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Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for "any lawful government purpose"; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (Erin Woo/The Information)

Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD t...

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Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees were announced in March 2026, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (Wall Street Journal)

Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employe...

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Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home service...

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How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~...

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Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (The Economic Times)

Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quic...

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Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its M...

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Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photoni...

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OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for ...

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South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45%+ this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the...

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Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A (Jim Hammerand/MassDevice)

Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI f...

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Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside (Wired)

Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial e...

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Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reachin...

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Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans (Politico)

Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a lan...

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Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in observability company Dynatrace and is pushing for changes to boost the stock; DT jumps 7%+ after hours (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in...

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FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide)

FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social med...

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FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide)

FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social med...

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Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed applications to trademark the singer's voice and image, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI (Josh Gerben/Gerben IP)

Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed app...

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Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press)

Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI ...

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