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March 24, 2026, 11:45 AM

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Bloomberg:
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers  —  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
Blake Stimac / CNET:
Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, available in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers  —  The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
TechCrunch:
A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box”  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker  —  Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
Lex Fridman:
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US  —  Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin  —  Quick Take  — Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves.
Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Kalshi announces new tech guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, coaches, officials, and others from trading in politics and sports markets  —  Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates …
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML  —  Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation  —  Halter, a New Zealand-based startup selling artificial intelligence-powered collars for cows, has raised $220 million from investors to expand …
Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg:
Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays  —  Finland put on ice a plan to move its election platform to Amazon Web Services Inc., the latest development in Europe's drive …
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch  —  Driverless car group pushes forward with commercial rollout to catch up with rivals Waymo and Tesla
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits $30B more to OpenAI  —  Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments  —  SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …
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