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ARCHIVE TUESDAY, MARCH 31 · 27 STORIES
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Raises $3 Billion From Retail Investors
OpenAI has completed a $122 billion funding round led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, valuing the artificial intelligence company at $852 billion and opening a...
PrismML Emerges From Stealth With $16.25 Million, Claims 1-Bit LLM Matches Full-Precision Performance
PrismML, a startup founded by researchers from Caltech, has come out of stealth with $16.25 million in SAFE and seed funding, claiming its 1-bit large language ...
Claude Code Leak Deepens: Exposed Source Reveals 'Self-Healing Memory' Architecture and Internal Codenames
Analysis of source code accidentally exposed in Anthropic's Claude Code npm package has revealed internal architecture details including a system described as '...
Waymo Launches Robotaxi Service at San Antonio International Airport
Waymo has begun offering commercial robotaxi services at San Antonio International Airport, expanding its autonomous ride-hail operations to a new U.S. market, ...
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
Alibaba's newly released Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model is proprietary rather than open-weight, marking a notable departure from the company's previous strategy ...
Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Exposed Through Map File in NPM Package
Source code for Anthropic's Claude Code, the company's terminal-based AI coding assistant, has been inadvertently exposed through a JavaScript source map file i...
Big Tech's $635 Billion AI Spending Plans Face Energy Supply Test, S&P Global Warns
The $635 billion in AI infrastructure spending planned by major technology companies faces a significant stress test from energy supply constraints, S&P Global ...
Babel Audio Pays Strangers $17 an Hour to Record Conversations for AI Training Data
Babel Audio, a startup building AI training datasets from human conversations, pairs anonymous strangers to record their discussions and bundles the recordings ...
Doug Leone Returns to Sequoia Capital in Newly Created Chairman Role Four Years After Retirement
Doug Leone, one of the most prominent venture capitalists of the past three decades, is returning to Sequoia Capital in a newly created chairman role, the firm ...
Jack Dorsey Pitches AI as Replacement for Middle Managers as Block Cuts Nearly Half Its Staff
Jack Dorsey is positioning artificial intelligence as a structural replacement for middle management at Block Inc., outlining a vision in which AI systems coord...
Nvidia Commits $2 Billion to Marvell Technology in NVLink Fusion Partnership
Nvidia has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and formalized a partnership to integrate Marvell's silicon into Nvidia's NVLink Fusion ecosystem, the comp...
TCL Takes Over Sony's Television Business in Major Consumer Electronics Deal
TCL, the Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer, is taking over Sony's television business in a deal that would transfer one of the most recognized TV brands...
Amazon Wins Delta In-Flight Internet Deal, Dealing Blow to SpaceX Starlink in Airline Market
Amazon has struck a deal to provide in-flight internet access on Delta Air Lines flights through its Leo satellite business, covering 500 aircraft beginning in ...
Trump Administration Proposes Expanding Legal Protections for 401(k) Plans Offering Crypto and Alternative Assets
The Trump administration has proposed extending legal safe harbor protections to companies that offer cryptocurrency, private equity, private credit, and real e...
Meta Faces Thousands More Lawsuits Over Teen Harm After First Major Accountability Ruling
Meta is bracing for thousands of additional lawsuits following what legal observers are calling the first significant judicial accountability finding against th...
Ninth Circuit Unanimously Denies Apple Rehearing in Epic Games Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has unanimously denied Apple's request for a rehearing in its long-running antitrust dispute with Epic Games, ac...
Whoop Raises $575 Million Series G at $10.1 Billion Valuation
Whoop, the wearable fitness technology company known for its subscription-based health monitoring platform, has closed a $575 million Series G funding round at ...
Whoop Raises $575 Million at $10.1 Billion Valuation After Hitting $1 Billion in Annual Recurring Revenue
Wearable fitness tracker maker Whoop has raised $575 million led by Collaborative Fund at a valuation of $10.1 billion, with the company reporting it reached $1...
Security Firm Finds AI Agent Tool With 500,000 Deployments Lacks Enterprise Kill Switch
Researchers at Cato Networks have identified a serious security gap in OpenClaw, an AI personal assistant tool with more than 500,000 active deployments: the so...
New Criminal Service Emerges to Monetize Data Stolen by Ransomware Groups
A new criminal service has emerged with a business model built around monetizing data stolen by ransomware gangs, according to a report by The Record from Recor...
Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposed Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts
A vulnerability in Google's Vertex AI platform, the company's managed machine learning service, exposed Google Cloud customer data and private artifacts to unau...
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler Flaw by Thursday
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has ordered all U.S. federal civilian agencies to apply patches for the critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerabi...
Iranian Hackers Breach FBI Director's Personal Email, Post CV and Photos Online
Iranian-linked hackers have breached the personal email account of the FBI director and published the contents online, including a CV and personal photographs, ...
OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability
OpenAI has patched two security vulnerabilities affecting its products: a data exfiltration flaw in ChatGPT and a separate vulnerability in Codex that exposed G...
Axios NPM Package Compromised, Malicious Versions Dropping Remote Access Trojan
The Axios JavaScript library, one of the most widely downloaded packages on the npm registry with hundreds of millions of weekly downloads, has been compromised...
Marvell Stock Jumps 9% as Nvidia Takes $2 Billion Stake in Custom Chip Partner
Shares of Marvell Technology rose approximately 9 percent Tuesday after Nvidia disclosed a $2 billion equity stake in the custom chip designer, continuing a pat...
Nebius Announces $10 Billion, 310-Megawatt Data Center in Finland as European AI Infrastructure Race Accelerates
Amsterdam-based AI cloud company Nebius has announced a $10 billion data center project in Lappeenranta, Finland, spanning 310 megawatts of capacity, to be buil...