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Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

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US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this quarter to 4M units, down ~33% from 6M, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Report: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm server chip with 3.2 GHz clock, and claims it to be "the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world" (Reuters)

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Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

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Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit as it commits another $30B to OpenAI (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (Wall Street Journal)

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The Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from the previous year (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries (Shannon K. Kingston/ABC News)

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Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's lawsuit against Meta over children's safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)

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Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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The FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been posted on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits "will work out of the box" (TechCrunch)

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Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)

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Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)

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Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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