Tech

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Jeff Bezos

How AI startups and founders use “taste” as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (www.newyorker.com)
2026-3-20 Startup AI

Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund to buy companies in industrial sectors and revamp them with AI, in a Project Prometheus-linked effort (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 AI Jeff Bezos

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-3-20

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 (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-20

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 (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-3-20 AI Conspiracy

Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20

US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-20 China Nvidia

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 Browser

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-20 Nvidia

4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20

Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 Alphabet

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' (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 China Pentagon

Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 AI

Navia discloses data breach impacting 2.7 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20

Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-20 Amazon Startup Robot Switzerland

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-3-20 AI chatbot

Rapper Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Over Use of Police Raid Footage In His Music Videos (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20

New ‘PolyShell' flaw allows unauthenticated RCE on Magento e-stores (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 Google AI

Google Details New 24-Hour Process To Sideload Unverified Android Apps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Android Google

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 AI Jeff Bezos

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20

Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (www.wired.com)
2026-3-20 Google AI Chrome

Get Luminar Neo lifetime access and a full bundle for just $79.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

Meta Backtracks, Will Keep Horizon Worlds VR Support 'For Existing Games' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 VR

Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-20 Android Google

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