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The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more (Politico) - 2026-03-20T09:15:06-04:00

Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue in 2025 and ~$41.6M in net profit (Jessica Sui/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-20T08:50:01-04:00

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 (Greg Bensinger/Reuters) - 2026-03-20T06:35:00-04:00

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the start of 2026 and employed ~445 people as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-20T05:55:07-04:00

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-20T05:50:04-04:00

Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) - 2026-03-20T05:05:01-04:00

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (The Block) - 2026-03-20T02:00:01-04:00

Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value in ~24 hours after investors punished the two Chinese tech leaders for unclear AI monetization plans (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-20T00:45:00-04:00

Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-20T00:00:49-04:00

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt) - 2026-03-19T23:30:02-04:00

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-19T23:10:01-04:00

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times) - 2026-03-19T22:50:01-04:00

How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker) - 2026-03-19T22:20:00-04:00

A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025 (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - 2026-03-19T21:45:00-04:00

MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) - 2026-03-19T21:05:02-04:00