AT&T suffered its second high-profile incident of the year when customers spent hours unable to call people on other carriers — a failure of the unglamorous interconnection plumbing that makes separate networks feel like one phone system. The week also delivered an early warning that would define the summer: security researchers tied a wave of Snowflake cloud-account breaches to infostealer malware and missing multi-factor authentication, with Ticketmaster and Santander already implicated. And Nvidia blew past $3 trillion in market value, overtaking Apple as the AI trade rewrote the market's hierarchy. The FCC, meanwhile, proposed the first real rules for securing the internet's routing system.
Europe drew first blood in its year of platform enforcement: the European Commission fined Apple more than €1.8 billion for suppressing music-streaming rivals — the company's first EU antitrust penalty — three days before the Digital Markets Act's compliance deadline forced open the iPhone's walled garden across the bloc. Anthropic escalated the frontier-model race with Claude 3, claiming benchmark parity with GPT-4. And on Super Tuesday of all days, Meta's platforms went dark worldwide for hours — logging out Facebook's billions and reminding everyone how much civic infrastructure now runs on one company's login system.