Trump-Backed World Liberty Puts $5.3 Million Price Tag on ‘Guaranteed Access’ to Team
The Trump family’s World Liberty Financial approved a measure that lets big-time WLFI investors access members of its team.
Month: March 2026
The dictionary sues OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.
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Encyclopedia Britannica is suing OpenAI for allegedly ‘memorizing’ its content with ChatGPT
On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were “substantially similar” to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, “GPT-4 itself has ‘memorized’ much … Read more
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max and 4K Plus sticks are up to 50 percent off
Since Amazon rolled out its redesigned Fire TV OS, Amazon’s latest streaming sticks are even better than ever. And right now, both the Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Fire TV Stick 4K Plus are back at their best prices yet during Amazon’s early Big Spring Sale event. You can buy the Fire TV Stick … Read more
Introducing Disaggregated Inference on AWS powered by llm-d
We thank Greg Pereira and Robert Shaw from the llm-d team for their support in bringing llm-d to AWS. In the agentic and reasoning era, large language models (LLMs) generate 10x more tokens and compute through complex reasoning chains compared to single-shot replies. Agentic AI workflows also create highly variable demands and another exponential increase in … Read more
‘Operation Atlantic’: US Secret Service Teams With UK, Canada to Stop Crypto Fraud
The Secret Service is working together with U.K. and Canadian law enforcement agencies in a bid to stop crypto fraud schemes.
The SaaS Apocalypse Is OpenSource’s Greatest Opportunity
AI just collapsed the cost of building software In 2026, nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from software stocks. Hedge funds made billions shorting companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. Meanwhile, a CNBC reporter with no engineering background opened Claude Code, described a project management tool in plain English, and had a working prototype integrated with … Read more
Abra targets Nasdaq listing in $750M deal with New Providence SPAC
Crypto wealth manager Abra plans a Nasdaq debut through a SPAC merger, joining a growing wave of digital asset companies tapping public markets for capital.
Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate sparks debate about its role, priorities
The document quickly sparked debate across the Ethereum community, with supporters saying it reinforces the network’s core principles. Critics, however, argue the mandate signals the foundation intends to take a backseat just as institutional interest in blockchain is accelerating.
Crypto Firm Abra to Go Public on Nasdaq in $750 Million SPAC Deal
Crypto wealth manager Abra is going public at a $750 million valuation—but regulators have repeatedly taken issue with how it does business.
Your User Is Blindfolded and Swinging a Golf Club: Designing for VR
When I moved from designing for web and mobile to designing for VR, my first reality check came from the most mundane thing imaginable: typing an email address. This takes less than ten seconds on a phone. But when you have to do it letter by letter, pointing trembling lasers at a floating virtual keyboard, … Read more
Circle is up 100% in a month: Why this boring stablecoin stock is suddenly the hottest trade in crypto
The stablecoin issuer has rallied as analysts point to growing demand for USDC, a higher interest-rate environment and the rapid expansion of tokenized assets.
US, UK, Canada launch joint operation to disrupt crypto fraud
Dubbed “Operation Atlantic,“ the effort involves law enforcement agencies from the three countries and is aimed at preventing phishing attacks involving cryptocurrencies.
CertiK Exposes the Security Gap No One in OpenClaw’s Marketplace Wants to Talk About
What happens when the security system watching your AI agent’s marketplace cannot tell the difference between a vulnerable Skill and a safe one? That is not a rhetorical question anymore. On March 16, 2026, researchers at CertiK, the firm founded by Yale and Columbia professors that has detected over 180,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code, published … Read more
Who the AI Works For
What Gibson saw coming about AI, infrastructure, and corporate power Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. n William Gibson, Neuromancer The previous article ended with a question: who gets to decide how the machine changes things, and who doesn’t? This article will try to answer it: not with a villain. With a system. The … Read more
Antonio Gracias says he’s longing for ‘proentropic’ startups — those that are built to survive chaos
Antonio Gracias talks at the Upfront Summit in LA about the future of technology.
Shopify is preparing for AI shopping agents to change everything, exec says
Shopify is preparing for an ecommerce transformation via AI shopping agents, says president Harley Finklestein.
Vibe Coding Is an Addiction
It’s 11 PM on a Tuesday and you’re four hours into building a web app that nobody asked for. You started with a vague idea after seeing someone’s tweet about a gap in the market, opened Claude Code, described what you wanted in plain English, and watched a full-stack application materialize in front of you. … Read more
Scientists Built a GPU Engine That Simulates Brain Cells 1,500× Faster
:::info Authors: Yichen Zhang Gan He Lei Ma Xiaofei Liu J. J. Johannes Hjorth Alexander Kozlov Yutao He Shenjian Zhang Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski Yonghong Tian Sten Grillner Kai Du Tiejun Huang ::: Abstract Biophysically detailed multi-compartment models are powerful tools to explore computational principles of the brain and also serve as a theoretical framework to … Read more