Tech

Microsoft's new gaming CEO Asha Sharma teases the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games” (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-6 Microsoft Xbox

X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-6

Meta recently hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the company behind the vibe coding app Gizmo, to join its Superintelligence Labs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-6

Train for your cybersecurity & risk management career for just $20 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 Career

OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets (slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Google

WordPress membership plugin bug exploited to create admin accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 WordPress

FBI arrests suspect linked to $46M crypto theft from US Marshals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-6 FBI

GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro is priced at $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-6

OpenAI says GPT-5.4's “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2” (www.zdnet.com)
2026-3-6

GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-6

OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Google Microsoft

A senior defense official says Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 Pentagon

Sources: Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as soon as this month as part of its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-6 AI Oracle

OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-6

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-6

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032 (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-6 Google

Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of “US military and intelligence activities” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-6 Amazon Iran Intelligence

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

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