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March 28, 2026, 6:35 AM
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Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label  —  But while Thursday's decision is a win for Anthropic, several lawyers and lobbyists said it will do little to lift the cloud …
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will hit their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity  —  Follow Brent D. Griffiths … - Anthropic adjusted Claude usage caps during peak hours.  — The changes show that the AI company is experiencing some compute strain.
Reuters:
Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and publishes some documents online  —  Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and his purported resume to the internet.
TechCrunch:
The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was “historical in nature” and involves no government info
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to “take down content doxxing or threatening” DOGE staffers  —  The two have a complicated history, but were apparently on friendlier terms at the start of the Trump Administration.
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7%  —  A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025.
Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel:
Sony Japan temporarily suspends fulfillment of orders for nearly all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to solid state memory shortages  —  The global shortage of solid state memory has claimed its first photographic victim, as Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
A Jeffrey Epstein victim files a class action against the Trump administration and Google, claiming Google's search and AI Mode published victims' personal info  —  A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of herself and other survivors …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900  —  The PS5 Pro will be a $900 console as of April 2nd. … Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally starting April 2nd.
Reuters:
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan  —  Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies …
Emily Goodin / New York Post:
The Trump administration launches the White House app, promising news “straight from the source, no filter”, with news, live, social, and gallery sections  —  The Trump administration announced the launch of the White House app on Friday, promising news “straight from the source, no filter.”
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021  —  At the height of the pandemic and the global shift to remote work, tech founders and investors alike flocked to Austin, Texas …

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From Mediagazer

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner in the defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the broadcaster

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: WBD president and CEO David Zaslav sold $195M+ worth of WBD stock since the company agreed to be acquired by Paramount; his latest sale totaled $21.7M

CNBC:
Q&A with Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro: he's not interested in spinoffs of ESPN or ABC and says Disney will stand up for ABC's journalistic integrity against the FCC

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Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the company
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Microsoft will lease Crusoe's 900 MW data center in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle and OpenAI reportedly withdrew, with the first building expected by mid-2027
Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal:
Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a “step change” in performance after a draft blog post in an unsecured data store revealed a Claude Mythos model
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20+ initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack
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