March 22, 2026

An exclusive tour of Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple : Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal. Read More

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’: An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations. Read More

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?: Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win. Read More

Why Wall Street wasn't won over by Nvidia's big conference: Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility. Read More

Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows: The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps. Read More

Amid legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada: It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets. Read More

How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it: Fusion power promises to generate large amounts of clean electricity from nearly limitless fuel. This article explains the main approaches and the companies that use them. Read More

New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput: Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings and claims that were never actually raised during the months of negotiations. Read More

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A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava: A French naval officer went on a run around the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, inadvertently leaking the warship's location when he uploaded the workout to Strava. Read More

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