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Techmeme - 2026-03-19T01:30:55-04:00

Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) - 2026-03-19T01:30:01-04:00

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools (Stephen Foley/Financial Times) - 2026-03-19T01:15:02-04:00

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (South China Morning Post) - 2026-03-19T00:55:02-04:00

Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (Oma Seddiq/Bloomberg Law) - 2026-03-19T00:45:01-04:00

Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang) - 2026-03-19T00:30:01-04:00

Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an "AI-native" design canvas and a reasoning design agent (Rustin Banks/The Keyword) - 2026-03-19T00:25:01-04:00

AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-18T23:55:01-04:00

Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (Reuters) - 2026-03-18T23:45:02-04:00

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired) - 2026-03-18T22:35:01-04:00

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic) - 2026-03-18T21:50:01-04:00

LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider) - 2026-03-18T21:10:01-04:00

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (Anirban Sen/Reuters) - 2026-03-18T20:35:01-04:00

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) - 2026-03-18T20:25:01-04:00

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (Laurent Giret/Thurrott) - 2026-03-18T19:35:01-04:00

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - 2026-03-18T19:05:01-04:00