Tech

Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments to any country (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 AI Nvidia AMD

Senator Ron Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee's top Democrat, vows to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after Trump barred Anthropic from government work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Trump Democrat Senate

Roblox launches real-time AI “chat rephrasing”, which replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of using the traditional # symbol (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-6 AI

Apple implemented geoblocking in January to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account (www.wired.com)
2026-3-6 China Apple

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls OpenAI's Messaging Around Military Deal 'Straight Up Lies' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-6

The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service (decrypt.co)
2026-3-6 FBI

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-3-6 AI

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (variety.com)
2026-3-6 AI Netflix

Amazon's Bahrain Data Center Targeted By Iran For US Military Support (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Amazon Iran

Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying “government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-6

Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-6

Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M (www.axios.com)
2026-3-6

Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-6

US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Energy

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-3-6 AI

2026 Browser Data Reveals Major Enterprise Security Blind Spots (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 Browser

Google says 90 zero-days were exploited in attacks last year (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 Google

AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an AI-driven suite to automate clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Amazon AI

Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols about notifying police over potentially suspicious ChatGPT use (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-6 Canada

Apple's MacBook Neo poses a big threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-3-6 Apple MacBook Lenovo

Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.25B valuation, bringing total raised to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Startup

Solar In Poor Countries Is Creating a Huge Lead Hazard (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Solar

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia Is Pulling Back From OpenAI and Anthropic (slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Nvidia

Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-6 AI

China's new five-year plan introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI over 50 times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-6 China AI Quantum

Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Energy

Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-3-6 AI

Meta agrees to allow rival “general purpose AI chatbots” access to WhatsApp in Europe for a 12-month period to avoid potential interim measures from the EU (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-6 Europe AI chatbot WhatsApp

NYSE parent ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without specifying the size of investment, and will take a seat on the company's board (fortune.com)
2026-3-6

Police dismantles online gambling ring exploiting Ukrainian women (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 Ukraine

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