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March 21, 2026, 11:55 AM

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Bloomberg:
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid  —  Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
David Jeans / Reuters:
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military  —  Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary …
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks  —  It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others.  —  Learn more.
Ed Bott / ZDNET:
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11.  — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal  —  Super Micro Computer Inc., the AI computing provider at the center of a smuggling scandal, is working to shore up its compliance operations …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom  —  One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch's $9.3 billion unicorn Vercel.
Jerry Neumann / Colossus:
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats  —  Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship.  The Red Queen offers something better.
Wall Street Journal:
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal  —  Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back
Chang Che / The Guardian:
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments  —  How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots?  I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
Associated Press:
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio  —  The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply …

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