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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 — In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January — We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @quinnypig.com, @reckless, @seanokane, @seanhollister, and @miasato
| Politico: |
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more — The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers — The AI company will combine ChatGPT, Codex app and browser in an effort to focus and streamline its resources
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 — The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China; SMCI drops 25%+ — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors like chipmaking and defense and automate them with AI — Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup
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| Arthur Mensch / Financial Times: |
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors” — A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty
| Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground — Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team … | Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021 — Savvy Games Group has agreed to buy the Moonton studio from ByteDance Ltd. as the Saudi Arabian firm builds up its mobile gaming assets.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
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| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system — Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value in ~24 hours after investors punished the two Chinese tech leaders for unclear AI monetization plans — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. lost $66 billion of market value in roughly 24 hours, after the market punished … | DeepDelver: |
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence — How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses — In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace …
More: MiniMax and TestingCatalog
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, generating $8M+ in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy — The man at the center of what's been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty.
More: US Department of Justice, CMU, Rolling Stone, BleepingComputer, Digital Music News, and Help Net Security. LinkedIn: Melissa Morgia
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the start of 2026 and employed ~445 people as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 — Gemini Space Station Inc.'s workforce reduction has reached roughly 30% since the start of the year following layoffs …
More: Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, and Blockhead. Bluesky: @wildebees
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: Anthropic privately discussed issues like export controls with the House Homeland Security Committee on March 18, only briefly mentioning its DOD fight — - The discussion focused largely on issues like model distillation — shrinking powerful AI systems into smaller versions — and export controls.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks — Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors … | Jessica Sui / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit — China's leading robot company, Unitree Robotics, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, moving a step closer …
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Notebookcheck
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