Sunday, March 8, 2026

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia  —  Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens.



Israel-based ZyG, which is building an agentic OS to help scale DTC e-commerce brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Israel-based ZyG, which is building an agentic OS to help scale DTC e-commerce brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed  —  When it comes to product innovation, global brands have an enormous advantage over smaller companies thanks to their massive scale …



Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone  —  Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.



A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)

Elizabeth Gibney / Nature:
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv  —  - Elizabeth Gibney  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  All major large language models (LLMs) …



Saturday, March 7, 2026

Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B  —  Weapons maker Anduril expects to roughly double revenue this year to about $4.3 billion, while its operating loss would rise …



A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Simile, which offers “agentic twins” modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup  —  AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research



Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education  —  Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.



Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contrac...