Investors are questioning OpenAI's $852bn valuation as CEO Sam Altman refocuses the company's strategy while rival Anthropic emerges with a possible technical and revenue lead, pressuring valuation, IPO terms and OpenAI's commercial roadmap. - Financial Times

Novo Nordisk and OpenAI partner to accelerate drug discovery - The Wall Street Journal

Hiro dreams of money: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro; terms undisclosed - TechCrunch

Authorities charged 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama with attempted murder and arson after he threw a Molotov-like device at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, and investigators found a document naming other AI leaders and warning of AI risks. - The New York Times

Nordic social democracy enabled by AI: OpenAI published a vision statement proposing higher taxes on the rich, expanded welfare, worker oversight of AI, and a public wealth fund to buy company stakes and distribute shares to every U.S. citizen, prompting accusations of corporate hypocrisy. - Vox

U.S. military AI helped plan strikes on 13,000+ targets across four conflict zones - Foreign Policy

Zelenskyy says robots are taking point and taking positions without human oversight. - X (formerly Twitter)

Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic - now tells banks to use its AI - TNW | Anthropic

Schneier On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing - Schneier on Security

Users report Claude performance degradation and outages as Anthropic denies intentional nerfing - The Register

Anthropic reduced Claude Code's prompt-cache TTL from one hour to five minutes around March 7, raising write token costs by about 25% and prompting developers and enterprise users to report faster Pro quota depletion and degraded long-session behavior. - The Register

Orbital Inc. raised an undisclosed funding round led by a16z Speedrun to finance its Orbital-1 proof-of-concept mission, targeting April 2027 launch and a Los Angeles Factory-1 R&D facility to test Nvidia-powered GPUs in sun-synchronous LEO (~500–600 km, 20–40 ms). - SiliconANGLE

Red ink aiming for red planet: SpaceX lost $5b, targets $1.75T valuation - Yahoo

why not lose $10b, target $3.5T tho

Mallaby: We can't beat China in AI but here's what we can do. - The New York Times

Utilities plan $1.4 trillion over five years to power AI demand - The Wall Street Journal

Uber agrees to buy over 35,000 Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invests $200 million, bringing its total investment to $500 million. - The Wall Street Journal

Level 3 lawlessness: Tesla Autopilot is high risk, remote operators lack oversight, and autonomy remains a legal and ethical minefield. - Hacker Noon

Fleets of robotaxis with remote drivers seem like a supply chain attack waiting to happen.

70+ organizations urge Meta to abandon facial recognition in smart glasses, citing risks to vulnerable groups - WIRED

My AI sunglasses were like a kid who hasn’t done any of the reading but keeps being called on in class — and who also can’t make friends, because all of his classmates think he’s a spy. - The New York Times

Edmonton police pilot AI facial-recognition bodycams scanning faces against a 7,000-mugshot watchlist - CBC

iSpy: Apple plans AI-powered glasses to rival Meta - Bloomberg

AI chatbots misdiagnose over 80% of early-stage medical cases, raising safety and liability concerns - Financial Times

AI is transforming biological experiments faster than existing safety regulations can keep pace. - Fast Company

AI chatbots are 50% more affirming than humans, and users follow their incorrect advice nearly 80% of the time. - The Conversation

The tech jobs bust is real, but is it due to AI? - The Economist

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’ - the Guardian

Poor data and trust stall AI pilots despite half of organizations feeling ready to scale - TechRadar

A report debunks four common myths about using AI in hiring. - Fast Company

The 20/60/20 singularity: Yegge says even at Google, 1/5 AI refuseniks, 1/5 power user sealots, 60% casuals. - X (formerly Twitter)

Demis Hassabis calls BS - X (formerly Twitter)

I ditched my paper planner for Gemini Live — and it solved the one professional problem I couldn't fix - Tom's Guide

Microsoft Plots New Copilot Features Inspired by OpenClaw - The Information

The Case for Rust CLI Tools Over Python MCP Servers in Agentic AI - Hacker Noon

Gemma 4 on a 64GB Mac would probably run pretty well - Medium

Press 1 for propaganda: GOP campaigns deploy AI phone agents for voter outreach, outpacing Democrats - Axios

AI-generated political ads will make it harder for voters to spot fakes - The Washington Post

AI-generated rage bait spreads racist digital Blackface across social media, rots your brain by design. - LEVEL Man

Educators learn to spot AI-generated text by its predictable 'Wikipedia Voice' - CNET

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think - the Guardian

CoachLLM: AI-generated influencers 'flood' Coachella - The Verge

Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers - Yahoo

Schrodinger’s benchmark: Quantum and AI begin to converge in hybrid computing experiments - Verdict

Proof left as an exercise for ChatGPT: The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived. AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning. - Quanta Magazine

A humanoid robot chasing wild boars through Warsaw has become Poland’s latest viral sensation. “Edward Warchocki” has racked up hundreds of millions of views as he patrols streets, chats with locals, and turns heads across the capital.

A new robotic hand - YouTube

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