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Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

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How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC)

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Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce)

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Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech (Bloomberg)

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Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)

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Sandbar, which is developing the Stream ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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Leaked memo: a top Senate administrator gave aides the green light to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official Senate work, including preparing briefings (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)

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Internal doc: the State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, following Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts (Nextgov/FCW)

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Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; it was previously only available on the app for One Medical (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Sources: General Catalyst is in talks with investors to raise about $10B; it raised $8B in capital in 2024 and had more than $40B in AUM as of last summer (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

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Nitra, which offers a platform powered by AI agents to manage medical practices, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $205M (Catherina Gioino/Fortune)

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Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $17.19B, vs. $16.91B est., and cloud revenue up 44% to $8.9B, vs. $8.85B est.; ORCL jumps 8%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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MoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)

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Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)

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