Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots  —  Amazon is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots, according to two people who have talked to the company about its plans.

Wall Street Journal:
All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with “extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative” short-term PR  —  Startup's deal to do classified work with Defense Department drew backlash from staff and other AI researchers

The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming back online from a similar outage in February. The service disruption, impacting Oracle's Ashburn, Virginia data center, began early Tuesday afternoon, with Downdetector reports spiking around 1PM Eastern. TikTok USDS confirmed in a post on […]

Wildlight Entertainment's "raid shooter" Highguard is shutting down after under two months online. Servers go offline on March 12.

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Anthropic says voice mode for Claude Code is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks  —  Anthropic is bringing Voice Mode to Claude Code, the company's AI coding assistant for developers.  The launch of voice mode marks a significant step toward more hands-free …