Tech

Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 Google

Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-12 AI Mathematics

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 Microsoft AI

10 Iconic Masterpieces Attacked by Pure Pettiness (listverse.com)
2026-3-12

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI companies, after recently adding Perplexity to its mobile OS (www.ft.com)
2026-3-12 Mobile Samsung AI

SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since November 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI ties grows; on March 9, it closed down 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (www.ft.com)
2026-3-12

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 China Startup

Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 Alibaba AI

Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-3-12 China Robot Education

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-12 Blockchain

GFiber and Astound Broadband To Join Forces (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-12

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-12 Amazon AI

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
2026-3-12 Microsoft Apple MacBook

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (9to5google.com)
2026-3-12 Europe U.S. Google Samsung Latin America

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-3-12 China

Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week (9to5mac.com)
2026-3-12 IOS iPhone Apple iPad

History's Ten Most Lopsided Battles Ever (listverse.com)
2026-3-12

The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-12 CFTC

Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 India Apple Manufacturing

Why Falling Cats Always Seem To Land On Their Feet (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-12

Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-12 Japan Uber Tokyo Nissan

SEC filing: Oracle sets aside an additional $500M for restructuring, bringing FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI tools (www.ft.com)
2026-3-12 AI Oracle

Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-12

Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-12 Google

Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month (www.gamedeveloper.com)
2026-3-12

Binance.US named Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-12

Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (www.axios.com)
2026-3-12 Startup

Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it's on track to hit annual recurring revenue of $1B by the end of the year (www.forbes.com)
2026-3-12

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-12 ICO

Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B (www.newcomer.co)
2026-3-12

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