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Techmeme - 2026-03-06T01:01:16-05:00

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) - 2026-03-06T01:00:37-05:00

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) - 2026-03-06T00:45:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-06T00:00:52-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T23:40:00-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T23:20:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T22:50:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T22:05:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T21:45:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T20:50:00-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T20:00:49-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T19:45:03-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T19:00:13-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T18:30:00-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T17:30:01-05:00

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) - 2026-03-05T16:25:01-05:00