| 11:40 PM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Cursor launches Automations, a tool that lets developers automatically launch agents, triggered through an addition to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer |
| 11:20 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over a 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; Tron-affiliated company Rainberry will pay the $10M fine |
| 10:50 PM • | Zeyi Yang / Wired: Heavy Seedance 2.0 demand is straining ByteDance's compute capacity, creating a bottleneck that is causing the AI model to take hours to generate a single video |
| 10:05 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI's models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 |
| 9:45 PM • | Anna Washenko / Engadget: The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users online; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass |
| 8:50 PM • | New York Times: A look at Seattle-based Cloverleaf, which signs deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies' data center needs; the startup has raised $300M |
| 8:00 PM • | Anthropic: Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for his leaked memo |
| 7:45 PM • | Ben Patterson / PCWorld: Google quietly releases an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and its other apps |
| 7:00 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it “is the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online” |
| 6:30 PM • | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the US has drafted a rule that would require countries whose companies buy large volumes of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to invest in US AI infrastructure |
| 5:30 PM • | The Information: Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025 |
| 4:25 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Claude's daily signups have grown 4x since the start of 2026, and 1M+ users now sign up every day; Apptopia: Claude downloads jumped 220% WoW |
| 3:45 PM • | Courtenay Brown / Axios: Anthropic debuts an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs and says it shows “limited evidence” of AI-led job loss so far |
| 3:30 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games” |
| 3:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X revamps its Creator Subscriptions with exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, a shareable subscriptions card, and more |
| 2:30 PM • | Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Meta says it hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the startup that makes the vibe coding app Gizmo, earlier in 2026 to join its Superintelligence Labs |
| 1:40 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input and $15/1M output tokens while GPT-5.4 Pro is $30/1M input and $180/1M output tokens, more than GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Pro |
| 1:33 PM • | Bloomberg: The US DOD says it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately” |
| 1:30 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work |
| 1:25 PM • | David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI says GPT-5.4's “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2” |
| 1:20 PM • | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens |
| 1:11 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools |
| 1:08 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities |
| 1:05 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort |
| 12:55 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the company's support of “US military and intelligence activities” |
| 12:42 PM • | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments for each country |
| 12:20 PM • | Zeyi Yang / Wired: Apple implemented geoblocking in January 2026 to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account |
| 12:15 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Roblox launches “real-time chat rephrasing”, an AI feature that replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of showing profanities as “####” |
| 12:00 PM • | Sander Lutz / Decrypt: The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service |
| 11:30 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix acquires InterPositive, a 16-person startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds AI models based on a production's dailies for later use in postproduction |
| 11:25 AM • | Reuters: Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M |
| 11:20 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Sam Altman takes swipes at Anthropic, saying it's “bad for society” if companies abandon their commitment to the democratic process based on who is President |
| 10:50 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff |
| 10:45 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M |
| 10:35 AM • | Reuters: Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO |
| 10:20 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed |
| 9:45 AM • | Matt Day / Bloomberg: AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification |
| 9:35 AM • | Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols around notifying police about potentially suspicious ChatGPT use |
| 9:25 AM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low |
| 9:10 AM • | Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness |
| 8:45 AM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z |
| 8:35 AM • | Reuters: China's new five-year blueprint introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more |
| 8:20 AM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation |
| 8:05 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed |
| 7:55 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board |
| 7:40 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Meta agrees to let rival “general purpose AI chatbots” access WhatsApp for a fee in Europe for a 12-month period to avoid potential interim measures from the EU |
| 6:45 AM • | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Analysis: soaring NAND prices threaten Nintendo's software sales; the average games purchased per console came to 2.18 in December 2025, vs. 3.88 in March 2018 |
| 6:30 AM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Google expands its Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using Google Search's AI Mode so they can get the latest info to organize plans, draft docs, and more |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value |
| 6:00 AM • | Bloomberg: JD.com reports Q4 revenue up 1.5% YoY to ~$51.1B and a ~$391M net loss, its first quarterly loss since 2022, on weak Chinese spending and a food delivery war |
| 5:50 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app practices until at least September 2032 and mandates that he praise them |
| 5:30 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Amsterdam-based Silverflow, a cloud-native card payment processing service with a single API to card networks, raised a $40M Series B led by Picus Capital |
| 5:10 AM • | Mathieu Pollet / Politico: Huawei dominated MWC as the largest exhibitor, illustrating the challenge that the EU faces as it pushes to outlaw the Chinese supplier from European networks |
| 2:50 AM • | Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for the third year straight and has supported 1,000+ companies since 2002 |
| 2:45 AM • | Miles Klee / Wired: Superhuman's Grammarly offers an AI-powered tool called “Expert Review” that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission |
| 2:40 AM • | Reuters: Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its Qwen AI head Lin Junyang |
| 2:30 AM • | Shaun Prescott / PC Gamer: On its Q3 2025 earnings call, Capcom said that “PC sales account for approximately 50% of total unit sales, and we expect this ratio to continue increasing” |
| 2:25 AM • | Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Oslo-based Unleash, which develops tools that let enterprises manage risks in AI-accelerated software development, raised a $35M Series B led by One Peak |
| 2:20 AM • | Michael Dempsey / Financial Times: A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub that 300 businesses joined in 2025, up from 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since its 2022 debut |
| 1:50 AM • | Bloomberg: NATO officials say NATO's July summit will focus on more efficient investments into drones and AI systems, rather than primarily conventional defense hardware |
| 1:40 AM • | Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora |
| 1:00 AM • | The Information: OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT |
| 12:55 AM • | Jared Perlo / NBC News: Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration |
| 12:45 AM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia has reallocated manufacturing capacity at TSMC away from making H200 chips, intended for the Chinese market, to its next-gen Vera Rubin products |
| 12:15 AM • | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The US Central Command says US military forces are using a range of AI tools to quickly verify and analyze enormous amounts of data for operations against Iran |
| 11:50 PM • | Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: OpenAI hit $25B annualized revenue by February's end, up from $21.4B at 2025's end; OpenAI annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 |
| 11:30 PM • | Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated artwork, tracks, composition, and videos |
| 11:20 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data |
| 10:55 PM • | Lindsey Weedston / The Daily Dot: Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical |
| 10:31 PM • | Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” |
| 9:55 PM • | Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity of nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time |
| 9:31 PM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare for its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing |
| 8:55 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models |
| 8:40 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal |
| 8:20 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month |
| 7:50 PM • | Associated Press: Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements before trying to stop the acquisition in July 2022 |
| 7:10 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI releases a Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for developer environments in PowerShell, after launching a macOS app in February |
| 6:40 PM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help it double its consumer ChatGPT revenue to $17B in 2026 |
| 6:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the White House's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states via rate deals, without penalties for those refusing to comply |
| 6:16 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's findings on how the company's apps affect users and teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments |
| 6:01 PM • | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation |
| 5:45 PM • | Reuters: Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers |
| 5:30 PM • | The Information: Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump” |
| 5:16 PM • | Fortune: Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 |
| 4:35 PM • | CNBC: Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, above $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% YoY to $8.4B, and authorizes up to $10B in share buybacks through 2026 |
| 4:01 PM • | Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating |
| 2:35 PM • | Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a |
| 2:25 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices |
| 2:15 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the company, because OpenAI is “going to go public” |
| 1:35 PM • | Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members |
| 1:15 PM • | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere |
| 12:22 PM • | Reuters: Sources: some Anthropic investors push it to de-escalate its DOD clash and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; Big Tech group ITIC expressed concern |
| 11:55 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation |
| 11:01 AM • | Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns |
| 10:30 AM • | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times” |
| 10:15 AM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an “extreme” reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K |
| 10:10 AM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s |
| 9:40 AM • | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: MacBook Neo hands-on: it doesn't feel budget, with an aluminum body and weighing 2.7 lbs like the Air, but it has a flimsy keyboard and no option above 8GB RAM |
| 9:30 AM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019 |
| 9:24 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors |
| 9:12 AM • | Tom's Hardware: Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID |
| 9:10 AM • | Jason Snell / Six Colors: Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming “performance cores” to “super cores” and “efficiency cores” to “performance cores” |
| 8:40 AM • | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Sony no longer plans to release its big single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major strategy shift that sees it returning to console exclusivity |
| 8:15 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Perplexity signs a multiyear deal with CoreWeave to use dedicated clusters powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips for AI inference; CRWV jumps 5%+ |
| 7:25 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Kraken says its banking unit won “master account” access to the US Fed's core payment systems, making it the first crypto company that can move money like banks |
| 7:10 AM • | Washington Post: Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran |
| 7:01 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 |
| 6:45 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Boston-based Whoop, which makes screenless fitness bands, says it plans to increase its staff by up to 75% in 2026, adding 600+ new roles, ahead of a likely IPO |
| 6:35 AM • | Vivian Wang / New York Times: Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public seem more optimistic about AI, likely because Chinese tech companies focus on real-world applications |
| 6:15 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: A top Call of Duty leaker, TheGhostOfHope on X, says he'll stop after Activision “legally demanded” he “stop leaking and disseminating confidential information” |
| 6:05 AM • | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume |
| 5:45 AM • | Amy Fan / New York Times: Analysis: since 2025's end, Polymarket users rarely bet large sums on US strikes by the next day; the day before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts made such bets |
| 4:25 AM • | Jaspreet Kalra / Reuters: Sources: Walmart-backed PhonePe targets a $9B to $10.5B valuation in its Indian IPO; PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation in October |
| 4:05 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Visa and Stripe's Bridge plan to expand their partnership to issue stablecoin-linked cards in 100+ countries; the cards are currently live in 18 countries |
| 3:50 AM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 for smartphones, promising better protection against years of drops, first launching on the upcoming Motorola Razr Fold |
| 1:50 AM • | Jasper Goodman / Politico: Sources: President Trump met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on March 3 before publicly bashing banks for their GENIUS Act stance, echoing Coinbase's position |
| 1:30 AM • | Hyunsu Yim / Reuters: An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on all NATO classified networks, adding he meant “unclassified networks” |
| 12:55 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Asia's smaller chip companies are hiking prices like their bigger peers as AI demand fuels capex; TrendForce: the leaders will spend $136B+ in 2026, up 25%+ YoY |
| 12:40 AM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The UK government commits an initial £40M to establish an AI research lab, modeled on ARIA, seeking breakthroughs in science, health care, and transportation |
| 12:25 AM • | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Sea's NYSE-listed stock fell up to 27% on March 3, its worst intraday drop since 2023, after Sea reported Q4 net income up 73% YoY to $410.9M, below $442M est. |
| 12:10 AM • | Reuters: Lockheed Martin plans to follow the US DOD's Anthropic ban; lawyers specializing in tech and contracting laws say defense contractors would be quick to comply |
| 11:55 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: Security researchers successfully prompted the AI system behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an “unrestricted therapeutic”, and more |
| 10:40 PM • | The Information: Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a better retention rate than OpenAI, reminding its employees of its “mission” while countering competitors trying to hire them |
| 9:55 PM • | Joe Tidy / BBC: TikTok says it won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and its safety teams from reading messages when needed and it wants to protect young users |
| 9:25 PM • | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: OpenAI's “red lines” in its DOD agreement effectively adopt the words that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the very things they appear to prohibit |
| 8:20 PM • | Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M |
| 8:10 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government |
| 7:45 PM • | Tom Nugent / Sifted: Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D, with $50M coming from the UK government's National Wealth Fund; Nvidia's NVentures also invested |
| 7:35 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games |
| 7:00 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes |
| 6:45 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down, and two other team members leave; one contributor says “I know leaving wasn't your choice” |
| 6:40 PM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Intel says Craig Barratt will succeed board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009 and will retire after its May annual shareholder meeting |
| 6:35 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic recently passed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and ~$14B a few weeks ago, as its clash with the US DOD casts doubt |
| 6:15 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Trump says “the GENIUS Act is being threatened and undermined by the banks”, which are holding the CLARITY Act hostage, as they oppose stablecoin yield payouts |
| 6:10 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: All-hands: Sam Altman says OpenAI does not “get to make operational decisions” regarding how the US DOD uses its tech, and the Pentagon respects its expertise |
| 5:55 PM • | The Information: Source: OpenAI is building a GitHub alternative; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in GitHub outages |
| 5:50 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month |
| 5:20 PM • | Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.31B, above $1.30B est., ARR up 24% YoY to $5.25B, and a $38.7M net income, up from an $86.3M net loss in Q4 2024 |
| 5:10 PM • | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools |
| 5:00 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service “in the coming months”; some shows will be available on Audible |
| 4:50 PM • | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI licensing deal with News Corp for UK and US content, worth up to $50M per year and running for at least three years |
| 4:10 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a “desktop-like multi-window experience” |
| 3:45 PM • | Catherine Perloff / The Information: Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots |
| 3:35 PM • | Wall Street Journal: All-hands: Sam Altman defends OpenAI's US DOD deal, calls the backlash “painful”, and says OpenAI is looking at a deal to deploy on all NATO classified networks |
| 3:20 PM • | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Anthropic says voice mode for Claude Code is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks |
| 2:56 PM • | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization, which will have an ultra-flat structure, to help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts |
| 2:45 PM • | Andre Revilla / Engadget: X announces a policy change, suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure |
| 2:20 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines |
| 2:00 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March |
| 1:40 PM • | Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: OpenAI says GPT-5.3 Instant's tone should feel less “cringe” than GPT-5.2 Instant and the model has a smoother, more to-the-point conversational style |
| 1:35 PM • | Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: JetStream Security, which offers an “AI Blueprints” tool that provides real-time mapping of AI agent activity, raised a $34M seed led by Redpoint |
| 1:10 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users |
| 1:05 PM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Sources: Anduril is seeking to raise about $4B in a round co-led by Thrive Capital and a16z, which could nearly double the startup's valuation to ~$60B |
| 12:20 PM • | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Intel unveils its Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft moves Build from Seattle back to San Francisco, scheduled for June 2-3, instead of May, and invites 2,500 developers, down from the usual 3,000-5,000 |
| 12:10 PM • | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 |
| 12:05 PM • | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Ziff Davis agrees to sell its Connectivity division, including Ookla and Downdetector, to Accenture for $1.2B in cash, to focus on enthusiast websites like IGN |
| 11:45 AM • | The Keyword: Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance at a fraction of the cost of larger models” and outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash |
| 11:15 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X is testing a standalone X Chat iOS app with 1,000 users via Apple's TestFlight, a shift away from Elon Musk's plan to make X an “everything app” |
| 10:40 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Audible launches a cheaper, $8.99/month streaming tier in the US, vs. $14.95/month for its premium plan, to rival Spotify; the plan includes ad-free podcasts |
| 10:25 AM • | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding |
| 9:50 AM • | Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global venture investment hit a record $189B in February, up close to 780% YoY, amid the AI boom; 83% of the month's total went to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo |
| 9:25 AM • | Engadget: Apple says the M5 MacBook Pro starts at $1,699 for the 14" model, up $100, and the M5 Pro and Max models start at $2,199 and $2,699, respectively, both up $200 |
| 9:17 AM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and doubling base storage to 512GB, shipping from March 11 |
| 9:16 AM • | Apple: Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits |
| 9:11 AM • | Apple: Apple unveils the M5 Pro and M5 Max, offering a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, a next-generation up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and more |
| 9:07 AM • | Apple: Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage |
| 7:55 AM • | Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, adjusting consumption when asked |
| 7:40 AM • | Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: Activist investor Elliott invests $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks; PINS jumps 7%+ |
| 7:30 AM • | Lawfare: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes |
| 7:15 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Grow Therapy, which connects patients with therapists covered by their insurance, raised a $150M Series D at a $3B valuation and hits $1B+ in annual revenue |
| 6:35 AM • | Chainalysis: Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli airstrikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.78B+ |
| 6:15 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: in the EU, US criticism over censorship has been met with disbelief and anger, and some Big Tech lobbyists acknowledge US accusations are overstated |
| 6:01 AM • | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Google unveils Google Home updates to fix many annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini describe what it sees in live camera feeds |
| 5:40 AM • | Lee Jae-Lim / Korea Joongang Daily: Sources: Samsung Foundry has frequently shifted the timeline for its plant in Taylor, Texas; Samsung delayed mass production plans from H2 2026 to early 2027 |
| 5:25 AM • | SvD: Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they view private videos from Ray-Ban Meta glasses, like bathroom visits; ex-Meta staff say faces are blurred |
| 5:10 AM • | Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: Senator Ron Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee's top Democrat, vows to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after Trump barred Anthropic from government work |
| 1:20 AM • | Dylan Butts / CNBC: Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification |
| 11:55 PM • | Eliot Chen / The Wire China: A look at the US DOJ's December 2025 indictment that alleged a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export $160M+ in advanced Nvidia AI chips to China |
| 11:30 PM • | Sam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says that “the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI” and that no private company should decide the fate of the world |
| 11:25 PM • | George Hammond / Financial Times: Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals” |
| 11:10 PM • | Katherine Li / Business Insider: Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal on Friday “looked opportunistic and sloppy” but OpenAI was “trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome” |
| 9:50 PM • | Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Ayar Labs, which aims to replace the copper wiring in semiconductors with fiber optics, raised a $500M Series E led by Neuberger Berman at a $3.8B valuation |
| 9:35 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI chatbot on the web for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini |
| 9:20 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: AWS warns of service disruptions and “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drone strikes damaged two facilities in the UAE and one in Bahrain |
| 9:10 PM • | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation |
| 8:15 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to their AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the contract |
| 7:55 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Anthropic brings Claude's memory feature to free users, after launching it for paid users in October 2025; users can pause the feature or delete all memories |
| 7:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: X and xAI are set to repay ~$17.5B of debt in full; X took on ~$12.5B of debt during Musk's purchase, and xAI borrowed $5B via bonds and loans in June |
| 6:30 PM • | Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online: MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, above $670M est., net income down 2% YoY to $15.5M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted EPS below est.; MDB drops 20%+ |
| 6:25 PM • | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech |
| 6:05 PM • | Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Filing: Tokyo-based PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at an up to $13.4B valuation in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 each |
| 5:55 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2B in February, doubling from three months earlier, with ~60% coming from new and existing corporate customers |
| 5:50 PM • | Reuters: The US Treasury Department, State Department, and Federal Housing Finance Agency stop using Anthropic's AI products; the State Department will switch to OpenAI |
| 5:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the US considers limiting Chinese companies to 75K Nvidia H200 chips each, less than 50% of what some want; AMD's MI325 would also count toward the cap |
| 4:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at ~1% of ordinary levels |
| 4:00 PM • | Vignesh R / Tech Funding News: New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z |
| 3:40 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases its open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks |
| 2:20 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to start March 2, as markets were rattled by the strikes on Iran |
| 2:00 PM • | David Heaney / UploadVR: ByteDance details its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch in 2026 with micro-OLED panels with 4,000 pixels per inch, and unveils Pico OS 6, its revamped XR OS |
| 1:30 PM • | New York Times: A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has $6B+ in global contracts, had ~$2B in 2025 revenue, has raised nearly $7B, and is valued at ~$31B |
| 12:35 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Anthropic's $60B+ in funding from 200+ investors, half of which came just in February, is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon |
| 12:15 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October |
| 11:35 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts |
| 10:40 AM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art |
| 10:30 AM • | Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity |
| 10:05 AM • | Jessica Tillipman: A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the “any lawful use” standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal |
| 9:45 AM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data |
| 9:35 AM • | The Information: Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards |
| 9:09 AM • | Apple: Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes |
| 9:06 AM • | Apple: Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 17e, offering a 60Hz 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, MagSafe, and a 48MP Fusion camera, shipping from March 11 |
| 8:50 AM • | Cristina Cueto / DatacenterDynamics: AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 |
| 8:25 AM • | Reuters: Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US |
| 8:15 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities |
| 7:40 AM • | Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: Qualcomm forms a “strategic coalition” to launch 6G in 2029 and unveils FastConnect 8800, an “AI-native” Wi-Fi 8-ready NIC that doubles peak speeds over Wi-Fi 7 |
| 7:30 AM • | Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Anthropic says “a fix has been implemented” at 15:25 UTC after elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and some API methods starting at 11:49 UTC |
| 7:15 AM • | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the startup will void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death” |
| 7:00 AM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: ASML CTO Marco Pieters says ASML plans to expand beyond EUV into advanced packaging, bonding, and connecting, and is building AI-based machine inspection tools |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: The US-led Iran bombing campaign causes longer delivery times for Amazon, Shein, and others in the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets |
| 6:40 AM • | Claude: Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude with one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above $71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a $465.2M net loss in 2024, after its IPO |
| 5:55 AM • | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more |
| 4:55 AM • | Foreign Affairs: Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns |
| 4:30 AM • | Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters |
| 4:20 AM • | Zack Abrams / The Block: Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine |
| 4:00 AM • | Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification: Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company leadership to preserve “optionality” |
| 2:25 AM • | Julian Chokkattu / Wired: A look at three Lenovo concept devices at MWC 2026: a modular laptop with swappable parts, a gaming handheld with a folding display, and a dual-screen 3D PC |
| 1:50 AM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Lenovo's Motorola partners with the GrapheneOS Foundation to preinstall the privacy-focused, “de-Googled” version of Android on upcoming Motorola smartphones |
| 12:20 AM • | Sharon Klyne / Bloomberg: Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus signs a multi-billion deal with an unnamed customer to build a Melbourne data center with ~18,400 Nvidia GB300 chips |
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