Tech

Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-17 Amazon

Sources: Google is in talks with Envicool and other Chinese companies about buying data center liquid cooling equipment, amid a tight supply of such parts (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-17 China Google

Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-3-17 China Nvidia

Sources: KKR, Blackstone, and other investors have turned down some data center debt because of insufficient insurance against risks like natural disasters (www.ft.com)
2026-3-17 Insurance

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-17 Robot

Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more (www.politico.com)
2026-3-17 Trump Europe AI YouTube Netflix

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says memory chip makers are expanding capacity but are unlikely to match demand until around 2030; basic wafer supply lags by 20%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17

The UK plans to spend £1B+ on quantum computing research over four years, including funding companies in pharmaceuticals, financial services, and energy (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 Energy Quantum

EU countries introduce sanctions on hacking groups, including Iran's Emennet Pasargad, which hacked magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023, and two Chinese companies (www.politico.eu)
2026-3-17 China Iran

Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 Germany Retail Equity

Samsung says it is winding down sales of its $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea and the US once it clears inventory, after just three months on the market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 Korea Samsung

Hydropower Line From Quebec Could Power a Million NYC Homes (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 Quebec

Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-17 AI Yahoo

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (www.interconnects.ai)
2026-3-17 AI

Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks like document editing, currently in beta (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-17 Alibaba AI

Nvidia says game developers have full “artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material (www.pcgamer.com)
2026-3-17 AI Nvidia

New 'Vibe Coded' AI Translation Tool Splits the Video Game Preservation Community (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 AI

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (mistral.ai)
2026-3-17

A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers trying to win a Polymarket bet if he doesn't change his report on a missile impact in Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
2026-3-17 Israel

Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-17 AI

How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (www.techradar.com)
2026-3-17 Robot Paris

In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo told OpenAI staff not to be distracted by “side quests” and said Anthropic's success should serve as a “wake-up call” (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-17

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-17 Robot

'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 Robot

Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-17 U.S. Intelligence Virginia

Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral and will develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
2026-3-17 Nvidia

Nvidia Bets On OpenClaw, But Adds a Security Layer Via NemoClaw (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 Nvidia

Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-3-17

Manus introduces My Computer, a desktop application that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and applications (manus.im)
2026-3-17 AI

History's 10 Little-Remembered Acts of Charity (listverse.com)
2026-3-17

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