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Techmeme - 2026-03-09T04:35:32-04:00

A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50%+ of the adults used generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used (Mary McDougall/Financial Times) - 2026-03-09T04:15:01-04:00

A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-09T03:50:00-04:00

Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software (Aaron Levie/@levie) - 2026-03-09T01:45:01-04:00

Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-08T23:35:01-04:00

The US-led war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information) - 2026-03-08T21:50:00-04:00

How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (New York Times) - 2026-03-08T20:25:16-04:00

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review) - 2026-03-08T18:40:09-04:00

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) - 2026-03-08T16:55:06-04:00

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-08T15:15:01-04:00

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-08T13:50:01-04:00

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-08T12:25:06-04:00

ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - 2026-03-08T11:20:01-04:00

MacBook Neo thoughts, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources say Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-08T10:00:01-04:00

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature) - 2026-03-08T08:00:14-04:00

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-08T03:00:02-04:00