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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round — Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1bn for his new start-up in Europe's largest ever seed funding round.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook for an undisclosed sum; its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs — Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned. … - Meta did not disclose Moltbook's purchase price.
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Memo: Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell says junior and mid-level engineers now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted code changes, after outages — Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ — Amazon's ecommerce business …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and 30+ employees from OpenAI and Google file an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its legal fight with the US DOD — Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
More: CNN, Associated Press, Semafor, The Verge, and Axios
Forums: r/tech, r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, r/technology, and r/politics
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels — The MacBook Neo looks and feels like it's expensive. That's the magic. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware …
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Forums: r/hardware and Ars OpenForum
| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a “Help me create” tool in Docs to generate first drafts — Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.| Financial Times: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips — Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Epic says V-bucks will get more expensive starting March 19, with players getting 800 V-bucks for $8.99, down from 1,000 now, citing Fortnite running costs — Starting on March 19th, Fortnite players will get fewer V-bucks for their money. … For instance, players can currently …
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize — No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren … | David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a typical code review costs $15 to $25 in token usage — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce — ART BY SAMAR HADDAD — This article is a collaboration between The Verge and New York Magazine.
Bluesky: @joshdzieza, @joshdzieza, @ketanjoshi.co, and @joshdzieza
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option — In a slight capitulation to those who don't want AI infused into their everyday apps … | Wired: |
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools as part of it — Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts — Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers … | Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: |
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, or ~25% of total iPhone production, as it shifts away from China amid US tariffs — Apple Inc. increased iPhone production in India by about 53% last year and now makes a quarter of its marquee devices there …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10K writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work — About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
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Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/books, and r/technology
| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation” — YouTube is expanding a tool designed to detect impersonations to a select group of government officials, political candidates and journalists.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage — In the midst of frankly insane market conditions, Oppo and OnePlus have confirmed plans to raise prices of existing smartphones and other products starting next week.
More: Gizmochina and PhoneArena
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is introducing artificial intelligence agents across the Pentagon's three million-strong workforce … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product since 2024, killing its set-top box plans, the app fiasco, and more — Tom Conrad's tenure as CEO of Sonos Inc. kicked off with both personal and company crises. — He had spent years as a board member …
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X: @chriswelch and @chriswelch
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees — Meta Platforms is asking advertisers to cover the costs of digital services taxes, levies imposed by countries on local sales made by technology firms.
More: Search Engine Land, Reuters, Payments Dive, and Brussels Signal
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation — Rhoda uses widely available internet video to train industrial robots for a variety of conditions — A new AI startup is betting …
More: Reuters and SiliconANGLE
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not “comprehensive enough” to handle misinformation in a conflict — The board is calling on Meta to scale AI content labeling, including C2PA.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Salesforce plans a record debt sale of up to $25B to fund its share buybacks; the company announced a $50B stock buyback program in February — Salesforce Inc. is planning to sell as much as $25 billion of debt to fund a share buyback, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
More: Benzinga
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US — Swedish legal artificial intelligence startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round led by Accel …
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, CNBC, Sifted, Reuters, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, The Next Web, and Menlo Ventures
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