Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada  —  Apple on Tuesday announced that it will begin to allow advertisers to target customers on Apple Maps, starting in the U.S. and Canada later this summer.

Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center project in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away  —  Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent a data center project in Texas that was originally being developed for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI …

Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg:
Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays  —  Finland put on ice a plan to move its election platform to Amazon Web Services Inc., the latest development in Europe's drive …

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML  —  Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them.

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation  —  Halter, a New Zealand-based startup selling artificial intelligence-powered collars for cows, has raised $220 million from investors to expand …