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March 21, 2026, 9:25 AM

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Bloomberg:
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid  —  Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
Ed Bott / ZDNET:
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11.  — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks  —  It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others.  —  Learn more.
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers  —  OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of the year as it accelerates a push to sell to businesses and gain ground …
More: Reuters
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Associated Press:
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio  —  The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply …
Chang Che / The Guardian:
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments  —  How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots?  I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
@kimi_moonshot:
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 is “the foundation” of Cursor's Composer 2 model; Cursor says it “should have mentioned” Composer 2 started from the base of Kimi K2.5  —  Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord  —  Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
Wall Street Journal:
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal  —  Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back
Jerry Neumann / Colossus:
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats  —  Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship.  The Red Queen offers something better.

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