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Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 Facebook

Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Reddit

Facebook and Instagram owner enabled child sexual exploitation (www.rt.com)
2026-3-26 Facebook Instagram

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-3-26 YouTube Social Media

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (www.nytimes.com)
2026-3-26 YouTube

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-26 YouTube

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Google

Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-26 Google Apple

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (research.google)
2026-3-26 Google Algorithm

Sources: worsening supply constraints in CPUs made by Intel and AMD add a fresh blow to PC and server makers already hit by a severe memory chip shortage (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-3-25 Intel AMD

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI Spotify

Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a “buy now” button for Facebook ads (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-25 Facebook Instagram

Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-25 Android Google

Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-25 Amazon Robot New York

A War of Deep Intel (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-3-25 Intel

Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its “open infrastructure” from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-25 Android Google

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-25 Microsoft Oracle Texas

Microsoft fixes bug causing Classic Outlook sync issues with Gmail (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-25 Microsoft

Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch (www.ft.com)
2026-3-25 Amazon San Francisco Vegas

Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-24 Amazon Drone Iran

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 Uber Interview

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-3-24 Android Google AI chatbot Chrome

Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-3-24 Microsoft AI

Uber's Deal Blitz To Stop a Robotaxi Monopoly (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-24 Uber

Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-3-24 Google AI

Reddit Is Weighing Identity Verification Methods To Combat Its Bot Problem (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-24 Reddit

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-3-24 Intel

Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-24 Android Amazon

London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-24 Uber London

Microsoft Exchange Online service change causes email access issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-23 Microsoft

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