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Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Startup AI

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Mexico

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to promote integrating more tech and AI into US children's education (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Trump AI Robot Education

Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Facebook

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 YouTube

SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26

The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-24 Energy

A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-22 AI

A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-21

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Jeff Bezos

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

Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-19

The US goods trade deficit hit a record $1.2T in 2025, driven by a 60% rise in imports of computers and chips to $450B+ since President Trump's inauguration (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 Trump

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: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 China Singapore

How Trump's opposition to state-level AI regulation has driven a wedge in GOP, killing Florida's proposed AI Bill of Rights, which was backed by Gov. DeSantis (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-17 Trump AI Republican

How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-16 Warren Buffett Bill Gates

Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-16 Autonomous Car

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-15 AI Iran

Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-13 AI

Sources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-13

Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-12 AI Mathematics

How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few Chinese components as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-11 China Drone Ukraine

Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-11 Senate

A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-9 Australia AI London

How some candidates for the midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-9 AI

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-8

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-6 AI

Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-4 China AI

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