A New Mexico jury ordered Meta Platforms to pay $375 million in civil penalties on March 24 after finding the company violated state consumer protection laws by misleading users about platform safety and knowingly enabling child sexual exploitation on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The Meta $375 million New Mexico verdict marks the first time a…
Elon Musk announced Terafab on March 22 at Austin’s Seaholm Power Plant—a $20-25 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility that he claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually, or roughly 50 times what all major chipmakers currently manufacture for AI applications. The Elon Musk Terafab chip factory Austin project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX,…
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Norwegian chipmaking equipment startup Lace Lithography announced $40 million in Series A funding on March 23, bringing total capital raised to over $60 million since its 2023 founding. The Lace helium lithography funding Microsoft-backed round, led by Atomico with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, will accelerate development of a revolutionary chip fabrication technology that…
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Promptfoo, an AI security startup, on March 9 to strengthen security capabilities in its Frontier enterprise platform. The OpenAI Promptfoo acquisition AI security deal brings tools for identifying vulnerabilities in AI agents—including prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leaks—directly into the infrastructure where enterprises build and operate autonomous AI systems. With…
UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale announced $2 billion in Series C funding on March 9, making it the largest Series C round in European history. The Nscale $2 billion funding Europe deal, led by Norwegian energy company Aker ASA and investment firm 8090 Industries, values the startup at $14.6 billion and brings total capital raised…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the SharePoint CVE-2026-20963 vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on March 18, confirming that attackers are actively exploiting the critical remote code execution flaw in the wild. Federal agencies have until March 21 to patch all vulnerable Microsoft SharePoint servers, while CISA strongly urges…
Qualcomm unveiled its first Wi-Fi 8-ready hardware portfolio at Mobile World Congress Barcelona on March 1, headlined by the FastConnect 8800 mobile connectivity system delivering peak speeds up to 11.6Gbps—double the performance of previous Wi-Fi 7 solutions. The Qualcomm Wi-Fi 8 chips MWC announcement also included five new Dragonwing networking infrastructure platforms and an ambitious…
Amazon quietly acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based robotics startup developing four-legged, wheeled delivery robots capable of climbing stairs and navigating difficult terrain, the company confirmed March 19. The Amazon Rivr acquisition robotics deal, announced through a notice sent to third-party delivery contractors rather than public press release, marks a strategic pivot toward autonomous last-mile delivery following…
Singapore and South Korea announced a strategic AI partnership on March 2 at the Korea-Singapore AI Connect Summit in Singapore, with plans to establish a $300 million global fund by 2030. The Singapore South Korea AI alliance represents Asia’s most significant bilateral technology collaboration, positioning both nations to compete more effectively against U.S. and Chinese…
Silicon Valley-based Frore Systems announced a $143 million Series D funding round on March 16, valuing the AI chip cooling startup at $1.64 billion and officially achieving unicorn status. The Frore Systems cooling chip funding, led by MVP Ventures with participation from Fidelity Management & Research, Qualcomm Ventures, and other major investors, brings total capital…
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw has become the fastest-growing software project in history, surpassing 250,000 GitHub stars in fewer than four months and eclipsing React as the most-starred non-aggregator software project ever. The OpenClaw AI agent viral phenomenon centers on autonomous capabilities that go far beyond conversation—it actually executes tasks on users’ computers, manages…