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Techmeme - 2026-03-11T19:10:56-04:00

Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, TX, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans at the site (The Information) - 2026-03-11T18:35:05-04:00

Sources: PayPay priced its US IPO at $16 per share, below its targeted price range of between $17 and $20; the IPO raised $880M, valuing the company at $10.7B (Echo Wang/Reuters) - 2026-03-11T18:10:01-04:00

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired) - 2026-03-11T17:50:01-04:00

Microsoft says that Windows 11 Xbox mode, a controller-first, full-screen gaming interface, will begin rolling out in April and work across all PC form factors (Abhijith M B/Windows Latest) - 2026-03-11T16:55:01-04:00

Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out "alpha versions" of Project Helix to developers in 2027 (The Verge) - 2026-03-11T16:45:00-04:00

Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer (Ina Fried/Axios) - 2026-03-11T16:40:03-04:00

Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T16:35:01-04:00

Sources: the foldable iPhone will feature an iPad-like interface for its iPad mini-sized inner display and have an outer screen the size of a small iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T16:25:04-04:00

FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticizes the slow pace of Amazon's satellite launches, after Amazon raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to launch up to 1M satellites (David Shepardson/Reuters) - 2026-03-11T15:35:02-04:00

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) - 2026-03-11T15:25:01-04:00

US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-03-11T15:10:01-04:00

Sources: Ripple kicks off a share buyback at a $50B valuation to repurchase up to $750M in shares from investors and employees in a tender offer through April (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T15:00:41-04:00

Anthropic says Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now share full context across open files, and skills are available inside Excel and PowerPoint add-ins (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) - 2026-03-11T14:50:02-04:00

Amazon raised €14.5B in its euro bond market debut, the biggest ever corporate deal in the currency, following a dollar offering on Tuesday that raised $37B (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-11T14:30:00-04:00

WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-11T14:15:01-04:00