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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

DHL Supply Chain says it will open 10 warehouses in 2026 across North America to serve data center operators and component suppliers, totaling 7M+ square feet (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-19 U.S.

Ofcom fines 4chan £520K for OSA violations, including a £450K penalty for failing to implement age assurance checks, giving it until April 2 to implement them (www.politico.eu)
2026-3-19

CISA urges US orgs to secure Microsoft Intune systems after Stryker breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

An open-box ASUS Chromebook with a detachable touchscreen for $150 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

The UN-backed World Happiness Report says passively consuming algorithmic social media hurts teens' mental health, disproportionately affecting girls (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19

iPhone Exploit DarkSword Steals Data In Minutes With No Trace (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 iPhone

Critical Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

New ‘Perseus' Android malware checks user notes for secrets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19 Android

TechInsights: chip manufacturing emissions will climb by ~33% to 247M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, roughly equivalent to Algeria in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Manufacturing

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Alibaba AI

An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of “hostile architecture” (thatshubham.com)
2026-3-19

Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Samsung

CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool to manage staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 Microsoft

Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (tech.eu)
2026-3-19 AI Paris

Sources: European chip importers are tapping backup stores and paying higher air freight costs as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern cargo routes (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-19 Europe Iran

Pardoned Nikola Fraudster Is Raising Funds For AI-Powered Planes He Claims Will Reshape Aviation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 AI

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-19

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 (restofworld.org)
2026-3-19 China Startup AI

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Horizon Worlds will remain in VR for the “foreseeable future”, after Meta said Quest headset users will lose access from June 15 (www.lowpass.cc)
2026-3-19 VR

Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (www.ft.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (www.scmp.com)
2026-3-19 Alibaba AI

Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-3-19 Trump U.S. AI Senate

Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (x.com)
2026-3-19 Google IPO AI

Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” design canvas and a reasoning design agent (blog.google)
2026-3-19 NLP Google AI

AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-19 Apple

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