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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Image Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, above $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% YoY to $8.9B, above $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ pre-market  —  Oracle shares rose as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Image Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams  —  Amid a weekslong conflict with the Pentagon, resulting in a blacklist and a lawsuit, Anthropic is shaking up its C-suite and research initiatives.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Image Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation  —  Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic on Tuesday, saying a judge should issue a restraining order that would block …
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Image Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts  —  Polymarket is enlisting firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. to help police its sports contracts as prediction markets face intense scrutiny over insider trading.
Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword:
Image Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish  —  We're bringing Chrome's powerful AI features to more regions and languages, helping millions of people get the most out of their browser.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Image Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end  —  Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?  —  Sam Altman sits with his legs pretzeled in an office chair, staring deeply into the ceiling.
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Image Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook for an undisclosed sum; its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs  —  Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned. … - Meta did not disclose Moltbook's purchase price.
Bloomberg:
Image A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January  —  Chen Zhi developed a sprawling network of politicians and banks while he built a global fortune and alleged “pig butchering” scam hubs.
Washington Post:
Image Sources: the US Social Security inspector general is probing claims that an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer  —  The Social Security inspector general's office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Image After social media backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address  —  No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and …
Bloomberg:
Image Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze  —  This cohort has become an increasingly important driver of investment growth in the world's second-largest economy.  —  By Bloomberg Businessweek
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Image Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers  —  Elon Musk's xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Image MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business  —  The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
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Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
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Alice French / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailersFind
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Disney promotes Thomas Mazloum to chairman of its parks, cruises, and consumer products division, succeeding Josh D'Amaro, who is set to become CEO on March 18

Maer Roshan / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview, Harvey Weinstein says prison life is “hell”, Disney cut off his insurance and pays a $60K/year pension, he will be “proven innocent”, and more

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Letter: 200+ Thomson Reuters staff ask the company not to renew its ICE contract when it expires in May; Thomson Reuters' Westlaw service is Minneapolis-based

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The Economic Times:
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Sandbar, which is developing the Stream ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M

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Martin Matishak / The Record:
The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Epic says V-bucks will get more expensive starting March 19, with players getting 800 V-bucks for $8.99, down from 1,000 now, citing Fortnite running costs
Bloomberg:
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using its Comet browser for purchases on behalf of users, and to destroy copies of Amazon's data
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to “manage unauthorized AI-impersonation”
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
MacBook Neo review: premium chassis, vivid display, mechanical touchpad is clickable anywhere, and affordable, but no backlit keyboard and no USB-C port labels
Financial Times:
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