Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more  —  GDC in San Francisco this week was full of job-seekers, co-development studios and AI  —  Hi everyone.

Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more  —  Nvidia's graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence …

Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance:
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  —  It's not just oil.  —  The near-standstill in the Strait of Hormuz is raising fears of a price surge for commodities used …

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
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  —  A new generation of investors doesn't want to wait for the traditional market open  —  While traditional energy investors spent …

The Information:
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month  —  ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2., due to a string of copyright disputes …