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March 13, 2026 — 8 articles Snapshot updated Mar 13, 1:00 PM CDT

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The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’
TechCrunch Mar 13, 11:20 AM CDT

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 20...

How to Build an Autonomous Machine Learning Research Loop in Google Colab Using Andrej Karpathy’s AutoResearch Framework for Hyperparameter Discovery and Experiment Tracking
MarkTechPost Mar 12, 5:46 PM CDT

In this tutorial, we implement a Colab-ready version of the AutoResearch framework originally proposed by Andrej Karpathy. We build an automated experimentation pipeline that clones the AutoResearch repository, prepares a lightweight training environment, and runs a baseline experiment to establi...

Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
Wired Mar 12, 1:15 PM CDT

WIRED spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of knowledge and information, about how AI is changing the company’s advertising business.