Tech

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

CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 AI

Sources: X and xAI are set to repay ~$17.5B of debt in full; X took on ~$12.5B of debt during Musk's purchase, and xAI borrowed $5B via bonds and loans in June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 Drone

MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M est., and forecasts Q1 adjusted earnings per share below estimates; MDB drops 22%+ after hours (www.barrons.com)
2026-3-3 4Q

Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 Google AI Apple

The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-3 Real Estate

Source: Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2B in February, doubling from three months earlier, and about 60% of the revenue is coming from corporate customers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-3 IPO

Sources: US considers limiting Chinese companies to 75K Nvidia H200 chips each, less than half of what some want to buy; AMD MI325 chips also count toward a cap (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 China Nvidia AMD

HBO Max and Paramount+ To Merge Into One Streaming Service (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3

Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 Iran Decentralize

New York-based Ease Health, which is building an AI-native OS for behavioral health providers, emerged from stealth and raised a $41M Series A led by a16z (techfundingnews.com)
2026-3-3 AI New York

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3

Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks (venturebeat.com)
2026-3-3 Alibaba

Fake Google Security site uses PWA app to steal credentials, MFA codes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3 Google

Microsoft Bans 'Microslop' On Its Discord, Then Locks the Server (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3 Microsoft

Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-3

ByteDance shares details about its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS (www.uploadvr.com)
2026-3-3 PPI

Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-3 Japan IPO Iran

Alabama man pleads guilty to hacking, extorting hundreds of women (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-3

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-3 Startup

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