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Samsung aims to catch up to Chinese rivals for thin foldable phones as Apple said to enter the fray

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-03-12 02:34:22

Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold6 at its Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris. The tech giant said the foldable device is thinner and lighter than its predecessor. Samsung will unveil a thinner version of its flagship foldable smartphone at a launch likely set to take place next month, as it battles Chinese rivals to deliver the slimmest devices to the market. Folding phones, which have a single screen that can fold in half, came in focus when Samsung first launched such a device in 2019. But Chin

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TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 02:50:47

Unleashing what’s next in American innovation Today, TI is the largest foundational semiconductor manufacturer in the U.S., producing analog and embedded processing chips that are critical for smartphones, vehicles, data centers, satellites and nearly every other electronic device. In order to meet the steadily growing demand for these essential chips, TI is building on its legacy of technology leadership and expanding its U.S. manufacturing presence to help its customers pioneer the next wave

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As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-11 01:08:12

Hey kids! Ready to evoke the rich tapestry of the human experience with your favorite toys by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence? Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, has inked a deal with OpenAI to use its AI tools to not only help design toys but power them, Bloomberg reports. Details are scant at this point. In a joint interview, Mattel chief franchise officer Josh Silverman and OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said the collab is at an early stage,

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T-Mobile Debuts New Prepaid Plans With 5-Year Price Guarantee

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-12 12:25:21

T-Mobile has debuted new prepaid plans with a bump in data for its cheapest month-to-month plans, but the big upgrade is T-Mobile's guarantee that its prices won't change for the next five years, a feature on some of the best phone plans. T-Mobile introduced its five-year price guarantee on its premium plans back in April to appeal to subscribers wary of rising costs. As consumers worry about tariff-related price increases and the potential of a recession, it's a savvy move for the carrier to e

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‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-12 17:59:53

Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI’s new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood. Altman, who describes himself as “extremely kid pilled,” said he was “constantly” using ChatGPT to ask questions about the behavior of babies during the first few weeks of his son

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Voi CEO says he’s open to acquiring Bolt’s micromobility business

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-03-13 00:20:25

Shared micromobility startup Voi is on the hunt for acquisitions. And on CEO Frederik Hjelm’s wishlist is Bolt, the European mobility super-app best known for ride-hailing. Not that Bolt’s micromobility business is necessarily for sale — despite talk of Voi buying the company’s scooter and bike arm. Bolt declined to comment when TechCrunch reached out. “Bolt is a great company, but they are mainly a ride-hailing company,” Hjelm told TechCrunch on stage at the Micromobility Industries roundtabl

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Third Time Is the Charm? Trump Plans To Again Extend TikTok Deadline

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 04:25:00

The clock just never seems to run out for TikTok. President Donald Trump says he'll "probably" extend the deadline yet again for the wildly popular social media app to sell itself or face a federal ban. "We probably have to get China approval. I think we'll get it," Trump said, speaking to the press aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. "I think President Xi will ultimately approve it." Also on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump would sign an execu

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xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-03-13 04:24:12

The Colossus data center operated by xAI outside of Memphis is facing a lawsuit for operating a fleet of natural gas turbines without permits. “Over the past year, xAI has installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines and other sources of air pollution at the Colossus site without ever obtaining the necessary preconstruction or operating air permits,” the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) wrote in a letter to xAI. The legal group submitted the letter on behalf of the NAACP. It

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Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-13 08:59:02

Residents of New York City will soon start seeing Waymo cars cruising the avenues. But at least for now, a human will be in the driver's seat. Alphabet 's self-driving car unit announced on Wednesday that it plans to drive vehicles manually in New York, marking the first step toward potentially cracking the largest U.S. city. Waymo said it applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate autonomously with a trained specialist behind the wheel in Manhattan. "W

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T-Mobile’s new prepaid plans look great on paper, but is there a catch?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-13 08:42:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T‑Mobile is shaking up its prepaid offerings with three plans, ranging from $40 to $60 per month for one line. The new plans largely look like an upgrade, but there are a few possible catches around prioritization and family discounts. The new plans look similar to what you’ll find from other prepaid plans based on T-Mobile’s network, though whether they are better or not remains unseen until we know a bit more. Earlier this year, T-Mobile unveiled its ne

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Meta is offering up to $100 million to lure AI talent, says OpenAI's Sam Altman

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-13 16:26:00

Rumor mill: In the escalating race for artificial intelligence dominance, Meta has launched an aggressive recruitment campaign, offering top researchers compensation packages that have stunned the tech world. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company is building a new "superintelligence" team and has reportedly offered salaries worth up to $100 million to lure talent from rivals such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind. The recruitment drive has a personal element: former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang hea

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Pro-Israel hackers destroy $90 million in Iran crypto exchange breach, analytics firm says

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-03-13 16:55:24

Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, was hacked for more than $90 million Wednesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The funds were drained from platform wallets into addresses bearing anti-government messages explicitly referencing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, pointing to a politically motivated cyberattack, Elliptic said. Pro-Israel hacking group Gonjeshke Darande, or "Predatory Sparrow," claimed responsibility for the attack and said it wou

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Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran’s largest crypto exchange

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-03-13 16:18:36

Iran’s largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, said Wednesday that it was hacked and funds have been drained from its hot wallet. In a statement on its website translated by TechCrunch, Nobitex said it detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure and hot wallet, in which the company stores a portion of its customers’ cryptocurrency. The company said it was investigating the incident, and that its website and app would be unavailable for the foreseeable future. Public records show the hackers s

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Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with help from AI

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-03-13 20:13:10

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images Klarna's CEO is so bullish about artificial intelligence that he sees it changing the way the fintech's 100 million users bank every day. On Wednesday, Klarna — a pioneer of the popular "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) payment method — is announcing the launch of mobile phone plans in the U.S. via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs. The mo

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Oura, Maven Clinic team up to bring biometric data into clinical care

cnbc.com Ian Thomas 2026-03-13 20:31:47

That shift prompted Maven's new partnership with Oura, also a three-time Disruptor 50 company, which was ranked No. 23 on the 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 list and has been on its own path of wellness and preventive health via its eponymous Ring in recent years. Ryder said that a recent survey of Maven Clinic members found that nearly three out of four members are tracking their health regularly with some sort of device, and consumers are asking, "How do I take my health into my own hands with all th

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Thousands and Wildcard Alliance are raising $9M for novel blockchain gaming platform

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-13 20:00:00

There’s something new and surprising from the people who brought us Words With Friends and Lucky’s Tale. Thousands, a revolutionary Web3 protocol that transforms word-of-mouth marketing into a universal attribution infrastructure – together with sister company The Wildcard Alliance – today announced a joint $9 million fundraising round. Arbitrum Gaming Ventures and Paradigm co-led the round. The McKinney, Texas-based companies, founded by co-CEOs Paul and Katy Drake Bettner whose past work inc

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Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with AI

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-03-14 00:47:25

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images Klarna's CEO is so bullish about artificial intelligence that he sees it changing the way the fintech's 100 million users bank every day. On Wednesday, Klarna — a pioneer of the popular "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) payment method — is announcing the launch of mobile phone plans in the U.S. via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs. The mo

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OpenAI boss: Meta offering $100m plus to poach my staff

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-14 09:33:04

OpenAI boss: Meta offering $100m plus to poach my staff However Mr Altman said "at least so far" none of his "best people" had been persuaded to jump ship. Meta - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - is attempting to boost the artificial intelligence (AI) side of its business, including recently spending $14bn (£10.4bn) to buy 49% of the startup, Scale AI. The boss of OpenAI, Sam Altman, says members of his team have been getting "giant offers" from rival tech firm Meta, including $1

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Trump set to delay TikTok ban with yet another extension

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-14 09:51:52

In Brief U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday. The current extension, which was signed in April, was set to expire on Thursday, June 19. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to CBS News. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. T

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Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps up AI poaching efforts

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-03-14 09:40:32

Meta Platforms tried to poach OpenAI employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said. While Meta had sought to hire "a lot of people" from OpenAI, "so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on that," Altman said, speaking on the "Uncapped" podcast, which is hosted by his brother. "I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor," he said. "Their current AI effort

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Trump to extend US TikTok ban deadline, White House says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-14 12:55:01

Trump to extend US TikTok ban deadline, White House says TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the BBC. The popular video sharing app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner, ByteDance, refused to sell it to a US buyer by a January deadline. "President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. TikTok will live on for at least

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Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He's in Love With ChatGPT

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-14 15:05:05

Public declarations of emotion are one thing — but going on national television to declare that you're in love with your AI girlfriend is another entirely. In an interview with CBS News, a man named Chris Smith described himself as a former AI skeptic who found himself becoming emotionally attached to a version of ChatGPT he customized to flirt with him — a situation that startled both him and his human partner, with whom he shares a child. Towards the end of 2024, as Smith told the broadcaste

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Senate confirms Trump’s FCC pick, Olivia Trusty

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-03-14 16:37:34

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) being the on

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Xbox's AMD partnership sheds light on the future of the division's ecosystem

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-15 00:09:40

Microsoft has no plans to get out of the console business anytime soon. The company has been reiterating for a while that it's going to make at least one more generation of Xbox consoles. It's now been confirmed that AMD will power the upcoming hardware, as it did with the Xbox Series X/S. Xbox president Sarah Bond made the announcement in a short video. Under the multi-year partnership, Xbox and AMD are "advancing the state of art in gaming silicon to deliver the next generation of graphics in

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Tumblr’s content-filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-15 00:20:27

Tumblr is the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns that have gone haywire and raised the ire of users. In recent days, Tumblr users have complained their content is being flagged as “mature,” even when that’s not the case. The problem has reduced the visibility of users’ posts because many people on the platform have configured their settings to hide mature content by default. According to numerous posts from impacted Tumblr users, posts have been falsely flagge

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Canva expands from design into analytics with acquisition of MagicBrief

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-03-15 05:00:02

From left, Cliff Obrecht, Canva's co-founder and chief operating officer, and George Howes, co-founder and CEO of MagicBrief, pose for a photo at the Cannes Lions festival in Cannes, France, in June 2025. Canva has grown into a $32 billion startup through its popular design tools used for easily creating images, marketing material and presentations. Now the company, with its 12th acquisition, is buying its way into the analytics market. Canva said on Tuesday that it's buying MagicBrief, whose

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Tumblr’s content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-15 05:20:27

Tumblr is the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns that have gone haywire and raised the ire of users. In recent days, Tumblr users have complained their content is being flagged as “mature,” even when that’s not the case. The problem has reduced the visibility of users’ posts because many people on the platform have configured their settings to hide mature content by default. According to numerous posts from impacted Tumblr users, posts have been falsely flagge

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UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-16 04:44:52

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach 17 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the company - which has since filed for bankruptcy - failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident. "This was a profoundly damag

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Maestro Media kicks off Kickstarter for Clash of Clash tabletop game

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-16 04:00:00

Maestro Media formally launched its Kickstarter campaign for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell’s top-selling mobile game. The Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is starting today (June 17), but the team is already well under way on creating the tabletop game, said Javon Frazier, CEO of Maestro Media, in a GamesBeat interview for a story we ran last week. The Clash of Clans tabletop game is expected to come out in 2026. The Kickstarter has more than 12,000 foll

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UK watchdog fines 23andMe over 2023 data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-03-16 04:45:57

In Brief The U.K. data protection watchdog has fined 23andMe £2.31 million ($3.1m) for failing to protect U.K. residents’ personal and genetic data prior to its 2023 data breach. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said on Tuesday it has fined the genetic testing company as it “did not have additional verification steps for users to access and download their raw genetic data” at the time of its cyberattack. In 2023, hackers stole private data on more than 6.9 million users’ over a mon

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Samsung aims to catch up to Chinese rivals for thin foldable phones as Apple said to enter the fray

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Meta is offering up to $100 million to lure AI talent, says OpenAI's Sam Altman

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