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Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…

AMD to Backstop $300 Million Crusoe Loan, Following Nvidia Playbook
Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and ...

Millions of Americans Are Going Uninsured Following Expiration of ACA Subsidies (Anna Wilde Mathews/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/millions-of-americans-are-going-uninsured-following-expiration-of-aca-subsidies-0051240d?st=Vx6dtW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p36#a260319p36

There is white stuff falling from the sky again! My wife asks, "can we pretend that it's pollen?" 🤣
Alas, no... this is just "spring" in #Vermont.
The irony, of course, is that I'm starting the morning at a mechanic getting the snow tires swapped off for the summer tires on one of our cars. 😃

The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…

Why is Brussels ignoring EU’s 75-year anniversary?

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus Valuation
As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.

Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/17/move-garages-startups-now-hatc…

In SF’s newest gold rush, startups are competing for mansions
With VC money flowing, the new trend across San Francisco is leasing multimillion-dollar hacker houses.

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system "Project Sunrise" (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/blu…

West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection laws by failing to implement tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored on iCloud (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/technology/apple-w…

Venice, which develops identity security software, emerges from stealth after raising a $25M Series A led by IVP, following an $8M seed round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sk5qcux00we

Rotem Lurie raises $25 million Series A for Venice, an identity security startup backed by Wiz founders
The Israeli company replaces static enterprise permissions with dynamic access control. 

Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-creator-pay-instagram-tiktok-youtube-faceboo…

Meta will pay Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook
Meta is offering monthly guaranteed pay and boosted reach for creators to start posting on Facebook's Reels.