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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

Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Android China Apple

FBI Is Buying Location Data To Track US Citizens, Director Confirms (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 FBI

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (www.wired.com)
2026-3-19 chatbot Walmart

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” (www.anthropic.com)
2026-3-19 AI

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-19 LinkedIn

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-19 Google AI

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering” (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-19 Italy

Aura confirms data breach exposing 900,000 marketing contacts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (www.thurrott.com)
2026-3-19 Android IOS AI Browser

Cloudflare Appeals Piracy Shield Fine, Hopes To Kill Italy's Site-Blocking Law (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Italy

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 AI

Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Google

Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19 AI

New Windows 11 Bug Breaks Samsung PCs, Blocking Access To C: Drive (it.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 Samsung

Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-19

UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 AI

CISA orders feds to patch Zimbra XSS flaw exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-3-19 Startup

Meta Is Shutting Down VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-3-19 VR

ConnectWise patches new flaw allowing ScreenConnect hijacking (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Get a refurbished Chromebook as a backup while it's just $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-19

Meta makes its Meta Lab NYC pop-up on Fifth Avenue a permanent flagship location after signing a 10-year lease; it opened its first flagship store in LA in 2025 (wwd.com)
2026-3-19

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