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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types of digital assets it deems to be securities.
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are “not aware of specifics”  —  Chinese authorities have granted approval for multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 AI chips from Nvidia, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays  —  Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini.  — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app  —  Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music  —  Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumers; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building new AI models  —  Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users  —  Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada  —  It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada.  —  Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating …
CoinDesk:
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March  —  The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.  —  What to know:
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens  —  Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement
Reuters:
The UK's FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them  —  U.S. tech giant Meta (META.O) has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in Britain …
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Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg:
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine  —  Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data  —  The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions …
Financial Times:
Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement  —  Rift deepens as start-up tests limits of Microsoft's exclusive rights to host its models  —  Microsoft is weighing legal action …
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The San Francisco Standard:
Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom  —  When Zach Dive completed his stint at the startup accelerator Y Combinator last summer, he began thinking about where to put his company's first office.
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings  —  Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers …
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left for Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more  —  AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
A federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Oscars drew 17.86M viewers on ABC and Hulu, down about 9% from 2025; the show delivered a 3.92 rating among those 18-49, or about 5.34M viewers

Danielle Broadway / Reuters:
Two episodes of an animated Stranger Things spinoff will screen on April 18 in 34 AMC theaters and two others before an April 23 Netflix release

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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
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
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