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Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 Google AI

Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 AI Jeff Bezos

Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (www.wired.com)
2026-3-20 Google AI Chrome

Oasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities, such as AI bots and automated work tools, raised $120M, bringing its total funding to $190M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Facebook AI Zuckerberg

Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 AI

DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-20 AI Adobe Asset

PwC US Senior Partner Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and PwC plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (t.co)
2026-3-20 AI

Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z (fortune.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-19 AI Layoffs

Why Python programming for AI is important today (www.gradus.live)
2026-3-19 Python AI programming

Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY ~$41.3B, below ~$42B est., and net income down 67% YoY to ~$2.4B, as it seeks to monetize its expensive AI push (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Alibaba AI

Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (tech.eu)
2026-3-19 AI Paris

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” (www.anthropic.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Google AI

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (www.thurrott.com)
2026-3-19 Android IOS AI Browser

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Permalink to NanoClaw and Docker Sandboxes: Building the Next Generation of Secure AI Agents (sdtimes.com)
2026-3-19 Docker AI

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