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Techmeme - 2026-03-11T04:20:53-04:00

Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T04:20:01-04:00

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T03:55:03-04:00

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T02:30:21-04:00

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times) - 2026-03-11T02:00:52-04:00

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register) - 2026-03-11T01:25:02-04:00

Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) - 2026-03-11T01:20:01-04:00

Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T01:10:01-04:00

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword) - 2026-03-11T00:55:01-04:00

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information) - 2026-03-11T00:45:13-04:00

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-10T23:10:00-04:00

A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T22:40:00-04:00

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum) - 2026-03-10T22:00:46-04:00

How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC) - 2026-03-10T21:00:58-04:00

Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce) - 2026-03-10T20:00:52-04:00

Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T19:20:04-04:00