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Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes, X is changing its revenue-sharing policy, and Sony and Honda is killing its Afeela EVs Mar 25, 2026

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-Baltimore began a municipal lawsuit against xAI, arguing that Elon Musk's businesses violated the city's Consumer Protection Ordinance.

-Starting Thursday, X will update its revenue-sharing incentives to give more weight to engagement from a user’s home region.

-Sony Honda Mobility, the automotive venture from two of Japan’s most storied companies, has axed its EV project.

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Wheely, an on-demand chauffeur app, makes its US debut in NYC Mar 24, 2026

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The London-based company has plans to expand to five major cities in the US in the next three years.

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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers, Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app, and Wing is expanding its drone delivery service to the Bay Area Mar 24, 2026

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-The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk.

-This potential ad revenue from Apple's Map App could seriously bolster Apple's services business, which currently generates $100 billion a year for the company. This division accounts for around 25 percent of annual revenue but faces challenges in both the short-term and long-term

-The drone delivery startup has been rapidly expanding to metro areas across the US, but is now targeting the tech-friendly Silicon Valley region.

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Elon Musk claims Terafab project will be the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever' Mar 23, 2026

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The Terafab project in Austin, Texas will be a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI.

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Reddit is looking for methods to combat its bot problem, team work makes the dream work for Plastic Eating Bacteria, and the Crimson Desert developer promised to replace the game’s AI-generated art Mar 23, 2026

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-According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot.

-In Cheyenne MacDonald’s Science column over the weekend, she wrote about how researchers in Germany have identified a trio of bacteria that can digest a common plastic additive, but only when working together.

-The developer behind the open-world RPG Crimson Desert has issued an official apology after players discovered several instances of AI-generated art in the game.

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Meta's metaverse app will stick around after all Mar 20, 2026

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Horizon Worlds for Quest will stick around for the "foreseeable future," according to the company's CTO.

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Amazon acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, OpenAI is putting ChatGPT, its browser and code generator into one desktop app, and DoorDash will start paying gig workers for creating content to train AI models Mar 20, 2026

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-Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 million in a funding round from August 2024, which both Amazon and its CEO's Bezos Expeditions participated in.

-An OpenAI spokesperson told the publications that OpenAI Chief of Applications Fidji Simo will lead the application revamp with assistance from OpenAI President Greg Brockman.

-DoorDash has launched a new option for its gig economy workers to earn some extra cash.

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Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June Mar 19, 2026

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The company shared that it would go "all-in" on the mobile version of the platform in February.

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Meta agentic AI sparked a security incident, a Tennessee senator introduced the first draft of a federal AI bill, and the FBI confirmed it's buying Americans' location data Mar 19, 2026

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-A Meta employee used an in-house agentic AI to analyze a query from a second employee on an internal forum. The AI agent posted a response to the second employee with advice even though the first person did not direct it to do so. The second employee took the agent's recommended action, sparking a domino effect

-Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) shared a discussion draft for codifying the executive order signed by President Donald Trump in December calling for an AI bill. Her stated goal is a policy that "protects children, creators, conservatives and communities from harm."

-During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' movement and location.

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Apple and Nike team up for a new Powerbeats Pro 2 colorway Mar 18, 2026

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The Nike Special Edition gives the earphones a shoe-inspired paint job.

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