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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

Porsche profits crash after costly EV strategy U-turn (www.rt.com)
2026-3-12

US ‘not worth fighting for' if it targeted Iranian school – Tucker Carlson (www.rt.com)
2026-3-12 Iran

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

Food Inflation in America (wolfstreet.com)
2026-3-12 U.S. Inflation

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

Iranian-Americans Want Diplomacy to Triumph over War – NIAC (www.juancole.com)
2026-3-12 U.S. Iran

The Loneliness Epidemic in Trump's America, and How Communities are Forming (www.juancole.com)
2026-3-12 Trump U.S.

The War is the Message: When did We Stop Asking Why? (www.juancole.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

Forget the island: Jeffrey Epstein's secret war for Libya's billions (www.rt.com)
2026-3-12 Libya

The biggest window into Australian defence acquisition has closed (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-12 Australia

Australia's new defence acquisition organisation must be forward looking (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-12 Australia

Australia steps up reliance on uncrewed surface vessels (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-3-12 Australia

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

COP31 still offers Australia and the Pacific a chance to reset global climate ambition (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-3-12 Australia Climate

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