Tech

Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Ex-data analyst stole company data in $2.5M extortion scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

Microsoft: March Windows updates break Teams, OneDrive sign-ins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 Microsoft

International joint action disrupts world's largest DDoS botnets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

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 (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-20 Xiaomi

China Is Helping Drive Cuba's Solar Boom (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 China Solar

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 (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-20

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 Alibaba AI Tencent

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 India IPO AI

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 (decrypt.co)
2026-3-20 Google Microsoft

EU Cloud Lobby Asks Regulator To Block VMware From Terminating Partner Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 VMware

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system “Project Sunrise” (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 AI

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 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Jeff Bezos

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 (www.newyorker.com)
2026-3-20 Startup AI

Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund to buy companies in industrial sectors and revamp them with AI, in a Project Prometheus-linked effort (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 AI Jeff Bezos

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-3-20

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 (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-20

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 (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-3-20 AI Conspiracy

Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20

US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-20 China Nvidia

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 Browser

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-20 Nvidia

4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20

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 (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 Alphabet

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' (www.axios.com)
2026-3-20 China Pentagon

Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 AI

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