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March 31, 2026, 7:25 PM

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI closed a $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously announcing the round would total $110B  —  OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Claude Code's source code leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a “Self-Healing Memory” architecture, and more  —  Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude Code, to the public.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach”  —  Anthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
Socket:
A supply chain attack compromised HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency into specific npm releases  —  Socket Research Team … Our analysis shows the malicious package deploys a multi-stage payload, including a remote access trojan …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069  —  A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
Bloomberg:
Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected  —  Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin …
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months  —  Your old email will still be available as an alternate address. … Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it.
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies such as Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla in the Middle East on Wednesday at 8pm local time  —  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, with swappable nosepads and compatibility with more prescription lenses, on sale April 14  —  Meta is also adding new translation and food-tracking abilities to all its frames.  —  The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people  —  Software maker Oracle has started telling employees that it's conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the move told CNBC.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect  —  Apple Inc. is testing a feature that would let Siri process multiple requests in a single query, according to people familiar with the matter …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools  —  Following OpenAI's Sora exit last week, Google today said it's committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an “anomaly”, following a similar incident in December; the satellite likely exploded  —  It follows a similar incident from December. … SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an “anomaly.”
Sebastian Mallaby / Colossus:
An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist  —  The inside story of how DeepMind's experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist
Dana Wollman / Bloomberg:
Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+  —  Nvidia Corp. is taking a $2 billion stake in Marvell Technology Inc. and opening up its system to allow Marvell …
Lola Murti / CNBC:
Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs  —  Shares of Snap climbed 14% Tuesday after shareholder Irenic Capital Management sent a letter to CEO Evan Spiegel outlining changes …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025  —  Autonomous ship startup Saronic said Tuesday that it's raised $1.75 billion as it ramps up production to meet mounting U.S. military demand …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model  —  The Nvidia app beta introduces 6x Multi Frame Generation for RTX 50-series GPUs. … Nvidia has launched the next major update …
Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET:
Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app  —  The globally available feature is finally rolling out in the US, but you'll need to buy extra hardware to use it.
Niko Gallogly / New York Times:
Wearable maker Whoop raised $575M led by Collaborative Fund at a $10.1B valuation and says it hit $1B in ARR by 2025's end; 60% of its 2025 sales were non-US  —  With elite athletes like LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo as investors, the company, now valued at $10 billion, is courting everyday health enthusiasts.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity  —  Microsoft Corp. is in exclusive talks with Chevron Corp. and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a long-term deal that would underpin …
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon strikes a deal to provide internet access on Delta flights via its Leo satellite business, starting with 500 aircraft in 2028, without disclosing terms  —  Amazon's Leo service will start connecting a portion of Delta's fleet in 2028; Elon Musk's Starlink has become a dominant satellite connectivity provider to airlines

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