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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers — The AI company will combine ChatGPT, Codex app and browser in an effort to focus and streamline its resources
More: Silicon Republic, Times of India, Business Standard, CNBC, The Decoder, XDA Developers, Reuters, Business Today, Livemint, DigiTimes, Moneycontrol, The Information, Digit, Engadget, The Verge, Digital Trends, Neowin, and Phandroid
X: @fidjissimo, @karrisaarinen, @jasonhiner, @berber_jin1, @mweinbach, @omooretweets, and @berber_jin1. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
More: OpenAI, Astral, Ars Technica, MacStories, InfoWorld, Verdict, The Register, and iPhone in Canada
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LinkedIn: Jason Lantz, Charlie Marsh, and Nick Sologoub
Bluesky: @wildebees, @tiny.baby, @seldo.com, @timonsku.zip, @ramon-astudillo, @reillywood.com, and @cameron.stream. Mastodon: @webology@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/rust, and r/BetterOffline
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI — Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup
More: TechCrunch, Digit, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, SiliconANGLE, Raw Story, StrictlyVC, Seattle Business Journal, Benzinga, Capital Brief, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Business Insider, Forbes, The Economic Times, and Implicator.ai
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, and r/technology
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85% after hours — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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Bluesky: @jordannovet.cnbc.com and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/AMD_Stock, r/hardware, r/Taiwanese, r/SMCIDiscussion, and r/technology
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 — The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting … | Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground — Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …
More: Microsoft AI, Windows Central, The Next Web, The Decoder, The Deep View, Thurrott, and Neowin
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo V2 Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
More: Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, and Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love
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Forums: r/SillyTavernAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses — In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace …
More: MiniMax. X: @artificialanlys, @minimax_ai, @kimmonismus, @ollama, @minimax_ai, @erikvoorhees, @arena, @openrouter, @kimmonismus, and @arena
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies' — The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of “Project Sunrise”, its proposed orbital AI data center system — Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users — Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today's news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
More: Bluesky, The Block, Blockonomi, crypto.news, The Next Web, Telecompaper, and Knight Foundation
Bluesky: @oldsquida, @parismarx.com, @katjadiehl, @coocho, @zig.computer, @tante.cc, @whateverhewants, @artifex, and @bsky.app
Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, and @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude — Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.'s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.| The Information: |
Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round — Amazon has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed, a deal that could help the commerce …
More: Sifted, TechCrunch, CNBC, Neowin, The Independent, The Robot Report, Engadget, and PYMNTS.com
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 — Gemini Space Station Inc.'s workforce reduction has reached roughly 30% since the start of the year following layoffs … | Wired: |
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions — Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI.
More: Confer Blog and Gizmodo
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Bluesky: @agreenberg, @lhn, and @couts
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 — ByteDance Ltd. has agreed to sell games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, unloading a gaming studio it acquired … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers — The one-time ‘advanced flow’ includes 24 hours of cooling off time. … Google has revealed the “advanced flow” …
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Bluesky: @infrequently.org, @dompreston.com, and @tcarmody
Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe and @Aryan@dragonscave.space
Forums: r/Android, r/AfterVanced, r/EmulationOnAndroid, r/androidroot, r/brasil, r/technology, r/degoogle, r/androiddev, and r/fossdroid
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. lost $66 billion of market value in roughly 24 hours, after the market punished …
More: Benzinga
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy — The man at the center of what's been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty.| The Block: |
Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program — Quick Take — Eligible participants will be able to settle trades in tokenized form during a pilot program operated by the Depository Trust Company.
More: CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, Wall Street Journal, Blockonomi, and Cointelegraph
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B — Coatue Management is leading the new financing that would total about $1 billion for the prediction-market platform, according to sources
More: The Information, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, and Crypto Briefing
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks — Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors …
X: @saritharai
| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI — Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse.
More: 404 Media, TechCrunch, The Verge, Mashable, Sweden Herald, DigiTimes, Politico, Implicator.ai, Sandra Rose, and Lowpass
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Bluesky: @ethanz, @tommysalty, @tabletopminions, @deanwampler.com, @maeve, @shadowmanos, @edzitron.com, @daniloc.xyz, and @kashhill. Threads: @boztank
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Cursor says Composer 2 is “frontier-level at coding” and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more — 38.0 — 40.0 — 56.9 — These quality improvements come from our first continued pretraining run … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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