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March 29, 2026, 1:05 AM

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin  —  Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology
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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.
Logan Bartlett / @loganbartlett:
A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI  —  This week I co-wrote Redpoint's 2026 Market Update for our Limited Partners with my colleagues @AdilBhatia and @lydianday.
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was “rattled” on the stand  —  Plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier uses props and parables to challenge social-media giants, drugmakers and manufacturers …
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Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs:
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected  —  The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers.
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.”

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