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Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 (Financial Times) ft.com/content/07590d… #a260331p2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260331/p2#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data (@issielapowsky / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260331p1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260331/p1#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (@tqbf / sockpuppet) sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/3… #a260330p47" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p47#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state (@ceciliakang / New York Times) nytimes.com/2026/03/30/tec… #a260330p46" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p46#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 (@toddbishop / GeekWire) geekwire.com/2026/rec-room-… #a260330p45" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p45#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI (Axios) axios.com/2026/03/30/dav… #a260330p44" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p44#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's blowout earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9% (@lolavkm / CNBC) cnbc.com/2026/03/30/mic… #a260330p43" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p43#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks (Vaibhav Srivastav/ @reach_vb) x.com/reach_vb/statu… #a260330p42" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p42#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 (@ericnewcomer / Newcomer) newcomer.co/p/coatue-proje… #a260330p41" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p41#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks (Qwen) qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.… #a260330p40" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p40#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% (@katiebindley / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/lifestyle/care… #a260330p39" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p39#a26…

Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval (@iryantldr / 9to5Mac) 9to5mac.com/2026/03/30/app… #a260330p38" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p38#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Apple Intelligence is rolling out in China, according to user reports, after launching in the US in October 2024 (@iryantldr / 9to5Mac) 9to5mac.com/2026/03/30/app… #a260330p38" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p38#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws (@karascannell / CNN) cnn.com/2026/03/30/pol… #a260330p37" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p37#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations (@aiishamalik1 / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/met… #a260330p36" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p36#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community (@birnbaum_e / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260330p35" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p35#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center (Financial Times) ft.com/content/49a8b5… #a260330p34" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p34#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (@meirorbach / CTech) calcalistech.com/ctechnews/arti… #a260330p33" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p33#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures (@bdanweiss / Fortune) fortune.com/2026/03/30/val… #a260330p32" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260330/p32#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact