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Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-20 Amazon

Microsoft: March Windows updates break Teams, OneDrive sign-ins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 Microsoft

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (decrypt.co)
2026-3-20 Google Microsoft

Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-20 Amazon Startup Robot Switzerland

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

Google Details New 24-Hour Process To Sideload Unverified Android Apps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Android Google

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

Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-20 Android Google

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

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent $800K+ on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia page, after his 2009 release from jail (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Google

Microsoft Considers Legal Action Over $50 Billion Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Amazon Microsoft

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-20 India Google Apple

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-20 Google Tax California

Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-19 Uber

CISA urges US orgs to secure Microsoft Intune systems after Stryker breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

Critical Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool to manage staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

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

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

Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Google

Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-19 Facebook YouTube Instagram

Sources: Microsoft is weighing legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching OpenAI's Microsoft agreement (t.co)
2026-3-19 Amazon Microsoft

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud 'a Pile of Shit', Yet Approved It Anyway (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

Researchers from Google, iVerify, and Lookout discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russian state-sponsored groups to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (www.wired.com)
2026-3-19 IOS Russia Google Ukraine

Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (www.propublica.org)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 Google

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon Microsoft

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-18 Linux Google AI

A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-18 Apple YouTube

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