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Techmeme - 2026-03-07T01:35:50-05:00

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information) - 2026-03-07T01:35:01-05:00

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia) - 2026-03-07T01:25:00-05:00

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register) - 2026-03-07T00:50:01-05:00

US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times) - 2026-03-07T00:40:01-05:00

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider) - 2026-03-06T22:25:01-05:00

Alphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) - 2026-03-06T20:45:01-05:00

In a Twitter shareholder trial, former CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal disputed Musk's claims that they lied to him about the percentage of spam accounts (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-06T20:30:00-05:00

A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow "any lawful" use by the government of their models (Financial Times) - 2026-03-06T19:40:02-05:00

Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-06T19:10:01-05:00

The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations (Tim Starks/CyberScoop) - 2026-03-06T18:45:01-05:00

Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-06T18:00:00-05:00

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force (Noah Smith/Noahpinion) - 2026-03-06T17:20:01-05:00

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras could raise ~$2B in its IPO as soon as April; it withdrew its previous IPO registration in October, nearly a year after filing (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-06T16:50:02-05:00

IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-06T16:25:01-05:00

How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete (Forbes) - 2026-03-06T16:10:02-05:00