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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.
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using its Comet browser for purchases on behalf of users, and to destroy copies of Amazon's data  —  Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
After backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address  —  No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and …
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
Pentagon official Emil Michael says Anthropic's lawsuit is an “expected reaction” and “I don't think there's a scenario where this gets resolved in that way”
Financial Times:
Thinking Machines Lab signs a deal with Nvidia to deploy 1GW+ of Vera Rubin chips; Nvidia makes a “significant” investment in Thinking Machines Lab  —  Multiyear partnership includes a further ‘significant’ investment from Nvidia into one-year-old AI start-up
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.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, vs. $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% to $8.9B, vs. $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ after hours  —  Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results that surpassed Wall Street projections …
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer  —  The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …
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 …
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 …
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts  —  Polymarket is enlisting firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. to help police its sports contracts as prediction markets face intense scrutiny over insider trading.
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  —  This  TheThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click.
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Sandbar, which is developing the Stream ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M  —  Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi has raised $23M in Series A funding to fuel the launch of his AI note-taking ring, called Stream.
Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz:
A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the “default AI” is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents are here
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 …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business  —  The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
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 …
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 …

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warns broadcasters not to air “fake polls” or “suppression polls”, once again threatening regulatory action for news content

Jem Aswad / Variety:
WMG plans to combine its recorded music and publishing sync divisions into a single unit, to be led by Ron Broitman, who is promoted to President of Global Sync

Owen Lewis / Defector:
Spotify-owned outlet The Ringer moves newsletters by some of its most popular staff to Substack; Spotify declines to explain the strategy behind the move

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Martin Matishak / The Record:
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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
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
Aaron Clark / Bloomberg:
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays its Middle East imagery from four days to two weeks over concerns it could be used to target NATO members
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