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An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of “hostile architecture” (thatshubham.com)
2026-3-19

Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Samsung

CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool to manage staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (tech.eu)
2026-3-19 AI Paris

Sources: European chip importers are tapping backup stores and paying higher air freight costs as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern cargo routes (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-19 Europe Iran

Pardoned Nikola Fraudster Is Raising Funds For AI-Powered Planes He Claims Will Reshape Aviation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 AI

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-19

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate “one-person companies”, startups run by a single founder with AI's help (restofworld.org)
2026-3-19 China Startup AI

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Horizon Worlds will remain in VR for the “foreseeable future”, after Meta said Quest headset users will lose access from June 15 (www.lowpass.cc)
2026-3-19 VR

Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (www.ft.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (www.scmp.com)
2026-3-19 Alibaba AI

Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-3-19 Trump U.S. AI Senate

Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (x.com)
2026-3-19 Google IPO AI

Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” design canvas and a reasoning design agent (blog.google)
2026-3-19 NLP Google AI

AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-19 Apple

Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Android China Apple

FBI Is Buying Location Data To Track US Citizens, Director Confirms (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 FBI

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (www.wired.com)
2026-3-19 chatbot Walmart

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” (www.anthropic.com)
2026-3-19 AI

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-19 LinkedIn

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Google AI

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering” (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-19 Italy

Aura confirms data breach exposing 900,000 marketing contacts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (www.thurrott.com)
2026-3-19 Android IOS AI Browser

Cloudflare Appeals Piracy Shield Fine, Hopes To Kill Italy's Site-Blocking Law (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Italy

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Google

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