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Cursor says Composer 2 is “frontier-level at coding” and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more (cursor.com)
2026-3-20

Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Facebook AI Zuckerberg

OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Startup

Bitrefill blames North Korean Lazarus group for cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 Korea

Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 Trump China

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent $800K+ on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia page, after his 2009 release from jail (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-20 Google

Microsoft Considers Legal Action Over $50 Billion Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Amazon Microsoft

Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-20 Algorithm Walmart

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

FBI seizes Handala data leak site after Stryker cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 FBI

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-20

Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-20 AI

Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20 Alphabet

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

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-20 India Google Apple

Russian hackers exploit Zimbra flaw in Ukrainian govt attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20 Russia Ukraine

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

7 Ways to Prevent Privilege Escalation via Password Resets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk” (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20

Max severity Ubiquiti UniFi flaw may allow account takeover (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-20

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-20 AI Adobe Asset

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-20 Adobe

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

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-20 Google Tax California

PwC US Senior Partner Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and PwC plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (t.co)
2026-3-20 AI

10 Explosive Facts You Probably Don't Know About Volcanoes (listverse.com)
2026-3-20

Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z (fortune.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-19 Uber

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-19 AI Layoffs

The NHTSA escalates its investigation into Tesla's FSD to an “engineering analysis”, a step that could lead to a mandatory recall or other enforcement action (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-19 Tesla

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