Microsoft’s Cove Acqui-Hire: Third Strike Leaves Investors With Zero
Microsoft hired the entire team from Cove, a Sequoia-backed AI collaboration startup, on March 18, 2026. Cove’s product shuts down April 1. Sequoia ...
Trump Bans Anthropic Claude After “Woke AI” Standoff With Pentagon
Trump’s executive order banning Anthropic Claude from federal agencies marks the first government blacklist of ...
LeCun’s $1B Bet: World Models Will Replace LLMs
While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pour billions into scaling ChatGPT’s successors, the godfather of deep ...
MacBook Neo at $599: Apple Shocks PC Makers with Budget Mac
Apple's MacBook Neo at $599 uses iPhone's A18 Pro chip to undercut Windows laptops. PC ...
Honda Kills $15.7B EV Strategy After Trump Policy Shift
Honda just incinerated $15.7 billion. On March 12, the automaker canceled three electric vehicles—the 0 ...
Meta’s $2B Lobbying: Age Verification Laws Exposed
A Reddit investigation published March 16, 2026 exposed Meta’s $2 billion lobbying campaign to mandate age verification technology across US states. Researcher “upper-up” ...
SEC Quarterly Reporting: Does Ending It Fix Short-Termism?
SEC proposes scrapping quarterly reporting to stop short-term thinking. UK tried this in 2014—investment didn't ...
Pentagon Labels Anthropic Security Risk Over AI Ethics
Anthropic became the first US AI company designated a supply chain risk after refusing Pentagon ...
Nscale Raises $2B: Europe’s Largest Funding Round for AI
U.K.-based AI infrastructure company Nscale raised $2 billion in Series C funding announced on March ...
Pentagon Blacklist Backfires: Claude Revenue Hits $20B Run-Rate
The Pentagon’s attempt to blacklist Anthropic backfired in spectacular fashion. When the Department of Defense ...