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Meta decides not to shut down Horizon Worlds on VR after all; CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems Mar 20, 2026

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Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta's plans to build a social metaverse -- four years later, the company almost shut it down.

Also, the U.S. cybersecurity agency urged companies to prevent access to systems used for remotely managing their fleets of employee devices after hackers broke into a major U.S. medical tech giant and remotely wiped thousands of phones and computers.

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Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus’; plus Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth Mar 19, 2026

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Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

Also, Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

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Kalshi’s legal troubles pile up; plus, Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ Mar 18, 2026

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Arizona's lawsuit is the latest salvo in an escalating battle between state regulators and an industry that claims it's not beholden to them.

Also, Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches.

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Memories AI is building the visual memory layer for wearables and robotics; plus, Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: security Mar 17, 2026

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Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that can index and retrieve video-recorded memories for physical AI.

Nvidia announced an open enterprise AI agent platform, called NemoClaw, that is built off of viral OpenClaw.

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The billionaires made a promise — now some want out Mar 16, 2026

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Written by Connie Loizos for TechCrunch.

In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign to get the richest people on earth to promise, publicly, to give most of their money away. The moment seemed to call for it. Tech was minting billionaires faster than any industry in history.

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Bumble will launch an AI dating assistant; plus, Webflow bought an AI content generation platform Mar 13, 2026

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Bumble's new AI assistant Bee will move the dating app beyond the swipe by matching people based on compatibility and goals.

Also, founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate marketing collateral like images, presentations, video clips, blog posts, and social media content.

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Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact Mar 12, 2026

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The National Transportation Safety Board released documents ahead of a March 31 hearing that help show how and why two drivers crashed into stationary vehicles in 2024, leading to three deaths.

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Google wraps up $32B acquisition of cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz; plus, Amazon expands a program that lets customers shop from other retailers’ sites Mar 11, 2026

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Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google's biggest acquisition in its history.

Also, Amazon's changes allow more merchants to participate in Amazon's Shop Direct program, which sends Amazon customers to other retailers' websites.

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Hyperscale Power the latest to challenge transformer tech; plus, YouTube expanding AI deepfake detection Mar 10, 2026

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Startup Hyperscale Power is developing technology that promises to shrink power transformers, freeing up precious space within data centers.

Also, YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic; plus, Rivian is betting its future on one of the fastest EV launches in US history Mar 06, 2026

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story.

Also, if Rivian reaches its R2 sales target in 2026, it will be one of the fastest ramp-ups ever of a new EV in the United States.

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