Tech

Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks, buying convertible senior notes with an initial conversion price of $22.72 per share, a 30% premium (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-3

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes (www.lawfaremedia.org)
2026-3-3 Trump

Grow Therapy, which connects patients with therapists covered by their insurance, raised a $150M Series D at a $3B valuation and hits $1B+ in annual revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 Insurance

From $60 to just $20 — join BJ's for less (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 Amazon Drone

Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B (www.chainalysis.com)
2026-3-3 Israel Iran

Sources: in the EU, US criticism over censorship has been met with disbelief and anger, and some Big Tech lobbyists acknowledge US accusations are overstated (www.ft.com)
2026-3-3

Google unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-3 Google

Star Citizen game dev discloses breach affecting user data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3

Sources: Samsung Foundry has frequently delayed the timeline for its plant in Taylor, Texas, with its mass production plans moving from early 2026 to early 2027 (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
2026-3-3 Samsung Texas

The 19th Century Silent Film That First Captured a Robot Attack (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 Robot

Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred (www.svd.se)
2026-3-3 Ban

Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 Democrat Senate

UH Cancer Center data breach affects nearly 1.2 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3

Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be the Growth of New Brain Cells (science.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3

Android gets patches for Qualcomm zero-day exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 Android

Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-3

Ayar Labs, which aims to replace the copper wiring in semiconductors with fiber optics, raised a $500M Series E led by Neuberger Berman at a $3.8B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-3

A look at the US DOJ's December lawsuit alleging a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export at least $160M in advanced Nvidia AI chips to China (www.thewirechina.com)
2026-3-3 China AI Nvidia

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as “the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication” but we were “trying to de-escalate things” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-3

Sam Altman says OpenAI is amending its DOD contract to ensure AI isn't used for domestic surveillance of US persons, the NSA is excluded from the deal for now (t.co)
2026-3-3 AI

Sam Altman says “the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI” and no private company should decide the fate of the world (x.com)
2026-3-3 AI

Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules For Data Centers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3

Ayar Labs, which is replacing the copper wiring in semiconductors with fiber optics, raised a $500M Series E led by Neuberger Berman at a $3.8B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-3

AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after drone strikes impacted its infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-3 Drone

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 AI Browser

Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3

British Columbia To End Time Changes, Adopt Year-Round Daylight Time (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 U.K.

OpenAI and the DOD have agreed to add more surveillance protections to a recent AI deal; sources: Sam Altman approached DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal (www.axios.com)
2026-3-3 AI

Anthropic brings Claude's memory feature to free users, after launching it for paid users in 2025 (www.engadget.com)
2026-3-3

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