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March 17, 2026, 9:05 PM
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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types of digital assets it deems to be securities.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini.  — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumers; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building new AI models  —  Microsoft said Tuesday that it's bringing together the engineering groups for its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users  —  Google announced on Tuesday that it's expanding Personal Intelligence, its feature that allows its AI assistant to tailor …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada  —  It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada.  —  Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating …
Reuters:
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded  —  Nvidia is preparing a version of its Groq artificial-intelligence chips that can be sold to the Chinese market, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in the process of restarting manufacturing of its H200 chips for shipments to China and it has received orders from “many customers”
Bloomberg:
Samsung says it is winding down its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea and the US once it clears its inventory, after just three months on the market  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is winding down sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after roughly three months on the market …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays  —  Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app  —  Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
CoinDesk:
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March  —  The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.  —  What to know:
Mistral AI:
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify the reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible  —  Amazon said Tuesday it's starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the U.S., as the company continues to look for ways to satisfy impatient consumers.
Reuters:
Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026  —  Mastercard (MA.N) said on Tuesday it would buy stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games  —  The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus.
New York Times:
Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore  —  The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material  —  The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data  —  The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions …
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left for Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more  —  AI startup You.com, valued at $1.5 billion after a funding round in September, is changing its senior leadership as it focuses on helping businesses adopt AI.
More: You.com
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M  —  For companies operating around the world, hiring vendors for one-off purchases in other countries can be a complicated process, eating up time and resources.
More: Candex and Pulse 2.0

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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”

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Financial Times:
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