Tootfinder

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 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/jeff-bezos-ai-fund-projec…

Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I.
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.

Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech.
I do believe the Bluesky people really do want…

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Care about human life the way a Westerner cares about their bank account balance.

20 Tage offline: Internetsperre im Iran jetzt die längste der Landesgeschichte
Erst im Januar hat die Islamische Republik das Internet länger gesperrt als je zuvor. Nun wurde dieser Rekord gebrochen – mit dramatischen Folgen.

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

from my link log —
Seeing types where others don't: static type inference for jq.
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/03/06/seeing-types-where-others-dont.html
saved 2026-03-18

:neofox_drake_dislike: Louder for the people in the back!
:neofox_drake_like: Quieter for the people taking a nap. 🤫

🌼🌼🌼

The metaverse VR (legless virtual reality environment by Meta) will be shut down on June 15. https://communityforums.atmeta.com/blog/AnnouncementsBlog/updates-to-your-meta-quest-experience-in-2026/1369435
Metas Realit…

Trump's Iran war is ruinous for US debt as well as everything else
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/20/donald-trump-us-debt-40-trillion-iran-war/

RE: https://piaille.fr/@nholzschuch/116256978172936487
Woohooo!!!!!

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113510557710417563
Nun hat eine Spiegel-Recherche ergeben das die CIA von der Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Sprengung im Voraus wusste. Selbstverständlich hatte sie nichts mit der Bildung und oder Ausstattung des Ukrainischen Teams …

Good article with lots of quotable quotes. Here’s one:
“Lines of code, number of [pull requests], these are liabilities. These are not measures of engineering excellence.”
That’s a big “well duh” for anyone who’s been in the thick of the software engineering process for more than 15 seconds — but a whole lot of folks are about to learn this the hard way, as the article lays out.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

Email: USAGM names Christopher Wallace, a former Newsmax news director and former Fox News producer, as deputy director of Voice of America (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/politics/voa-deputy-director-wallace.html

Newsmax Executive Named as Voice of America’s Deputy
The appointment raised concerns that the Trump administration would try to erode the news group’s independence after picking a deputy who had been at conservative news channels for around 20 years.

«So schleusen Angreifer Schadsoftware über gefälschte Rechnungen ein
Cyberkriminelle verschicken derzeit vermehrt gefälschte Rechnungen per E-Mail und schleusen so gezielt Schadsoftware in Unternehmen ein. […] Anhänge als Zip-Dateien zunächst zwar harmlos wirken, im Hintergrund jedoch schädliche Javascript-Skripte nachladen»
Ein Argument mehr weshalb Verschlüsselung mit Sicherheit und nicht mit Geheimhaltung zu tun hat.
🤷

Let's hope for a guilty verdict, not a pay-off, er, "settlement."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merriam-webster-openai-encyclopedia-brittanica-lawsuit/

The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

About a thousand people in front of me at the library voting early for next week's election. Danish democracy clearly in rude health...

US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 9% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-tech-execs-smuggled-nvidia-chips-t…

U.S. prosecutors charge Super Micro Computer employees with smuggling Nvidia chips to China
The U.S. government has been trying to crack down on illegal shipments of top-tier Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China.

Westerners when Brown people are mass murdered daily by Israel/USA.
🤷‍♂️
Westerners when they have to pay more for oil.
🤬
#WesternValues

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk,
a designation usually reserved for foreign adversaries,
which bars companies that work with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic as well.
Anthropic is challenging this designation in court.
https://

Anthropic to challenge DOD's supply-chain label in court | TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply-chain risk. He claims most Anthropic customers are unaffected by the label.

Integration in Codex: OpenAI übernimmt das Start-up Astral
OpenAI baut mit der Übernahme des Python-Tool-Entwicklers Astral das Engagement im Bereich Coding weiter aus und will seine Codex-Plattform weiterentwickeln.

f*** it—time to nap

Judge Says He'll Bar RFK Move to Cut Gender Care for Minors | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rfk-gender/2026/03/19/id/1250150/

don’t get sensitivity to corn, do not recommend 😢

In which I go to a Baroque-music concert, rejoice at the lack of amplification, and exhort the classical-music community to avoid the use of electricity: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/03/16/Pure-Sound-Please

from my link log —
Bertrand Meyer remembers Tony Hoare.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
saved 2026-03-18

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
Tony Hoare at the LASER summer school, September 2007 (All photographs in this article are by the author) Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s major achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, which I am going to try to summarize, not pretending to get anywhere close ... Read more

Hachette cancels the US release of the novel Shy Girl and is discontinuing its UK edition after fans claimed the author relied heavily on AI to write the book (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books/shy-girl-book-ai.html

Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”

Europe is as occupied as the USA is.
Sad, but true.

Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/alibaba-tencen…

Isn’t the USA amazing? Anyone* can become president, even a pedophile and rapist.
* Just not women, historically.

A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/judge-…

Judge will rule against Kennedy’s declaration on gender-affirming care
A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. 

Brasilien verschärft den Schutz von Minderjährigen im Internet
Ein gerade in Kraft getretenes neues Digitalgesetz führt Altersverifikationen ein und verbietet Endlosvideos, um Jugendliche vor Social-Media-Sucht zu schützen.

Science! :blobcatscience:

The similarities between VR and AI are actually really striking; both are technologies that are amazing for a few narrow niche use cases and completely unsuitable for anything else.
But they are both heavily marketed and hyped exactly for the use cases where they suck and make no sense.

John Lithgow Almost Quit 'Harry Potter' Over JK Rowling's Anti-Trans Views
https://deadline.com/2026/03/john-lithgow-considered-quitting-harry-potter-jk-rowling-1236761097/

Trump was not counting on Iran’s powerful thoughts and prayers when he said we had “destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability”
Iran’s powerful thoughts and prayers just hit an f35 that wandered and the oil refinery in Haifa, Occupied Palestine.

Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/white-house-rollout-ai-framework

White House eyes Friday rollout for AI framework
The White House is expected to send Congress its ideas for regulating AI on Friday, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that
the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

Identitätsdiebstahl im Netz: Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes zeigt Ex-Mann an
Die Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Christian Ulmen. Er soll sie in sozialen Netzen traumatisierend hintergangen haben.

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on b…

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116252080653238272
“It should come as no surprise that an AI-powered war launched by Israel and the United States has proven so destructive so quickly. Israel, after all, has spent years deploying all manner of …

Iran war-induced fertilizer shortage threatens farm state Republicans
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/iran-war-fertilizer-shortage-2026-elections-strait-hormuz.html

Some day billionaires will have all the money.
Which will then be worth zero because they can’t buy anything as nothing will be made anymore.

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/anthropic-house-homeland-security-ai

Scoop: Anthropic meets with House Homeland Security behind closed doors
Anthropic is speaking with lawmakers on national security and AI as it sues the government over its "supply chain risk" designation.

Letter: The GOP candidate in Utah's new District 1 is going to have to actually earn the vote of the people.
Republicans must find that so distasteful.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2026/03/19/letter-utahs-district-1-candidate/

KI-Chips: Samsung und AMD erweitern ihre strategische Zusammenarbeit
Samsung und AMD unterzeichnen eine Absichtserklärung zu KI-Speichern der nächsten Generation und sondieren eine Foundry-Partnerschaft.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116257702104102298
But guess who already has nukes? Hint: it’s the country currently committing genocide.

Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/ai-enterprise-revenue-anthropic-openai

The AI spending flip
With the way AI companies are spending, they have no choice but to generate more revenue — and quickly.

Somebody please invent a programming language that can’t be generated by LLMs

Every time I read the news:
Rich white men doing messed up shit again

PowerToys 0.98: Bessere Performance und neues Dock für Befehlspalette
Die Entwickler der PowerToys versprechen für die frisch veröffentlichte Version 0.98 bessere Geschwindigkeit an allen Ecken und Enden.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
“Iran is being decimated”
as the U.S. and Israel target its ballistic missile and nuclear programs from the air
-- But meaningful regime change will require a
🔥 “ground component,”
Netanyahu added that the Iranian people must ultimately “rise to the moment.”

Netanyahu says Iran is being 'decimated' but revolution requires 'ground component'
Netanyahu's comments came after President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said earlier that he would not send U.S. troops to the Middle East.

RE: https://freefree.ps/@faab64/116257289388857344
Iran was just supposed to lie there and take it. Just like all of Trump’s other victims.

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.

hello moto

EuGH-Urteil: Polizei darf biometrische Daten nicht auf Vorrat erfassen
Die systematische Abnahme von Fingerabdrücken bei Verdächtigen ohne Einzelfallprüfung verstößt gegen EU-Recht. Strafe bei Verweigerung ist nur bedingt zulässig.

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 (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/361791/microsoft-mai-image-2-text-image-model-review

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected
Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.

Lifehack, use this one simple trick discovered by a cat dad*:
Instead of spending hundreds or thousands on “agents”, just use your own brain!
*it’s me, I’m cat dad

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Wer war Opa wirklich? Diese Frage lässt sich jetzt vielleicht online beantworten. Mehr als 80 Jahre nach Kriegsende ermöglicht das US-Nationalarchiv eine historische Spurensuche der besonderen Art.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11217608?wt_mc=sm.re

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…

RE: https://wetdry.world/@kuriko/116251188885013634
Let's go gambling, little baby!!

So we have mini Aussie shepherd service dog (for gluten detection!) and that breed has a lot of funny quirks like when he acts submissive he is doing this “grin” which is sort of hilarious and scary at the same time

Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Payward, parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has put its IPO plans on hold
Kraken's parent company filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November regarding the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

Claros, which aims to cut data center energy losses by using voltage regulators that provide power directly to servers' main processors, raised a $30M seed (Ben Geman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/claros-seed-data-center-energy-loss

Exclusive: $30M in seed money to cut data center energy loss
The AI industry is desperate for every electron, and regulators don't want data center boom to strain grids.

How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/wh…

Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
Kyle Chayka writes about the concept of taste as a Silicon Valley buzzword and as a profit driver for A.I. developers.

Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is "different" from other companies' (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/pentagon-anthropic-foreig…

Pentagon: Anthropic's foreign workforce poses security risks
The Defense Department is raising red flags about a key element of the AI industry — its reliance on global talent — as it moves to dismiss Anthropic's lawsuit.

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/18/busright-bags-…

BusRight bags $30M to ensure school buses always arrive, right on time - SiliconANGLE
BusRight bags $30M to ensure school buses always arrive, right on time - SiliconANGLE

Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/19/alphabet-sells-majority-sta…

Alphabet sells majority stake in Verily
Alphabet will be a significant minority investor in Verily but no longer have a controlling stake.

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's "wait-and-see approach" to AI risks in the financial sector poses "serious harm" to the UK (Kalyeena Makortoff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/

Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Silicon Valley Musters Behind-the-Scenes Support for Anthropic
Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.

A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-bre…

US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.

MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/new

Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…

Exclusive: Beautiful.ai gets $45M from General Catalyst's CVF
The company is one of several presentation startups looking to gain market share.

A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by
Smith is scheduled to be sentenced on July 29…

A US grand jury indicted three people, including two former Google engineers, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to Pixel's Tensor processor (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-con…

Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI does purchase "commercially available information" that can be used to track people's location history (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-tr…

Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/polymark…

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 (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/alibaba-r…

Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/ai-cry…

Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/signals-creator-is-helping-encrypt-meta-ai/

Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture.

Director Coerte Voorhees says he is using AI to feature Val Kilmer in "a significant part" in an indie film, with the cooperation of the late actor's estate (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/val-kilmer-ai-film-as-deep…

Val Kilmer in 'As Deep As the Grave, His Performance was AI Generated
First look at Val Kilmer in his new film "As Deep As the Grave." His performance was AI generated.

Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/18/paraform-ai-recruiting-series-b

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 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-linked project in Paris, as it pivots toward the US (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/394238/sec-approves-nasdaq-tokenized-equities-trad…

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Pro, its new 1T-parameter foundation model, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which the company says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/xiaomi-stuns…

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 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B valuation, and reports 100 clients (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/ai…

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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide incorporation regime that it says takes 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18…

Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kalshi-cinc…

Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-acqu…

Amazon Acquires Robotics Startup, Boosting Efforts to Streamline Deliveries
Amazon has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed, a deal that could help the commerce and logistics giant deliver packages to shoppers’ doors more efficiently. Based in Zurich and formerly known as Swiss-Mile, Rivr was valued at $110 million in an August ...

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 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-meta-rogue…

Inside Meta, a Rogue AI Agent Triggers Security Alert
A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led to the exposure of sensitive company and user data to Meta employees who didn’t have authorization to access the data. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the incident, while adding ...

Uber's market cap fell to ~$150B, down ~25% in six months, as investors weigh robotaxi disruption, perceiving it as a two-horse race between Waymo and Tesla (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…