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Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)
Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders (Financial Times)
An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)
Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a "narrow scope", and apologizes for the leaked memo (Anthropic)
Google has quietly released an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and other apps (Ben Patterson/PCWorld)
Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue last year, calling it "the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Sources: the US is considering requiring countries whose companies buy large volumes of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to invest in US AI infrastructure (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025 (The Information)
Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic says it will challenge Defense Department's supply chain risk designation in court
X's Exclusive Threads feature lets creators paywall the end of tweet threads
Amazon.com is on the mend after experiencing technical issues
COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time
Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games
How to watch Frost Fatales 2026, kicking off on March 8
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Google reportedly muzzles Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney until 2032
Roku is launching a trivia game called... Roklue?
Netflix just bought an AI startup founded by Ben Affleck
Meta hit with a class action lawsuit over smart glasses' privacy claims
I hope you like spreadsheets, because GPT-5.4 loves them
The National Videogame Museum has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation
Google begins calling out battery-killing Android apps
Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change
Canadian government says OpenAI will take further steps to strengthen safety protocols
Oura buys gesture-navigation startup DoublePoint
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: The stealth upgrade
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 this spring
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Anthropic is reportedly back in talks with the Defense Department
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Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers
Mark Zuckerberg downplays Meta's own research in New Mexico child safety trial
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower begins nuclear reactor construction
Assassin's Creed Unity is getting a free 60 fps patch tomorrow
LG reveals pricing for its 2026 OLED TVs
Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
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OpenAI brings its Codex coding app to Windows
Ubisoft confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake
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Humble Games' former bosses buy the studio's back catalog
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