Tootfinder

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

Why Dallas Cowboys Must Make Trade Push For Steelers' Alex Highsmith https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-make-trade-push-pittsburgh-steelers-alex-highsmith

White House Offers New Details on Its Push to Ban Housing Investors (Rebecca Picciotto/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-offers-new-details-on-its-push-to-ban-housing-investors-97fb1829?st=FymPTN&reflink=article_imessage_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p114#a260219p114

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning
as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud
MAGA rep Bryan Steil’s "Make Elections Great Again "bill would ban universal voting by mail
and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day.
It would ban ranked-choice v…

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

"Palantir needs the SEC and investors to know that it may not be able to recruit, hire, or retain talent if immigration regulations and restrictions tighten or if visa caps are imposed."
Palantir happily helped Trump's deportation push—and screwed itself
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/18/2369352/-Palantir-happily-helped-Trump-s-deportation-push-and-screwed-itself

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
The push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
-- Nature [paywall]
-- But 'crickets' in the mainstream media
@…

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

Donald Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/101eb9c7-18f5-43e2-97eb-3fa1cf28f213
Archive https://archive.ph/DlT49
Trump wants AI, but it is getting harder to get that done...
Via @… on Bluesky

Had an #acting #coaching not breathe during the scene unless they 1) needed air, or 2) could make the other character do something by using their breath. The push-pull between the characters suddenly took sharper shape, stakes raised, all by connecting with the need for air.

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-psychedelics-brain.html "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake: New study
A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116257102307053080
There's no fucking mystery here (the Verge doesn't imply one, the article is well written, Im just saying aloud) - there is zero fiscal incentive for automakers to PUSH low end models.
Auto…

I do not want to talk about what companies want. Why they want to push for AI (even if I had a pretty good intuition and understanding of why).
I do care about my career and I am probably quickly tempted to generalize my thoughts on this.
I wouldn’t really enjoy spending my time reviewing, debugging, correcting, and fixing, and most importantly carrying the responsibility, for a statistical engine. I don't see what the career progression is either. Is it “push as fast as possible to get a promotion and get out of this area before the 💩 starts breaking and you end up spending 1000% of your time in incidents?”

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…

I fiddled something again. The challenge was to enable static web file “hosting” out of Forgejo Repos. This doesn’t come out of the box from Forgejo and there are various ways to solve this.
I went for a hopefully lightweight setup using a Caddy Webserver to serve the static files and a little Rust program to act as a Webhooks for Forgejo to call on push to the repo. The repo can be found at

forgejo-static-pages
forgejo-static-pages

A welcome turning point. While electricity consumption continues to grow in China, large scale deployment of renewable energy generation means that coal-based generation has started to decline.
https://www.reuters.com/s…

I've gone back to a paper diary. I switched away from the app I loved and had used for years as it was getting dodgy. I tried Fossify Calendar but just couldn't settle with the display to the point that I started forgetting upcoming appts, so I have delightedly gone back to paper. As the Queen of Admin it suits me very well. I'm keeping the new calendar app just for push reminders of a few bits, but my mental map of the week comes from my diary. I can feel myself relax, daft old …

4 Bold Free Agency Predictions That Would Push Cowboys Back Into the Playoffs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/4-bold-free-agency-predictions-would-push-dallas-cowboys-back-into-playoffs

Why...... 😆
#microsoft

Microsoft Confirms Recent Windows 11 Updates Break Push Button Reset
Microsoft confirmed recent Windows 11 updates break the “Reset this PC” feature in March 2026 hotpatch notes.

push, push

Representative Pat Fallon (TX-04) will make a push for creating a US Cyber Force tomorrow at CSIS
https://www.csis.org/events/implementing-us-cyber-force-conversation-representative-pat-fallon

Implementing a U.S. Cyber Force: A Conversation with Representative Pat Fallon | CSIS Events
Join CSIS for a discussion with Representative Pat Fallon on the future of a U.S. Cyber Force.

China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables.
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off. https://www.nytimes.com/20…

China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off.

DeepState: Defense of Myrnohrad nears end as Russian forces push toward Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/deepstate-defense-of-myrnohrad-nears.html

Why sports fans explore online casino entertainment now https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/18/why-sports-fans-explore-online-casino-entertainment-now/

Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/18/nfl-hall-theodore-roosevelt-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p60#a260418p60

Consider the Strongest Notification Protections for Your Secure Messaging Apps
Secure chat tools are designed to keep the content of the messages safe inside the app.
So, for secure chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, that means the company that makes those apps cannot see the content of your messages,
and they’re only accessible on your and your recipients’ devices.
Once messages land on a device, it’s still important to consider some privacy precautions, particularly…

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations that Apple and Google now both require a judge’s order to hand details about push notifications over...

I read this fascinating thread while listening to Qobuz and by sheer coincidence, this track came on and it seems horribly appropriate:
#IfYouTolerateThisYourChildrenWillBeNext Manic Street Preachers on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/55341288
https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116075306722957554
@… - The Russians cannot be trusted. At best the Russians will buy time, and then have another go.
When will European governments call a spade a spade and really push to disconnect from Russian oil and gas? If that means buying it from the US interim so be it. But then really push hard for energy and military security.
Russia is NOT going away. Nor is its hatred of Europe which is why the've been waging war on us in myriad ways for the last 20 years.
4/end
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/alexei-navalny-poisoning-death-russia-frog-toxin

Imax partners with Apple TV to show five 2026 Formula One races across at least 50 US Imax locations, as Imax continues to push into live events (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/imax-f1-races-12…

Imax to Bring Real F1 Races Live to U.S. Screens After ‘F1: The Movie’
The partnership with Apple TV will see five races from Miami to Monza screen in 50 locations nationwide later this year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Underworld:
🎵 Push Upstairs
#Underworld
https://abstractbreaksarchive.bandcamp.com/track/push-upstairs
https://open.spotify.com/track/37EuwBNIMh88S44S9J4JC8

FT: Beijing backs brain implant push to rival Elon Musk's Neuralink #NeuroXess #BCI

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jtk/116421586624634345
Misinformation (along with disinfo and propaganda) exist not just in the geopolitical space. It crops up regularly in tech communities as well. Push back on it.
If you are at all annoyed by yet anothe…

For all the praises for AI for programming:
```
Q: When to use CLOB data type in SQLite?
Claude: […] XML or JSON documents (though SQLite has a dedicated JSON type now) […]
Q: Give me the link to the SQLIte JSON type
Claude: You're right to push back on that — I misspoke. SQLite does not have a JSON data type. JSON data in SQLite is stored as plain TEXT.
```
I do understand companies do not care.
I fail to see how developers would NOT care.

FTC push for age verification a ‘major landmark’ for spread of the tool https://therecord.media/ftc-push-for-age-verification-a-major-landmark-for-implementation

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…

"Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Colorado Democrats Push to Rip Up 2028 House Map for an Extra Edge (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/colorado-redistricting-house-map-2028.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.s6Xy.D9cG4B8dHNWt&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p65#a260218p65

Attention Browncoats: SHARE THIS VIDEO.
As Nathan says, they need the viewing metrics to push the Firefly animated series forward!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Once We Were Spacemen on Instagram: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly"
1M likes, 122K comments - oncewewerespacemen on March 15, 2026: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly".

dg@dalek:...$ git fetch dragon
dg@dalek:...$ git push dragon
(Dragon is my new Snapdragon laptop)

Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push – POLITICO
#Politics #EU

One thing I find actually infuriating about GrapheneOS is their unexplained, unexplored, unquestionable religious mantra that mere enabling of developer tools or ADB is automatically responsible for every aberrant behavior exhibited by the OS rather than their insane paranoid security-at-any-cost philosophy. Yes, I'm sure using ADB to push some audiobooks to my device and turning off UI animations in dev tools is what caused my phone not to be able to run a 2FA tool and Firefox simultane…

A top Justice Department official delivered a hardball message to federal prosecutors.
🆘Go after the protesters with everything you have.
In a conference call in late January,
the official, Aakash Singh, laid out the department’s basis for prosecuting demonstrators:
🔥National Security Presidential Memo 7 -- a sweeping directive issued by President Trump last September.
It expanded the definition of
"domestic terrorism" to include not only violent c…

‘Go Big and Go Loud’: Inside the Justice Dept.’s Push to Prosecute Protesters
Prosecutors have struggled to prove in court what the president and his aides have repeatedly said in public: that a network of leftist activists presents a serious threat to national security.

Good news: Changes to UK working habits push car park group into administration https://www.ft.com/content/2e809a65-b599-4cac-b487-e3cfd478c536 via @…

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Push to Cleanse His Past Online
After he left jail in 2009, Mr. Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.

The best part about all this age verification bullshit everywhere is that it's just going to inspire and push people to find ways around it. People will find ways, and they already are.

California lawmakers push to strip Cesar Chavez's name from state holiday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/california-chavez-rename-00835436
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p47#a260319p47

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

Sources: the glowing "26" in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ne…

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/meta-65-million-election-ai.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p56#a260218p56

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech

"America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/america-not-americans-inola-residents-say-trumps-industrial-push-is-coming-at-their-expense/

App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/

Middle East crisis live: Israeli officials push back on US claim that Trump knew nothing about gasfield attack (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/19/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-gas-field-strikes-pentagon-more-funds-trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p75#a260319p75

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 (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-one-person-companies-incentives/

China is mobilizing thousands of one-person AI startups
Under a national AI push, local governments are turning coworking space and data centers into AI incubators.

Ukrainian Forces push Russian troops back near five settlements, DeepState says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/ukrainian-forces-push-russian-troops.html

'Go Big and Go Loud': Inside the Justice Dept.'s Push to Prosecute Protesters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/politics/justice-dept-prosecute-protesters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p20#a260319p20

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

Cowboys Meet With ‘Very Accurate’ QB Who Could Push Joe Milton: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/interest-qb-haynes-king-nfl-draft/

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indi…

Major VCs line up top dollars for coordinated AI capital push in India
Top venture capital firms in India are set to invest $300–500 million each into the country’s AI ecosystem, covering infrastructure, enterprise applications and sector-specific solutions. Global and domestic VCs, including Khosla Ventures, Accel India and Lightspeed, are participating. Combined, these commitments could exceed $1 billion, surpassing last year’s startup funding.

Sources: Disney told advertisers it's seeking $10M for a 30-second Super Bowl LXI ad, but the price has some marketers holding back (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-10-million-super-bowl-commercials-a…

Disney Seeks $10 Million for Super Bowl Commercials
Disney Seeks $10 Million for Super Bowl Commercials, But Advertisers Push Back

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South"; it unveiled $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/micros

While Democrats spotlight #healthcare as part of their party-wide focus on #affordability ahead of the midterms,
⚠️the legislative push to address drug prices and the costs of medical insurance and treatments remains at a standstill in Washington.
After Senate Democrats shut down the majority of the…

Health Care Is Dead on the Hill but Very Alive in Democratic Campaigns
Bipartisan talks collapsed, but Democrats say the issue resonates outside of Washington. “This is an issue that the Republicans cannot mention, because people are suffering in every state,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told NOTUS.

TikTok, Instagram and X push more right-wing content at young users | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/tiktok-instagram-and-x-push-more-right-wing-content-at-young-users/

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ukraine stalls Russian push near Hulyaipole amid heavy losses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-stalls-russian-push-near.html

Turning Point USA’s high school push in GOP states meets free speech and religion concerns | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/turning-point-clubs-high-schools-charlie-kirk-6ff5b410b6c5272e2203b6adac4a198c

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

‘This Is Not Our War’:
Europe and U.K. Push Back Against Trump’s Demands
While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
several rejected Trump’s calls to send warships.
https://www.nytimes.…

Europe Rejects Trump’s Demands for Warships to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz
While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, several rejected President Trump’s calls to send warships.

House Democrats push to grill Stephen Miller, Tom Homan (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/17/house-homeland-security-miller-homan-testimony/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p89#a260417p89

Megyn Kelly says 60 Minutes made "deceptive edits" to a Pete Hegseth interview to "rehabilitate" Israel's role in Iran war because of Weiss' "pro-Israel" stance (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.

Megyn Kelly Slams 60 Minutes for Making ‘B*llshit’ Edits to Hegseth Interview to Push Bari Wei ...
Megyn Kelly accused 60 Minutes of making "deceptive edits" to its Pete Hegseth interview so that it could "rehabilitate" Israel's role in the strikes on Iran

Democrats Make Final Push to Delay Confirmation Hearing of Trump's Fed Pick (Colby Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/warsh-fed-democrats-confirmation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p11#a260417p11

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/india-…

India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans | TechCrunch
India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

From Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…

Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/15/trump-economy-white-house-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p8#a260215p8

The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-i…

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says
“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/gecko-robotics-navy-contract-ship-repair-t…

Gecko Robotics brings its AI to U.S. Navy ship repair in latest next-gen defense tech deal
CEO Jake Loosararian said Gecko is supporting the Navy's push to have 80% fleet readiness by 2027.

As Trump pressures Congress on the SAVE America Act, states push their own versions (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-pressures-congress-pass-america-act-states-push-versions-rcna261282
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p100#a260312p100

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85 companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Binance, PayPal, and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments
More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.

A trial date has been set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
On Thursday, Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida set a provisional start date of ⭐️February 15, 2027, for a two-week trial. 
The lawsuit was filed following the release of an episode from Panorama,
the BBC's investigative documentary series, titled
"Trump: A Second Chance?"
In it, the BBC cut together two parts of Trump's January 2021 speech to …

Date set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over BBC documentary
A federal judge has set the date for the president's push to punish a news organization he dislikes, again.

Trump speaks with Lebanese president amid Israel ceasefire push (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/lebanon-ceasefire-trump-aoun-israel-netanyahu
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p55#a260416p55

Axiamatic, which offers an "agentic control plane" to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/ex…

Exclusive: AI startup Axiamatic raises $54 million to help companies push their digital transformations forward
The Greylock and Bessemer-backed startup has just emerged from stealth under the leadership of three-time founder Rajiv Gupta and Kaushik Narayan.

Trump is eager to declare victory, but a battered Iran still has cards to play
Two weeks of conflict have not achieved the broader aims Trump has sometimes declared.
A hardened regime in Tehran remains in power, and it is roiling global oil markets by choking off the vital shipping lane that allows oil and gas out of the Persian Gulf.

The country’s leaders may be more eager than ever to race toward a nuclear weapon, diplomats and analysts say.
Iran retains control of wh…

Trump is eager to declare victory, but a battered Iran still has cards to play
The U.S. and Israel crippled Iranian forces in two weeks of war, but Tehran’s ability to disrupt oil flows and its uranium stockpile complicate the push to end it.

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Robinhood (HOOD) starts testing its own blockchain as crypto push deepens
The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

Raskin demands Trump cognitive test in 25th Amendment push (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/10/raskin-demands-trump-cognitive-test-in-25th-amendment-push
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p97#a260410p97

How the White House tried -- and failed -- to push a candidate out of a Republican state Senate primary in Indiana (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/white-house-failed-push-candidate-indiana-republican-senate-primary-rcna267361
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p65#a260410p65

Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back (Clara Hernanz Lizarraga/Bloomberg)

Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

Democrats push Trump for more details of Iran vision as war rages on (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/democrats-trump-iran-war-00829278
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p49#a260315p49

Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/ra

RapidFort raises $42M to push continuous remediation for software supply chain security - SiliconANGLE
RapidFort raises $42M to push continuous remediation for software supply chain security - SiliconANGLE

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/int…

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online
The technology has been used to create misleading fakes before. But never at this scale.

A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (Bloomberg)

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/alibabas-qwen-tech-lead-steps-down-after-major-ai-push/

Alibaba's Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push | TechCrunch
Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350199/

Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut merchant storage costs by 45%
Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein.

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3342

Meituan snaps up Dingdong to deepen push into fresh grocery retail
The US$717 million Dingdong acquisition highlights Meituan’s long-term bet on grocery e-commerce and on-demand consumption in China.

TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-great-ai-silicon-shortage

The Great AI Silicon Shortage
TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.