H2 2026 — Nvidia announced Monday at GTC 2026 that its new Groq-based inference server rack will be available alongside the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack … | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
| Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
More: CNBC, The Independent, Benzinga, Nvidia Newsroom, Payload, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, and Tom's Hardware
X: @ns123abc and @sawyermerritt
| Richard Leadbetter / Digital Foundry: |
Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to video game frames, coming this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs — At its GTC 2026 event, Nvidia has revealed the next generation of DLSS. DLSS 5 isn't a frame-rate, frame generation or performance enhancing technology.
More: NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, Digital Foundry on YouTube, The Economic Times, Club386, Engadget, VideoCardz.com, Game World Observer, The Verge, Newsweek, Tech Times, Pure Xbox, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, Screen Rant, Mirror, GamingBolt, WinBuzzer, Tech4Gamers, PC Guide, Eurogamer.net, Digit, Gameranx, TheSixthAxis, GAMINGbible, TechEBlog, Dark Horizons, TechCrunch, Push Square, TechSpot, VideoCardz.com, The Verge, and VideoCardz.com
X: @bethesdastudios, @nvidiageforce, @synthpotato, @gamersnexus, @geforce_jacobf, @ctnzr, @gothalion, @ryanshrout, @amongusgame, @tomwarren, @mischiefsyt, @tomwarren, @modernvintageg, @bilawalsidhu, @hardwarecanucks, @tomwarren, @rohankarmoon, @bengeskin, @tomwarren, @frankl1trempl1, @synthpotato, @synthpotato, @mweinbach, @geforce_jacobf, @videotechuk_, and @mrbenb
Bluesky: @dannyodwyer, @aegies, @dark1x, @papapishu, @mickeytheretriever, @papapishu, @jamesbjones.com, @seamoosi, and @digitalfoundry
Forums: Hacker News, r/GamersMY, r/consoles, r/gamedev, r/CrimsonDesert, r/GraphicsProgramming, r/Games, r/CriticalDrinker, r/aiwars, r/ArtistHate, r/unrealengine, r/assassinscreed, r/China_irl, r/TESVI, r/PHGamers, r/PHGamers, r/starcitizen, r/accelerate, r/gaming, r/residentevil, r/GeForceNOW, r/IndoGamer, r/NoSodiumStarfield, r/gamesEcultura, r/digitalfoundry, r/indotech, r/pcmasterraceFR, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/aiwars, r/linux_gaming, r/pcgaming, r/hardware, r/singularity, r/nvidia, and r/pcgaming
| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material — The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
More: NVIDIA, Kotaku, How-To Geek, Moneycontrol, Video Games Chronicle, The Shortcut, Defector, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, Digital Trends, Creative Bloq, indy100, mxdwn Games, GameRevolution, XDA Developers, Tech in Asia, Hindustan Times, Windows Central, and Windows Central
Forums: r/PiratedGames, r/pcmasterrace, r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/MauLer, r/NVDA_Stock, r/technology, and r/Games
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
In an all-hands, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo described a strategy shift to refocus on coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests” — A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by ‘side quests’ as the company plans shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses
More: PCMag, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, The Decoder, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia, Business Today, Benzinga, Digit, The Deep View, The Information, and Implicator.ai
X: @andrewcurran_, @om, @webaficionado, @thestalwart, @buccocapital, @tristan, @aakashgupta, @jyarow, @mattzeitlin, @mikeisaac, @jakehalloran1, @the_analyst, @meetaiqi, @matt_slotnick, @zeffmax, @dariocpx, @tunguz, @scaling01, @bearlyai, @bucknsf, @ns123abc, @mweinbach, @fundamentedge, @signulll, @aiventurelog, @kenwheeler, @contrariancurse, @mikeisaac, @benspringwater, @zeffmax, @ziv_ravid, @deredleritt3r, @quinnypig, @berber_jin1, @scobleizer, @bonegpt, @missmi1973, @yuchenj_uw, and @institlpgp
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is winding down its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea and the US once it clears its inventory, after just three months on the market — Samsung Electronics Co. is winding down sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after roughly three months on the market … | Reuters: |
Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 — Mastercard (MA.N) said on Tuesday it would buy stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion.
More: Mastercard, The Information, Decrypt, Fortune, Capital Brief, The Block, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Axios, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, CNBC, The Crypto Times, Blockonomi, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin News, Condia, Crypto Briefing, and The Defiant
LinkedIn: Sam Boboev, Emily Goodman, and Jesse Hemson-Struthers
| Mistral AI: |
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify the reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models — Today, we are announcing Mistral Small 4. This model is the next major release in the Mistral Small family.
More: Mistral AI, The Decoder, Simon Willison's Weblog, TestingCatalog, and MarkTechPost
X: @testingcatalog, @teksedge, @prince_canuma, @vllm_project, @arafatkatze, @mistraldevs, @rayanabdulcader, @mistraldevs, @kimmonismus, and @mistraldevs. LinkedIn: Gayathri G. Bluesky: @wildebees
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MistralAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and Lobsters
| Jacob Krol / TechRadar: |
How Disney Imagineering built Olaf, a robot set to arrive at Disneyland Paris later in March, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation — The next-gen robot arrives at Disneyland Paris this month — It's been less than five months since Walt Disney Imagineering showed off …
More: Implicator.ai, Gizmodo, The Verge, Benzinga, CNET, WDW News Today, IGN, IGN, and Disney Experiences
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible — Amazon said Tuesday it's starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the U.S., as the company continues to look for ways to satisfy impatient consumers.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat — OpenAI on Friday signed a new contract with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI to U.S. government employees for both classified … | Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: |
Nvidia forms the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, and Thinking Machines Lab, to build an open model on DGX Cloud — Locking in open source support — Nvidia has launched an open AI model development coalition, named Nemotron, and will provide compute.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is running early this week, as I had the chance to speak in person with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang …
More: Data Center Knowledge, Network World, and Key Context
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent; IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he expects IBM will maintain or grow its head count over five years — Deal will help companies access their data for AI agents, says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, as he brushes off AI's risk to IBM's business
More: Capital Brief, Bloomberg, and IBM
| Sam Clark / Politico: |
EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies — Countries impose measures on Iranian, Chinese companies providing hacking services. — BRUSSELS — European Union countries … | Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 — Qualcomm Inc., the largest maker of smartphone processors, plans to buy back another $20 billion worth of shares and is raising …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, and Morningstar
| Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico: |
Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives in Brussels on Tuesday with a clear message for EU regulators ahead of a looming review … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more — Today, I'm talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. — It's basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents — World, co-founded by Sam Altman, is dedicated to creating what it calls “proof of human” tech—ID verification tools …
More: CoinDesk and The Defiant
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and the UK to 70 countries in total, including Colombia, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Uganda, and Malawi — PayPal is dramatically expanding the map of countries where users can send and receive its branded stablecoin.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services — The firm, best known for being one of the oldest crypto market makers, acquired Autonomous and Architech to combine token launch services, trading and treasury management tools.| Reuters: |
Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that can coordinate AI agents to handle business tasks like document editing and research, in a closed beta — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence platform for enterprises targeting automation …
More: Benzinga, CNBC, Ventureburn, Crypto Briefing, and Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
Sources: KKR, Blackstone, and other investors have turned down some data center debt because of insufficient insurance against risks like natural disasters — Lack of sufficient cover means some investors are walking away from deals — Lenders looking to fund the build-out of data centres …
More: Phoenix Business Journal and Bridge Michigan
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems — Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup, on Tuesday announced a $71 million deal with the U.S. Navy to cut … Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
The Upstarts Podcast:
How Ramp Built A $60B AI Product Factory Off A Corporate Card | Co-CEO Eric Glyman
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Great Chat:
Would you let a robot do it?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Training Data:
A Model For Everyone: How Ronak From Trajectory Is Building Products For Continual Learning
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Big Technology Podcast:
Can AI Keep Going After The Democrats' Big Win? — With Teddy Schleifer
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Machine Gods:
Crypto's Biggest Heist Ever + The Spy Who Loved Nvidia + Hacktober's Unsolved Mysteries
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Barry Diller on Big Bets, AI, and Knowing When to Walk Away
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:25 AM ET, March 17, 2026.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Salon:A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
More: Network World, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, DigiTimes, The Korea Times, Blockonomi, Korea Joongang Daily, Nikkei Asia, and The Asia Business Daily. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
Earlier Picks
| Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel: |
More: Washington Post, Jewish Insider, Asia Times, The Overspill, Blockonomi, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Crypto Times, and Cointelegraph
X: @yoda. Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co, @andy.wrestlejoy.com, @adrienneleigh, @lizt1, @joemenn, @seancasten, @joshtpm, @nkalamb, @thmoore, @ariehkovler.com, @therafischwartz, @maxboot, @andrewkarre, @chrismurphyct, @davidgerard.co.uk, @robertscotthorton, @newsjennifer, @yair-rosenberg, @natematias, @kimzetter, and @markjacob
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io, @SeanCasten@mastodon.social, and @natematias@social.coop
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
| Manus: |
More: TestingCatalog. X: @cyb3rops, @manusai, @jerrycap, @joshkale, @iruletheworldmo, @davidlee, @chatgpt21, @damianplayer, @kimmonismus, @oozn, @parkerortolani, @gavinpurcell, @jason, @gr00vyfairy, and @manusai
Bluesky: @justhere4coffee, @tonystark, and @caseynewton
| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
More: Macworld, MacDailyNews, DeLong's Grasping Reality, and Wall Street Journal
X: @lessin, @ayushmarda07, @milkroadai, @milkroadai, @beffjezos, @awnihannun, @thekitze, @hexxrl, @aughtdev, @jason, @duderichy, @peer_rich, @y_molodtsov, @__tinygrad__, and @gnoble79. LinkedIn: Mustafa Fahim