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The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 YouTube

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-26 YouTube

Meta Loses Trial After Arguing Child Exploitation Was 'Inevitable' (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-3-26

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Google

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place (www.axios.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-3-26 AI

AI Economy Is a 'Ponzi Scheme,' Says AI Doc Director (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-3-26 AI

Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-26 Google Apple

China Is Mass-Producing Hypersonic Missiles For $99,000 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-26 China

Citrix urges admins to patch NetScaler flaws as soon as possible (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-26

Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Drone

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (research.google)
2026-3-26 Google Algorithm

SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26

Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer (siliconangle.com)
2026-3-26

Paid AI Accounts Are Now a Hot Underground Commodity (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Elon Musk

Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say it impacts a few hundred people across Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting, and some sales roles (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-26

Normal Computing, which uses AI to help chip companies design chips more efficiently, raised $50M led by Samsung Catalyst and says it has 5+ top chip clients (fortune.com)
2026-3-26 Samsung AI

Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K+ users at 1,300+ organizations (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Sources: AI science startup Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and DeepMind's Ekin Cubuk, aims to raise hundreds of millions at a ~$7B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-26 Startup AI

US official: Trump plans to name Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang to the Council of Advisors on Science and Tech, co-chaired by David Sacks (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-26 Trump Zuckerberg

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure (www.ft.com)
2026-3-25 IOS Europe Apple Credit Card

Kali Linux 2026.1 released with 8 new tools, new BackTrack mode (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-25 Linux

OpenAI says it will discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-25

Temu owner PDD reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$18B and net profit down 11% YoY to ~$3.56B, below ~$4B est., as it seeks to retain merchants on its platform (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-25 4Q

AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-25 Startup AI

Chandra Resolves Why Black Holes Hit the Brakes On Growth (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-25

Memo: Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and more (www.axios.com)
2026-3-25 AI Zuckerberg

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