AI scammers on Amazon duped investors out of millions with 'passive income' scheme, FTC alleges

Investors fear that market turmoil will no longer rein in Trump

Also in today’s newsletter, meet the revered Wall Street veteran with two protégés planted in the president’s inner circle

Financial Times - Mar. 11

Investors buoyed by signs of cooling U.S. inflation

Wall Street breathes a sigh of relief after a new report showed inflation slowed last month by more than expected.

CBS News - Mar. 12

Stocks sink as investors fret over volley of tariffs

U.S. stocks resume slide as President Trump threatens to hit the European Union with 200% tariff.

CBS News - Mar. 13

Investors get the jitters over Trump’s approach to dollar

President expressed frustration about greenback’s strength before taking office, but its decline is not by design

Financial Times - Mar. 14

Investors should take stock of the shift in volatility

Dispersion in the performance of companies is increasing relative to broader moves in indices

Financial Times - Mar. 14

Why Stories, Not Metrics, Turn Investors Into Advocates

From pitch meeting to board meeting, a strong story is an entrepreneur’s secret weapon.

Inc. - 4d

E.U. Hatches a Plan to Lure Investors Back to Europe

Each year, Europeans invest roughly $325 billion in companies and financial assets outside the region. Officials in Brussels say they have a plan to end that “capital flight.”

The New York Times - 2d

Gilt investors brace for nearly £310bn in debt sales

Near-record total will be a test of market confidence in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

Financial Times - 1d

Wealth managers dump investment trust shares

But retail investors buy into the troubled sector

Financial Times - Mar. 8

Cybersecurity officials warn against potentially costly Medusa ransomware attacks

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning email users against a dangerous ransomware scheme

ABC News - 5d

Nvidia’s GTC 2025 will feature AI’s brightest minds and draw 25K attendees in person

Nvidia today announced GTC 2025, the world’s premier AI conference, will return March 17 to March 21 to San Jose, California.

VentureBeat - Mar. 5

How Yelp reviewed competing LLMs for correctness, relevance and tone to develop its user-friendly AI assistant

Yelp found that when it first launched a GPT-4o-powered AI chatbot, usage rates dropped. But training it to sound like a human changed that.

VentureBeat - Mar. 7

AI made its way to vineyards. Here's how the technology is helping make your wine

As AI continues to grow, experts say that the wine industry is proof that businesses can integrate the technology efficiently to supplement labor without displacing a workforce

ABC News - Mar. 10

Celine Dion warns fans about 'fake and not approved' AI-generated music credited to her

Celine Dion warns fans that 'new' music circulating online was generated by AI, not by the singer. 'These recordings are fake and not approved,' her team says.

Los Angeles Times - Mar. 10

OpenAI to pay CoreWeave $11.9 billion over five years for AI data centers, services

Ahead of CoreWeave's upcoming IPO, the provider of data centers for AI has signed a five-year deal with OpenAI worth almost $12 billion.

CNBC - Mar. 10

Major AI market share shift revealed: DALL-E plummets 80% as Black Forest Labs dominates 2025 data

New data reveals dramatic AI market share shifts in 2025 as Black Forest Labs and DeepSeek challenge OpenAI and Google's dominance.

VentureBeat - Mar. 10

Nous Research just launched an API that gives developers access to AI models that OpenAI and Anthropic won’t build

Nous Research's new API for "unrestricted" Hermes 3 and DeepHermes-3 AI models features toggle-on reasoning and a developer-first approach.

VentureBeat - Mar. 12

51 seconds to breach: How CISOs are countering AI-driven, lightning-fast deepfake, vishing and social engineering attacks

Attackers can breach a network in 51 seconds. CISOs fight back with zero-trust, AI-based threat detection & instant session token revocation.

VentureBeat - 6d

Lovelace Studio uses AI to help players build survival craft sandbox worlds

Lovelace Studio is using generative AI to build Nyric, a tool that can help bring gaming worlds to life for player builders who work in harmony.

VentureBeat - 6d

Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap

A new framework inspired by the RICE scoring model balances business value, time-to-market, scalability and risk for your first AI project.

VentureBeat - 5d

Telcos race to transition from 'dumb pipes' to tech players with help from AI

Telcos are talking up efforts to transform themselves into tech players, touting advances in AI, 5G and 6G networks, satellite internet and even smart cities.

CNBC - 4d

Visa’s AI edge: How RAG-as-a-service and deep learning are strengthening security and speeding up data retrieval

Visa has reduced data retrieval from hours to mere minutes and blocked $40 billion in fraud thanks to gen AI tools.

VentureBeat - 3d

Omeda Studios launches update for Predecessor MOBA as players surpass 2 million

Omeda Studios has announced its player count has crossed two million as it launches a new 1.4 update for the MOBA Predecessor.

VentureBeat - Mar. 7

'47 Ronin' director arrested on suspicion of bilking Netflix to the tune of $11 million

Carl Rinsch allegedly defrauded Netflix of $11 million intended for a series that was never finished. Arrested in West Hollywood, he faces trial in New York.

Los Angeles Times - 1d

AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce

The new digital ‘mantra’ prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials. AI should replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard, ...

The Guardian - Mar. 12