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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

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Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four-year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers (Financial Times)

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WhatsApp adds parent-managed accounts for users under the age of 13 and says the accounts will not get access to features like Meta AI, Channels, or Status (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered factory robots, raised $500M led by Accel and a16z, source says at a $2B valuation (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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Axiamatic, which offers an "agentic control plane" to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Kai, which is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform, raised $125M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

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Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking (Bloomberg)

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Investors flee to Magnificent Seven stocks due to the US-led war in Iran; tech is up 1.5% from February 27, the only S&P 500 sector to rise since the strikes (Financial Times)

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Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K+ in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition yet; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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TikTok partners with Apple to let Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the TikTok app, and use a Listening Party feature, in the coming weeks (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)

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Binance files a New York defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iran-linked transactions (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

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Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major upgrades, and no Qi2 charging magnets (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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