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Techmeme - 2026-03-17T12:16:21-04:00

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-17T12:15:38-04:00

Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge) - 2026-03-17T12:10:00-04:00

Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies monitor security across cloud providers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed and a $31M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) - 2026-03-17T11:55:01-04:00

Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - 2026-03-17T11:31:40-04:00

World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-17T11:25:01-04:00

Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) - 2026-03-17T10:40:01-04:00

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (The Information) - 2026-03-17T09:55:02-04:00

Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, joining Tencent and Alibaba in racing to capitalize on agentic AI (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-17T09:50:01-04:00

IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent; IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he expects IBM will maintain or grow its head count over five years (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-17T09:40:00-04:00

Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-17T09:33:43-04:00

Q&A with Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara on suing the US government, solving market making, agentic and insider trading, ethics, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint) - 2026-03-17T09:05:00-04:00

PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and the UK to 70 countries in total, including Colombia, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Uganda, and Malawi (Ben Weiss/Fortune) - 2026-03-17T08:45:28-04:00

Mastercard agrees to acquire London-based stablecoin payments infra startup BVNK for up to $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 (Reuters) - 2026-03-17T08:35:01-04:00

Enterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-17T08:20:06-04:00

Darton Commodities: the global cobalt shortage is set to persist through 2030, after Congo limited exports in 2025; the DRC accounts for 70%+ of global supply (Annie Lee/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-17T08:10:01-04:00