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Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (@gregbensinger / Reuters) reuters.com/technology/ama… #a260320p7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p7#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (@olgakharif / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260320p6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p6#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260320p5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p5#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Pro, its new 1T-parameter foundation model, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which the company says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 (@carlfranzen / VentureBeat) venturebeat.com/technology/xia… #a260320p4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p4#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (The Block) theblock.co/post/394238/se… #a260320p3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p3#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260320p2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p2#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (@saritharai / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260320p1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260320/p1#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (@jaldps / Decrypt) decrypt.co/361791/microso… #a260319p63" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p63#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system "Project Sunrise" (@micahmaidenberg / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/blue-orig… #a260319p62" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p62#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times) nytimes.com/2026/03/19/tec… #a260319p61" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p61#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (@chaykak / New Yorker) newyorker.com/culture/infini… #a260319p60" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p60#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 (@a_greenberg / Wired) wired.com/story/us-takes… #a260319p59" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p59#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (@carlfranzen / VentureBeat) venturebeat.com/technology/new… #a260319p58" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p58#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (@murraystassen / Music Business Worldwide) musicbusinessworldwide.com/streaming-frau… #a260319p57" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p57#a26…

Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (Axios) axios.com/2026/03/19/whi… #a260319p56" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p56#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 9%+ after hours (@jordannovet / CNBC) cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-… #a260319p55" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p55#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (@berber_jin1 / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/openai-pl… #a260319p54" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p54#a26…

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (@m_ccuri / Axios) axios.com/2026/03/19/ant… #a260319p53" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p53#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (@stephennellis / Reuters) reuters.com/business/retai… #a260319p52" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p52#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is "different" from other companies' (@m_ccuri / Axios) axios.com/2026/03/19/pen… #a260319p51" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260319/p51#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact