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Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-5 Alibaba AI

A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000+ companies since 2002 (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 Europe Startup Munich

Grammarly is offering an AI-powered tool called “Expert Review” that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission (www.wired.com)
2026-3-5 AI

Oslo-based Unleash, which develops tools that let enterprises manage risks in AI-accelerated software development, raised a $35M Series B led by One Peak (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-5 AI

In its latest quarterly report, Capcom says “PC sales account for approximately 50% of total unit sales, and we expect this ratio to continue increasing” (www.pcgamer.com)
2026-3-5

A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 Startup

Officials say NATO's main focus at its July summit will be on investments into drones and AI systems rather than primarily conventional defense hardware (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 AI Drone

Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 Startup AI Sweden

OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5

Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and Richard Branson among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-3-5 AI Bannon

Sources: Nvidia has reallocated manufacturing capacity at TSMC away from making H200 chips intended for Chinese market to its latest Vera Rubin products (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 China Manufacturing Nvidia

The US Central Command says US military forces are using a range of AI tools to quickly manage enormous amounts of data for operations against Iran (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 AI Iran

Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-5 Microsoft

Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-3-5 AI Apple

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (dailydot.com)
2026-3-5 AI

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” (statescoop.com)
2026-3-5 chatbot Ban New York

A Nuclear Reactor Backed By Bill Gates Gets Federal Approval To Start Building (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Bill Gates

A study found OpenAI's ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-3-5

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5 IPO 4Q

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 Pentagon

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (www.ft.com)
2026-3-5 AI

Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Google chatbot

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (apnews.com)
2026-3-5 Twitter Elon Musk

OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-5

Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-5

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-5 Google

New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-5 Mexico Zuckerberg

Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-5 France Startup Quantum

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