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March 4, 2026, 4:10 AM

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago, driven by strong Claude usage  —  Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government  —  A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down, and two other team members leave; one contributor says “I know leaving wasn't your choice”  —  Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.
Apple:
Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage  —  The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage
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Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI all-hands: Sam Altman defends the DOD deal, calls the backlash “painful”, and says OpenAI is considering a deal to deploy AI on NATO classified networks  —  Startup's deal to do classified work with Defense Department drew backlash from staff and other AI researchers
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines  —  Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools  —  Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash  —  Get best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads. … Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
OpenAI:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users  —  Today, we're releasing an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month  —  TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.
Financial Times:
Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games  —  Chinese company's investments in ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games and other creators have faced long-running US security review
More: Reuters, Game Developer, TechNode, and Kotaku
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The Information:
Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages  —  OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's popular code repository that lets software engineers store …
Andre Revilla / Engadget:
X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure  —  The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure.  —  X will suspend creators …

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