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Techmeme - 2026-03-10T07:30:42-04:00

Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T07:30:01-04:00

How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce (Josh Dzieza/The Verge) - 2026-03-10T07:15:02-04:00

AT&T says it plans to spend $250B+ over the next five years to build out its US infrastructure, including high-speed fiber; AT&T spent $21B on capex in 2025 (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T07:05:02-04:00

AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI agents, raised ~$190M led by Accel; Google bought Mandiant for $5.4B (Samantha Subin/CNBC) - 2026-03-10T06:55:00-04:00

An interview with Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos, promoted from CMO in December 2025, as the dating app hits 1.8M+ paying users, gaining ground while others struggle (Kieran Smith/Financial Times) - 2026-03-10T06:40:01-04:00

US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs delays Middle East imagery to two weeks from four days over concerns it could be used to target NATO members (Aaron Clark/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T06:25:03-04:00

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz) - 2026-03-10T06:05:00-04:00

Pentagon official Emil Michael says Anthropic's lawsuit is an "expected reaction" and "I don't think there's a scenario where this gets resolved in that way" (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T05:50:01-04:00

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-10T05:40:01-04:00

How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (Bloomberg) - 2026-03-10T03:50:00-04:00

How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams (Arielle Pardes/Wired) - 2026-03-10T02:00:33-04:00

Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) - 2026-03-10T01:15:00-04:00

Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, or ~25% of total iPhone production, as it shifts away from China amid tariffs (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg) - 2026-03-09T23:40:01-04:00

Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India, more than a decade after it moved to Singapore, as it prepares for a potential IPO in India in the coming months (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-03-09T22:55:00-04:00

Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago (The Information) - 2026-03-09T22:25:01-04:00