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March 23, 2026, 9:10 AM
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources describe how Meta's employees build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster  —  Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
Mike Sorrentino / CNET:
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions  —  AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.
Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal:
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket  —  Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric  —  Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple  —  Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony is nearing an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL for ~$1B, to be announced as soon as in March  —  Sony Group Corp. is nearing a binding agreement to sell a majority stake in its home entertainment business …
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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders  —  Luxury ride-hailing app Wheely is making its debut in the US, presenting competition to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. …
Bloomberg:
Sources: EA is marketing a $15B debt package to fund its $55B Saudi-led take-private deal, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings  —  For Electronic Arts Inc.'s prospective debt investors, Battlefield 6 and Skate aren't just two of the video-game maker's most popular titles.
Nino Paoli / Bloomberg:
AI chip company Kandou AI raised $225M from SoftBank, Synopsys, and others at a $400M valuation after pivoting from consumer hardware to AI infrastructure  —  Kandou AI, an artificial-intelligence chip company led by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. managing director, raised $225 million …
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA  —  Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ABC could lose ~$50M in licensing costs to WBD and an estimated $35M in advertising revenue after abruptly pulling the new season of The Bachelorette

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A group of 75+ civil rights advocates, former FCC officials, and academics urges FCC Chair Brendan Carr to withdraw his threats to broadcasters' licenses

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Project Hail Mary opens to an estimated $80.5M in box office sales in the US and Canada and $60.4M internationally, marking its first box office hit

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Zack Abrams / The Block:
Indian media: Indian police arrest two CoinDCX cofounders, after a complainant alleged investment fraud tied to the exchange; CoinDCX calls the claims “false”

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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen
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