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Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January (Madison Mills/Axios)
 Geekom mini PC deal: 'Extremely powerful' AI mini computer crushed our benchmarks for office and content creation tasks - and it's got a $150 price cut at Best Buy
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
 Energy hungry Big Tech turn to carbon credits to fuel data centers while remaining committed to net-zero emissions
A livestream of Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California (NVIDIA on YouTube)
 How to watch Oscars 2026 for *FREE* — stream 98th Academy Awards from anywhere
 Samsung is slashing prices on its best-rated TVs ahead of March Madness — here are 11 deals I'd buy from $249.99
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
 'A classic honeypot': Movie fans catching up on Best Picture nominees targeted by dangerous malware ahead of of Oscars 2026
Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer a 1M context window at standard pricing; it is the default for Claude Code Max, Team, and Enterprise users on Opus 4.6 (Anthropic)
 Title: Meta’s massive undersea cable project has been put on hold by regional hostilities – 2Africa Pearls project suffers another setback
Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
 Amazon Spring Sale: This £92 HP 100Hz IPS monitor is the perfect budget upgrade for your home office
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
 NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, March 12 (game #739)
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
 Samsung's award-winning S90F OLED TV drops to an unbelievable price of £788 in Amazon's Spring Sale
The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)
 VPN Australia: Can you trust the country’s most popular age verification downloads?
OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)
 Here are 11 TV deals for watching March Madness that I recommend — $1,300 off 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)
 'What begins as a phone call from 'IT support' ends with a fully instrumented network compromise': This fake tech support scam tricks employees into infecting their own company devices
 Amazon's cheap 4K streaming stick drops to under $20 for the first time
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)
 ‘The biggest losers in all of this are everyday people and civilians in conflict zones’: OpenAI is filling the gap left by Anthropic — but almost left in the same loopholes for mass domestic surveillance
OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources)
Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments to any country (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
 Formula 1 2026 Predictions: Who will win Drivers' and Constructors' Championship?
Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the "supply-chain risk" designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue (Reuters)
 'A marriage of hue and form' — IKEA's donut-shaped Varmblixt smart lamp has started landing in stores early, and we can't wait to get our hands on it again
Sources: Anduril is seeking to raise about $4B in a round co-led by Thrive Capital and a16z, which could nearly double the startup's valuation to ~$60B (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
 The Ninja Foodi PossibleCooker is 'an excellent value multicooker' — and it's crashed to a record-low price on Amazon
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)
 Home Depot's spring sale has arrived — these are the backyard and home upgrades I'm buying
 AMD is taking the fight to Intel with its most powerful Epyc chips yet — Sorano packs in 84 Zen5 cores and could supercharge the next generation of mobile networks
Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)
 I’ve never had a life coach, so I decided to get one—this is what happened
 AT&T vs Verizon vs T-Mobile — which carrier has the strongest Galaxy S26 deal right now?
Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)
 As a lifelong Pokémon fan, the return of FireRed and LeafGreen has me feeling hopeful — now I need these 3 classic entries to land on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
 Security experts flag multiple issues in Claude Code, warning, 'As AI integration deepens, security controls must evolve to match the new trust boundaries'
Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China (Reuters)