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Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (www.wired.com)
2026-3-18 Quantum

Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Samsung AMD

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Alibaba AI

Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI Nvidia

The UK's FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18

Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom (sfstandard.com)
2026-3-18 AI Hacker San Francisco

Banks start offloading $18B debt tied to the $55B buyout of EA; sources say EA told potential investors AI could let gaming companies cut engineering workforces (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon Microsoft

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-18 Linux Google AI

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Samsung

A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-18 Apple YouTube

Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon

Companies are starting to track employees' AI token use and tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments, and to prevent potential token abuse (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-18 AI

AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 AI Drone Ukraine

Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are “not aware of specifics” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 China Nvidia

Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” (www.wired.com)
2026-3-18 AI Pentagon

Apple pushes first Background Security Improvements update to fix WebKit flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-18 Apple

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (www.axios.com)
2026-3-18

Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-3-18 AI Pentagon

A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon

Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 China Nvidia

Turquoise Health, which offers a healthcare pricing and payments platform, raised a $40M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $95.3M (www.axios.com)
2026-3-18

Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 JPMorgan

Arizona Charges Kalshi With Illegal Gambling Operation (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18

An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30+ countries (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-18

Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Apple

SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Commodity Asset CFTC

Rural Ohioans Seek To Ban Data Centers Through Constitutional Amendment (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 Ban

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