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Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-19 AI Apple Browser

The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide incorporation regime that it says takes 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 China Europe Startup

Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help) (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 Solar

Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B+ valuation, and reports 100+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 AI

The US goods trade deficit hit a record $1.2T in 2025, driven by a 60% rise in imports of computers and chips to $450B+ since President Trump's inauguration (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 Trump

China's Chengdu says Tim Cook attended Apple's 50th anniversary event in the city; state media called for Apple to fix its “monopolistic” App Store practices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 China Apple Tim Cook

Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI privacy issues, sovereign AI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 Europe AI London

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-18 Google

How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-3-18 AI

A Stanford study of 391K messages across 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of responses, frequently validating delusional thinking (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 AI chatbot

Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$28.3B, vs. ~$28.2B est., its fifth quarter of double-digit growth, driven by gaming and ads, as it bets on agentic AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 AI Tencent 4Q

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (www.wired.com)
2026-3-18 Quantum

Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Samsung AMD

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Alibaba AI

Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI Nvidia

The UK's FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18

Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom (sfstandard.com)
2026-3-18 AI Hacker San Francisco

Banks start offloading $18B debt tied to the $55B buyout of EA; sources say EA told potential investors AI could let gaming companies cut engineering workforces (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (www.ft.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon Microsoft

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-18 AI

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-18 Linux Google AI

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 Samsung

A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music (arstechnica.com)
2026-3-18 Apple YouTube

Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-18 Amazon

Companies are starting to track employees' AI token use and tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments, and to prevent potential token abuse (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-18 AI

AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18 AI Drone Ukraine

Source: Beijing has approved multiple Chinese companies to purchase H200 chips from Nvidia; a Chinese spokesperson said they are “not aware of specifics” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 China Nvidia

Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” (www.wired.com)
2026-3-18 AI Pentagon

Apple pushes first Background Security Improvements update to fix WebKit flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-18 Apple

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