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In the Shadow of War, Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinians Intensifies (www.juancole.com)
2026-3-19 Israel

Egypt slow rolled Solar, EVs and now Israel has Cut off its Fossil Gas amid Iran War (www.juancole.com)
2026-3-19 Israel Solar Iran Egypt

Hegseth on Iran War Criticism: The sooner David Ellison takes over CNN, the better (www.juancole.com)
2026-3-19 Iran

Pardoned Nikola Fraudster Is Raising Funds For AI-Powered Planes He Claims Will Reshape Aviation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 AI

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-19

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate “one-person companies”, startups run by a single founder with AI's help (restofworld.org)
2026-3-19 China Startup AI

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Horizon Worlds will remain in VR for the “foreseeable future”, after Meta said Quest headset users will lose access from June 15 (www.lowpass.cc)
2026-3-19 VR

Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19

India denies Iran seeking release of seized tankers (www.rt.com)
2026-3-19 India Iran

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (www.ft.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Oscar-winning documentary violated children's privacy laws – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2026-3-19

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (www.scmp.com)
2026-3-19 Alibaba AI

Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-3-19 Trump U.S. AI Senate

ANZMIN shows the Australia–New Zealand alliance has focus and potential (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-19 Australia New Zealand

Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (x.com)
2026-3-19 Google IPO AI

Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” design canvas and a reasoning design agent (blog.google)
2026-3-19 NLP Google AI

Hormuz disruption highlights importance of food-security resilience (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-19

AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-19 Apple

Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Android China Apple

Style and statecraft: Fashion, diplomacy and the audiences we're missing (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-19

Australia's fuel crisis? We told you so (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-19 Australia

Japan's bid to build a “de-Chinafied” rare earth supply system – with Australia and Brazil on-board (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-19 Australia Japan Brazil

Military drone racing is becoming a training ground (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-19 Drone

Beggars In Disguise: United States Returns To China For An Encore (newmatilda.com)
2026-3-19 China

You Get What You Get: Real Stories From The US Presidential Debate (newmatilda.com)
2026-3-19

President Donald J. Trump Is A Convicted Felon (newmatilda.com)
2026-3-19 Trump

The United States Of Irony: The Self-Described ‘Most Pro-Guns President In US History' Just Got Shot (newmatilda.com)
2026-3-19

FBI Is Buying Location Data To Track US Citizens, Director Confirms (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 FBI

Class Act: America… We Need To Talk (newmatilda.com)
2026-3-19 U.S.

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