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Sources: President Trump met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on March 3 before publicly admonishing banks over the GENIUS Act, echoing Coinbase's position (www.politico.com)
2026-3-4 Trump Coinbase

An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for “unclassified networks” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-4

Asia's smaller chip companies are joining their bigger peers in hiking prices as robust AI demand fuels capex, projected to rise 25% YoY to over $136B in 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-3-4 Asia AI

Sea's NY-listed shares fell as much as 27% on March 3, their worst intraday drop since 2023, after reporting Q4 net income up 73% YoY to $410.9M, vs. $442M est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-4 4Q

The UK government commits an initial £40M to an AI research lab, modeled on its DARPA-inspired ARIA, seeking breakthroughs in science, healthcare, and transport (www.ft.com)
2026-3-4 AI

Security researchers successfully prompted the AI behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an “unrestricted therapeutic”, and more (www.axios.com)
2026-3-4 AI

Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-4 Ban

10 Movie Adaptations That Ruined Everything for Some Fans (listverse.com)
2026-3-4

10 Wars That Sound Made Up (but Absolutely Happened) (listverse.com)
2026-3-4

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 iPhone

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a higher retention than OpenAI, emphasizing its “mission” as a way to reinforce staff loyalty and fend off competitors' offers (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-4

TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-4

OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit (www.techdirt.com)
2026-3-4

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI chatbot on the web for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-4 AI chatbot

KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M (www.mobihealthnews.com)
2026-3-4

OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 GitHub

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (www.wired.com)
2026-3-4 Google

Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D, with $50M coming from the UK government's National Wealth Fund; Nvidia's NVentures also invested (sifted.eu)
2026-3-4 Startup Nvidia

Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games (www.ft.com)
2026-3-4 Tencent Finland

As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-4 Iran

Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-4 Intel

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-4 Alibaba

CISA flags VMware Aria Operations RCE flaw as exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-4 VMware

Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-4

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-4 Trump

In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not “get to make operational decisions” regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-4

Paint maker giant AkzoNobel confirms cyberattack on U.S. site (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-4

TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-4 Oracle

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-4 GitHub

Google Chrome Is Switching To a Two-Week Release Cycle (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-4 Google Chrome

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