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Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
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AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year (Yue Wang/Forbes)
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A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
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An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)
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Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (Bloomberg)
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Speaking at a Beijing forum, Tim Cook praised Apple's partners and developers in China, a week after Chinese state media labeled the App Store "monopolistic" (Bloomberg)
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Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
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How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)
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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
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Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)