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March 12, 2026, 10:50 AM
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CNBC:
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges  —  Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran  —  The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped  —  Medical technology giant Stryker …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week  —  A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
Will Knight / Wired:
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models  —  The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software:
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility  —  I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo.  It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US  —  A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen  —  Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework  —  The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions”  —  'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026  —  Uber intends to start offering the service through a licensed taxi partner in Japan  —  Uber Technologies, Nissan Motor …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.  — CNBC Councils
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026  —  Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board.  It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services were 19% each  —  Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines  —  At a new 12,000 square metre facility in Wuhan …
Varsha Bansal / The Guardian:
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all  —  Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project  —  Follow Grace Kay … - XAI's Macrohard project has stalled amid leadership changes and a data project pause.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation  —  In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital  —  Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies' procurement processes, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

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Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review:
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze
Laura Cress / BBC:
The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites
The Verge:
Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027
Ina Fried / Axios:
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent initially only for macOS, and an enterprise version of its cloud-based Perplexity Computer
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