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Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate...

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate...

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Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est.,...

Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above...

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying "AI is changing how we work" (Reuters)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting...

Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs,...

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Can solar cars become mainstream?

Can solar cars become mainstream?

The energy crisis caused by the Iran war has been a wake-up call and prompted governments...

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Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm (Bloomberg)

Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI...

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now...

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Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M...

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M...

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Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise...

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on...

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GameStop makes $56 billion bid to take over eBay in hopes of building Amazon rival

GameStop makes $56 billion bid to take over eBay in hopes...

Video game retail company and meme stock champion GameStop has made an offer to...

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Musk vs. Altman: Battle of the tech bros underway in California courthouse

Musk vs. Altman: Battle of the tech bros underway in California...

It's being called the most consequential courtroom drama Silicon Valley has ever...

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Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign...

Pieter Haeck / Politico: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign...

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Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between $115 and $125 and go public with the "CBRS" ticker; Cerebras is targeting a $40B valuation (Reuters)

Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between...

Reuters: Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between $115 and $125...

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Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that US export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators...

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators...

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JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents (Financial Times)

JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50%...

Financial Times: JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030,...

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Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)

Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's...

Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's...

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A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)

A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early...

Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early...

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Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally...

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms...

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A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned...

Rachyl Jones / Semafor: A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned...

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An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)

An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags...

NIST: An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US...

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A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player "whales" spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms (Bloomberg)

A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some...

Bloomberg: A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states,...

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Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 (The Information)

Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference...

The Information: Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips...

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Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (Bloomberg)

Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing...

Bloomberg: Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US...

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A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents...

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed...

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Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses...

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Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay...

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer...

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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund...

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B...

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The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters)

The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up...

Mike Stone / Reuters: The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to...

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Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that's raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for...

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Musk vs Altman: Beyond battle of egos, who gets final say on AI?

Musk vs Altman: Beyond battle of egos, who gets final say...

Is it just another billionaires' battle of egos or does the $150 billion lawsuit...

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Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B, vs. $3.25B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; WDC drops 7%+ after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B,...

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B,...

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Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April 24 and lifting its market cap past $470B, closing out the chipmaker's best month on record (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Intel shares jumped 114% in April, hitting a record on April...

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Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports...

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Crude oil prices hit four-year high as Iran war threatens to drag on

Crude oil prices hit four-year high as Iran war threatens...

Brent crude has jumped to its highest level since the start of the Ukraine war after...

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Are fans being priced out of live gigs?

Are fans being priced out of live gigs?

A spate of high-profile stadium tours by stars like Céline Dion, Taylor Swift and...

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Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot (Laura J. Nelson/Wall Street Journal)

Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two...

Laura J. Nelson / Wall Street Journal: Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California...

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Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service, raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and signs a deal to bring its platform to Accenture clients (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service,...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service,...

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Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500+ at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets (Financial Times)

Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined...

Financial Times: Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as...

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'Uncertainty but a lot of resilience' in Latin America, says IDB head

'Uncertainty but a lot of resilience' in Latin America,...

The energy shock and economic headwinds caused by the Iran war have increased uncertainty...

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Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to...

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Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round at a $900B+ valuation, after previously resisting investor proposals at an $800B+ valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round...

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round at a $900B+...

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Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a "fool" for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a "fool" for backing...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool”...

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UAE leaves OPEC in blow to oil cartel

UAE leaves OPEC in blow to oil cartel

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1, in...

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TotalEnergies profits surge amid Iran war, sparking calls for windfall tax

TotalEnergies profits surge amid Iran war, sparking calls...

TotalEnergies on Wednesday said its first quarter net profit rose 51 percent, boosted...

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Why is the UAE choosing to leave OPEC?

Why is the UAE choosing to leave OPEC?

OPEC faces a double crisis as it manages both the energy shock caused by the closure...

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UAE leaves OPEC in a blow to oil cartel

UAE leaves OPEC in a blow to oil cartel

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1, in...

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Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B...

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs....

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Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to $134M, vs. $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs....

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs....

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Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple...

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered...

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An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025,...

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025,...

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Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas (Financial Times)

Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout;...

Financial Times: Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says...

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Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a "crucible" moment for Snap, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important...

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution...

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Musk vs Altman: two tech mavericks go head to head in OpenAI trial

Musk vs Altman: two tech mavericks go head to head in OpenAI...

Two of Silicon Valley's best known tech moguls, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are going...

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The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are "unwarranted intervention" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening...

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at...

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GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based...

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based...

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Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT...

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Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial...

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial...

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Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms, calling for standardized contracts, fair pay, and stronger labor protections (Bloomberg)

Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules...

Bloomberg: Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms,...

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Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB raw material supplies; Goldman Sachs says PCB prices surged as much as 40% MoM in April (Reuters)

Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted...

Reuters: Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB...

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AI is already getting boring

AI is already getting boring

It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From...

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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique...

Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail...

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ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard...

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its...

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Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics,...

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics,...

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A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)

A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages...

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages...

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33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from $690K in 2023 to $3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)

33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs...

Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks...

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Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)

Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained...

Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained...

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Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns...

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Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix (Bloomberg)

Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the...

Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T,...

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How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more (Russell Contreras/Axios)

How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions...

Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions...

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A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit against OpenAI at his request, and plans to proceed to trial on other claims (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his...

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Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete (The Economist)

Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance...

The Economist: Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no...

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Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance,...

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance,...

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Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (Bloomberg)

Sources: China recently told tech companies, including...

Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and...

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Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~$2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 (Daniel Ren/South China Morning Post)

Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five years to boost...

Daniel Ren / South China Morning Post: Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five...

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Meta announces a deal to use "tens of millions" of Amazon's Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid a shortage of Nvidia chips (Ina Fried/Axios)

Meta announces a deal to use "tens of millions" of Amazon's...

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta announces a deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon's Graviton...

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With travel chaos looming, Brittany Ferries vows no price hikes

With travel chaos looming, Brittany Ferries vows no price...

With a summer of travel chaos looming for many European holidaymakers, one ferry...

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Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (The Robot Report)

Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service...

The Robot Report: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots,...

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Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day...

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Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office (ABC News)

Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the...

ABC News: Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás...

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Warner Bros. shareholders set to vote on Paramount takeover bid

Warner Bros. shareholders set to vote on Paramount takeover...

Shareholders in Warner Brothers Discovery are voting this Thursday to approve or...

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AI robot beats elite table tennis players in 'pivotal breakthrough'

AI robot beats elite table tennis players in 'pivotal breakthrough'

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, April 23: Le Parisien reports on an "unprecedented" criminal...

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Is China's economy insulated from Iran war shock?

Is China's economy insulated from Iran war shock?

The US and Israel’s war with Iran has sent shockwaves across the global economy,...

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Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers,...

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers,...

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Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a...

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a...

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S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as $28.5T, with $26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses (Reuters)

S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market...

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much...

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EU unveils plan to tackle energy crisis

EU unveils plan to tackle energy crisis

The European Union has unveiled plans to shield households and businesses from the...

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ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to $3.67B, vs. $3.65B est., says conflict in the Middle East weighed on growth; NOW drops 12%+ after hours (Lola Murti/CNBC)

ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to...

Lola Murti / CNBC: ServiceNow reports Q1 subscription revenue up 22% YoY to $3.67B,...

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IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops ~6% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $15.92B, vs. $15.62B est.,...

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Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran of Virginia, Matt Klein of Minnesota, and Ezekiel Enriquez of Texas for political insider trading (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark...

Dan Mangan / CNBC: Kalshi suspends and fines congressional candidates Mark Moran...

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Iran's workers face waves of layoffs as war batters domestic economy

Iran's workers face waves of layoffs as war batters domestic...

Iranians are confronting mass layoffs and soaring inflation amid destroyed infrastructure...

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TikTok's plan to build a ~$38B data center campus in Brazil, its first in Latin America, is facing local pushback over sustainability in a semi-arid area (Financial Times)

TikTok's plan to build a ~$38B data center campus in Brazil,...

Financial Times: TikTok's plan to build a ~$38B data center campus in Brazil, its...

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Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based AI agent, and says the Chinese version, launched in March, reached over 1M users in 10 days (T. K. Lin/KrASIA)

Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based...

T. K. Lin / KrASIA: Tencent launches an international beta for QClaw, its OpenClaw-based...

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Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania have been left in limbo by President Trump's sudden upending of US semiconductor policy over the past year (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania have...

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Efforts to revive chip manufacturing in Pennsylvania...

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France freezes some spending to offset €6 billion fallout from Iran war

France freezes some spending to offset €6 billion fallout...

France says the economic fallout from the Iran war has cost France at least 6 billion...

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Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for...

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for...

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Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (Washington Post)

Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered...

Washington Post: Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at...

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Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale to finance its shift from crypto mining to building AI data centers and leasing them to CoreWeave (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale...

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk...

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Mythos shock: Is AI taking cybersecurity risks to new levels?

Mythos shock: Is AI taking cybersecurity risks to new levels?

Governments and regulators are assessing potential implications and urging critical...

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Musk snubs Paris prosecutors' summons over X and Grok

Musk snubs Paris prosecutors' summons over X and Grok

Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors,...

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Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO after 15 years in the job

Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO after 15 years in the...

Apple has named John Ternus as its new CEO to replace Tim Cook, who is stepping...

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A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class (Wall Street Journal)

A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running...

Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running...

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Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO...

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits...

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A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend (Politico)

A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study:...

Politico: A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft,...

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Mythos shock - is AI taking cybersecurity risks to new levels?

Mythos shock - is AI taking cybersecurity risks to new...

Governments and regulators are assessing potential implications and urging critical...

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Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (Kimi AI)

Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that...

Kimi AI: Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows...

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WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp...

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A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)

A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring...

a16z: A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across...

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Billion-dollar tariff refund process kicks off in US

Billion-dollar tariff refund process kicks off in US

US businesses can finally start applying for tariff refunds following the US Supreme...

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Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU$1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU$300M to AU$2.7B-AU$3B (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)

Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU$1.5B...

Sneha Kumar / Reuters: Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU$1.5B...

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Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026 (The Information)

Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B...

The Information: Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's "regulatory burden" on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity (Andreas Rinke/Reuters)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease...

Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease...

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Should kids be banned from social media? The world is deciding

Should kids be banned from social media? The world is deciding

From the announcement of a new European age-verification app to a video summit of...

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A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued...

Amanda Mull / Bloomberg: A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued...

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Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to...

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology...

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Sources: the glowing "26" in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: the glowing "26" in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: the glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing...

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An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts (Zack Abrams/The Block)

An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain...

Zack Abrams / The Block: An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain...

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A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned...

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the...

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Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans...

Iain Martin / Forbes: Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on...

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Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection (Reuters)

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's...

Reuters: Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces...

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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across...

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record...

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Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (Nikkei Asia)

Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand...

Nikkei Asia: Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027;...

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White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been "productive and constructive"; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting (Axios)

White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie...

Axios: White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei...

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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (Financial Times)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old...

Financial Times: Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up...

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What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way", OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate...

Siladitya Ray / Forbes: What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate...

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What Magyar's election win means for Hungary's economy and Europe

What Magyar's election win means for Hungary's economy...

Hungary is preparing for a new era, after the centre-right Tisza party of Peter...

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Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first...

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round...

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Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% (Financial Times)

Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake...

Financial Times: Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German...

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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios)

Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff...

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on...

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European airlines could run out of jet fuel 'in six weeks'

European airlines could run out of jet fuel 'in six weeks'

European airlines could run out of jet fuel in six weeks' time. That's the warning...

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Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B...

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Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links...

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Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach $3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY (Bill Bradley/Adweek)

Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach...

Bill Bradley / Adweek: Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach...

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US jury rules Live Nation is illegal monopoly

US jury rules Live Nation is illegal monopoly

A federal jury in New York finds for the plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit against...

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X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time...

Timmy Shen / The Block: X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time...

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A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and...

Bloomberg: A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores...

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Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require...

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may...

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'War is development in reverse,' UNDP chief tells FRANCE 24

'War is development in reverse,' UNDP chief tells FRANCE...

Amid uncertainty over the war in Iran, the International Monetary Fund has downgraded...

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US urges IMF, World Bank to abandon climate finance goals

US urges IMF, World Bank to abandon climate finance goals

The climate-denialist Trump administration is pushing the World Bank and International...

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How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (Konstantin Kakaes/Quanta Magazine)

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate...

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways...

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Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico)

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional...

Politico: Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees...

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A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations (Byard Duncan/Bloomberg)

A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+...

Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+...

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China's exports slow amid surging costs brought on by Iran war

China's exports slow amid surging costs brought on by Iran...

China's exports grew only 2.5% in March from a year earlier, a significantly slowdown...

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Why Anthropic's new AI model is too powerful to release

Why Anthropic's new AI model is too powerful to release

One of the world's leading AI companies has built a model so powerful that it refuses...

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Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop...

Politico: Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited...

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OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for...

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A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus)

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a...

Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B...

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War in Iran could accelerate global energy transition

War in Iran could accelerate global energy transition

The Iran war has exposed vulnerabilities of countries reliant on Middle Eastern...

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Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic...

Hayden Field / The Verge: Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic...

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Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can...

Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver...

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Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says...

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Oil prices surge as Trump vows to block the Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices surge as Trump vows to block the Strait of Hormuz

US crude oil prices surged nearly 8%, reaching US$104 per barrel, as concerns grow...

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Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies...

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks...

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Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg)

Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an...

Bloomberg: Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong...

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Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal)

Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent...

Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent...

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Iran war: Catalyst for a renewable energy push?

Iran war: Catalyst for a renewable energy push?

The US and Israel’s war with Iran has triggered one of the biggest global energy...

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Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release

Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release

One of the world's leading AI companies has built a model so powerful that it refuses...

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High fuel prices spur interest in electric vehicles

High fuel prices spur interest in electric vehicles

The war in Iran has sent fuel costs soaring, leaving consumers scrambling for savings....

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Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI...

Axios: Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska...

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Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations; users must select the Pro model in the prompt bar (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D...

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OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription,...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which...

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Rising oil prices: Are we heading for a recession?

Rising oil prices: Are we heading for a recession?

Crude oil prices rose again on Thursday as the ceasefire announced by US President...

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UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg)

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus...

Bloomberg: UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas...

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Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times)

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional...

Financial Times: Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at...

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TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS,...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is...

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Energy crisis not over despite relief rally

Energy crisis not over despite relief rally

Oil prices have plunged and stock markets soared after the announcement of a two-week...

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Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature...

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature...

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Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to...

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OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled...

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling...

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Oil prices fall after ceasefire deal as questions over Hormuz Strait linger

Oil prices fall after ceasefire deal as questions over...

A two-week ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran on Wednesday led...

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Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data (Janko Roettgers/Fast Company)

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets...

Janko Roettgers / Fast Company: Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform...

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Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's "looking forward" to answering the questions (Ana Faguy/BBC)

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight...

Ana Faguy / BBC: Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee...

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Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed,...

Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed,...

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Qatar warns Iran war can now 'spiral out of control'

Qatar warns Iran war can now 'spiral out of control'

As Donald Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation in Iran ahead of his...

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Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first...

Juby Babu / Reuters: Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first...

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Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex...

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex...

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The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget...

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Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with...

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Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares...

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares...

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An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)

An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted...

Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News: An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted...

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Could China's adoption of electric vehicles shield it from the energy crisis?

Could China's adoption of electric vehicles shield it from...

As crude prices hover around the $110 per barrel mark on Monday morning, consumers...

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Israel attacks Iran's South Pars gas field again

Israel attacks Iran's South Pars gas field again

Israeli airstrikes hit two petrochemical plants in Iran's South Pars gas field complex. ...

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Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging...

Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P...

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Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (New Yorker)

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can...

New Yorker: Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid...

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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa,...

Financial Times: Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as...

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Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole...

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole...

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Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with...

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup...

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A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk)

A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12...

Lily Ottinger / ChinaTalk: A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into...

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Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in...

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According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in...

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated...

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How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows,...

Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter: How Hollywood support staff are integrating...

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VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts...

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: VCs are covering expenses like rent for young...

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Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details...

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details...

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Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp,...

AppleInsider: Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD...

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Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in...

Anna Tong / Forbes: Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025,...

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Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (Bloomberg)

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief...

Bloomberg: Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with...

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The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that...

Politico: The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt...

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Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record...

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Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's...

Maureen Farrell / New York Times: Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in...

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Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment...

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mercor asked professionals in...

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Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter...

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Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in...

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese companies move to cement...

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Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed...

Matt Mullenweg: Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell...

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One year on, what remains of Trump's tariffs?

One year on, what remains of Trump's tariffs?

It's been a year since US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs,...

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IVF and the workplace: How fertility struggles affect women’s careers

IVF and the workplace: How fertility struggles affect women’s...

Fertility treatments such as IVF are becoming increasingly common. But a study by...

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Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)

Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model...

The Keyword: Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family,...

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Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids,...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids,...

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Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds...

David Pierce / The Verge: Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds...

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Iran sets up 'tollbooth' in Strait of Hormuz for ships seeking safe passage

Iran sets up 'tollbooth' in Strait of Hormuz for ships...

Oil prices rose and stocks fell on Wednesday following US President Donald Trump’s...

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Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy,...

Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire: Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy,...

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Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative...

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first...

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Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq...

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the...

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Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a "dream mode" to consolidate its memories (The Information)

Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updates,...

The Information: Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its “Kairos” updates, including...

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Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)

Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen...

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen...

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SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take "several weeks" before the incident is resolved, after detecting an intrusion on March 28 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says...

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US fuel prices surge past $4 a gallon for first time since 2022

US fuel prices surge past $4 a gallon for first time since...

The average price of regular gasoline in the United States has topped $4 a gallon...

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok,...

Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use...

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Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band...

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit...

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Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence" for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence"...

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence”...

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Crude prices whipsaw on mixed signals from Iran war

Crude prices whipsaw on mixed signals from Iran war

Oil prices searched for direction on Tuesday amid conflicting events related to...

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Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two...

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two...

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Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from HSBC just months ago in its push to build "the best trading floor for gold in the world" (Bloomberg)

Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders...

Bloomberg: Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from...

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TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business for ~$472M, as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas; Sony retains a 49% stake (Bloomberg)

TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment...

Bloomberg: TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business...

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Oil rises, stocks fall as Iran war enters fifth week and further escalation looms

Oil rises, stocks fall as Iran war enters fifth week and...

Oil surged over $115 a barrel this Monday as the war in Iran entered its fifth week....

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Houthi attacks stoke fears of more shipping disruption

Houthi attacks stoke fears of more shipping disruption

Global oil prices continued to surge after Yemen's Houthi rebels entered the war,...

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Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere (Derek Thompson)

Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames...

Derek Thompson: Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones...

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After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub,...

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request...

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Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath...

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to...

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The law is coming for social media, with the science still uncertain

The law is coming for social media, with the science still...

The law is finally catching up with social media. This week, a California jury found...

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An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island,...

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality...

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Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine...

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Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, which uses Claude and enables users to build custom feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic...

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Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing;...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing;...

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ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack...

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data...

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Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude...

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Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to develop orbital data centers, aims to raise $250M to $300M in a Series B at a $2B valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju...

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Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure...

Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's...

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Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and publishes some documents online (Reuters)

Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach...

Reuters: Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director...

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France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf...

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and...

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SpaceX reportedly set to launch IPO valuing firm at $1.75 trillion

SpaceX reportedly set to launch IPO valuing firm at $1.75...

Elon Musk's profitable rocket and satellite internet company SpaceX is reportedly...

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Meta and YouTube verdict: Social media shakedown or bellwether?

Meta and YouTube verdict: Social media shakedown or bellwether?

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, March 26: We look at reactions after Meta and YouTube were...

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Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz: Fertiliser supply chains under strain

Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz: Fertiliser supply...

As tensions between the US, Israel and Iran choke the Strait of Hormuz, cutting...

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Iran war is starting to disrupt global value chains

Iran war is starting to disrupt global value chains

Concern that the Iran war could plunge the world into stagflation is rising as hostilities...

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As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA...

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws,...

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The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of...

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos...

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The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into Snapchat for failing to protect children, including assessing its age verification measures (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into...

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into...

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France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40% Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40% Gulf energy infrastructure...

A daily update on the latest business and economic news.

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Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees...

Eli Tan / New York Times: Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees...

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Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain...

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium...

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Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases...

Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back...

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Iran war pushes plastic packaging costs higher

Iran war pushes plastic packaging costs higher

Oil prices rose again on Tuesday, a day after a sharp decline, amid confusion over...

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Oil supply shock hardens energy transition resolve – for some

Oil supply shock hardens energy transition resolve – for...

The energy crisis over the Iran war has left some countries glad they've added more...

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How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes...

Chris Baraniuk / BBC: How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes...

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Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining,...

Alex Heath / Sources: Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining,...

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EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers (Bloomberg)

EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European...

Bloomberg: EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies...

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Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws by marketing Grok as generally safe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accusing...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accusing...

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Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is...

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Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs,...

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing...

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EU, Australia seal free trade deal eight years in the making

EU, Australia seal free trade deal eight years in the making

The EU and Australia have signed a sweeping free trade agreement that will eliminate...

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Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this quarter to 4M units, down ~33% from 6M, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this...

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production...

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US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI...

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending...

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Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots...

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots...

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Oil plunges, stocks surge on Trump's Iran reprieve

Oil plunges, stocks surge on Trump's Iran reprieve

Global crude oil prices fell about 10% and Wall Street stocks rallied after Donald...

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Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be...

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Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on...

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Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)

Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on...

Lex Fridman: Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia,...

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Is this the beginning of the end for the Metaverse?

Is this the beginning of the end for the Metaverse?

Five years and more than $80 billion later, Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality dream...

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Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's...

Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Reality Labs lost $80B+, but it still makes all...

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Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar...

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar...

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Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)

Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share,...

Mike Sorrentino / CNET: Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share,...

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Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (Bloomberg)

Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run...

Bloomberg: Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and...

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An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)

An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential...

Not Boring by Packy McCormick: An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential...

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A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now...

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now...

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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump...

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Social media accounts showing AI-generated women...

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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees...

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees...

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How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel...

Shubham Agarwal / The Guardian: How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile,...

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A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which...

Chang Che / The Guardian: A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which...

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Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)

Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it...

Steven Levy / Wired: Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled...

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Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by...

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end...

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Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven...

David Jeans / Reuters: Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI...

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Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once...

Paresh Dave / Wired: Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the...

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Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal (Wall Street Journal)

Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist...

Wall Street Journal: Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist...

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Gas prices soar as energy infrastructure is attacked in the Gulf

Gas prices soar as energy infrastructure is attacked in...

Natural gas prices soared as attacks intensified on energy infrastructure in the...

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Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy...

Bloomberg: Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned...

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Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost $500M+ in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30%...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30%...

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Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs up with Alexa; it would be Amazon's first smartphone since its 2014 Fire Phone (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing "Transformer",...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne team is developing “Transformer”,...

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Gas prices soar as energy infrastructure is attacked in Gulf

Gas prices soar as energy infrastructure is attacked in...

Natural gas prices soared, as attacks intensified on energy infrastracture in the...

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Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other chips, including new Groq chips, to AWS by the end of 2027; financial terms were not disclosed (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Nvidia says it will sell 1M GPUs and a broad mix of other...

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Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland...

Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland...

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OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its...

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Central banks confront spectre of inflation as Iran war escalates

Central banks confront spectre of inflation as Iran war...

Strikes on the natural gas production facilities of Iran and Qatar have sent energy...

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Iran war exposes Gulf economies' food, water vulnerability

Iran war exposes Gulf economies' food, water vulnerability

The spiralling conflict in Iran has highlighted the potential vulnerability of Gulf...

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Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate "one-person companies", startups run by a single founder with AI's help (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office...

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office...

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Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows...

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Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for...

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US seeks to curb soaring petrol prices

US seeks to curb soaring petrol prices

The Trump administration is taking steps to curb rising energy costs, as it continues...

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Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer following a CFTC demand; the company has expanded its legal team in recent months (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)

Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk officer...

Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket is looking to hire a chief risk...

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During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI does purchase "commercially available information" that can be used to track people's location history (Alfred Ng/Politico)

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI...

Alfred Ng / Politico: During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI...

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Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (Upstarts Media)

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm...

Upstarts Media: Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a...

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BTS fever grips Seoul as boy band return after four-year hiatus

BTS fever grips Seoul as boy band return after four-year...

The long-awaited return to the stage of K-pop sensation BTS is set to boost South...

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Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year...

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The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from...

Simon Sharwood / The Register: The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants...

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Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (Financial Times)

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and...

Financial Times: Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI...

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Indian tankers carrying LPG arrive at port after safe passage through Strait of Hormuz

Indian tankers carrying LPG arrive at port after safe passage...

Two Indian-flagged tankers together carrying over 92,000 metric tonnes of liquefied...

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Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies monitor security across cloud providers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed and a $31M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Tel Aviv- and Seattle-based Native, which helps companies...

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Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, offering an Intel Binary Optimization Tool to improve native performance in some games (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs for high-end...

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Intel unveils the Core Ultra 200HX Plus CPUs...

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Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini...

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Oil eases amid signs Iran is allowing some tankers to pass through Strait of Hormuz

Oil eases amid signs Iran is allowing some tankers to pass...

Global oil prices fell sharply on Monday after a Pakistan-bound oil tanker passed...

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Gulf states seek to bypass Strait of Hormuz for oil exports via pipelines

Gulf states seek to bypass Strait of Hormuz for oil exports...

Iran sends drones to attack the UAE port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman, raising...

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Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software...

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A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers...

Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel: A reporter details harassment and death threats...

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Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning,...

Mistral AI: Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal,...

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India faces dilemma as energy crisis bites amid US trade deal negotiations

India faces dilemma as energy crisis bites amid US trade...

New Delhi walks a policy tightrope, with public anger mounting over shortages of...

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Trump announces AI chatbot ban while Pentagon uses it to prepare Iran attacks

Trump announces AI chatbot ban while Pentagon uses it to...

In the hours leading up to the US attack on Iran, Donald Trump announced that technology...

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#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?

#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?

It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining...

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Oil eases amid signs Iran is allowing some tankers pass through Strait of Hormuz

Oil eases amid signs Iran is allowing some tankers pass...

Global oil prices fell sharply on Monday after a Pakistan-bound oil tanker passed...

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Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee...

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Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including...

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent...

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Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting "AI face models" to facilitate crypto and romance scams; some demand 100+ video calls per day (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting...

Matt Burgess / Wired: Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting...

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Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month (Eliza Triantafillou/OCCRP)

Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech...

Eliza Triantafillou / OCCRP: Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance...

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Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment...

Zack Abrams / The Block: Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment...

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Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)

Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization...

Clinton Nwachukwu / Ventureburn: Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU...

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Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered...

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The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's...

Helen Vogelsong-Donahue / Wired: The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of...

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Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the...

New York Times: Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in...

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Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's...

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto...

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Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter;...

Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance: Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to...

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A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16,...

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Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens...

Anastasia Stognei / Financial Times: Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the...

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An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now playing out in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details...

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details...

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An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic,...

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel...

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Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers...

The Information: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop...

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Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be "original content" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and...

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Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations...

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operations...

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Oil prices top $100 as markets brace for prolonged Iran conflict

Oil prices top $100 as markets brace for prolonged Iran...

Brent crude has once again topped $100 a barrel as energy markets brace for the...

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Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker appear...

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker...

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Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese traders and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those...

Fortune: Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese...

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Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained,...

Kelby Vera / HuffPost: Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained,...

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Oil prices top $100 as market braces for long conflict

Oil prices top $100 as market braces for long conflict

Brent crude oil prices have once again topped $100 per barrel, as energy markets...

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Ireland’s deputy PM warns of ‘near-existential moment’ for EU amid global turmoil

Ireland’s deputy PM warns of ‘near-existential moment’...

The European Union is facing an “almost existential moment” as it seeks to weather...

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A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation...

Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw...

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IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US...

Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in...

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Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with...

Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that...

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Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four-year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers (Financial Times)

Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from...

Financial Times: Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators...

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Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a flat...

Jesus Diaz / Fast Company: Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that turns a...

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Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Musk says they are a joint xAI-Tesla project (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled...

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EU chief says turning away from nuclear energy was a 'strategic mistake'

EU chief says turning away from nuclear energy was a 'strategic...

As the Iran war continues to disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East, Paris has...

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Oil markets swing on stockpile release and Hormuz Strait mine reports

Oil markets swing on stockpile release and Hormuz Strait...

Oil markets fell and picked up again on Wednesday, as the International Energy Agency...

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A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI...

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens...

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Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help...

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Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand, and Canada, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New Zealand,...

Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, New...

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EU chief says turning away from nuclear energy was 'a strategic mistake'

EU chief says turning away from nuclear energy was 'a strategic...

As the Iran war continues to disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East, Paris hosted...

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After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI-powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos...

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In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)

In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to...

Bloomberg: In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet...

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Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing...

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing...

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Oil and stocks whipsaw on hopes of an end to Middle East war

Oil and stocks whipsaw on hopes of an end to Middle East...

Crude oil prices pulled back sharply after brushing $120 a barrel earlier on Monday....

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Oil prices fall, stocks rise as Trump says military goals ‘pretty well complete’

Oil prices fall, stocks rise as Trump says military goals...

Global benchmark prices for oil fell, and stocks rose, on the back of US President’s...

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Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools (Maria Curi/Axios)

Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order...

Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally...

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xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven,...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS,...

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Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)

Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and...

FinSMEs: Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications...

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Trump's Claude ban: The first salvo in a long battle over who controls AI

Trump's Claude ban: The first salvo in a long battle over...

A struggle to control artificial intelligence is playing out just as the United...

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Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion (Bloomberg)

Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm...

Bloomberg: Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active...

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Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for...

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework...

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London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build "AI-powered factories" (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence,...

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers...

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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based...

Emily Mason / Bloomberg: How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based...

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Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines...

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A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout...

Harvard Business Review: A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout...

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Trump's Claude ban: the first salvo in a long battle over who controls AI

Trump's Claude ban: the first salvo in a long battle over...

A struggle to control artificial intelligence is playing out, just as United States...

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Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open to strategic co-operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is "open...

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it...

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German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised...

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A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive...

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an...

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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics,...

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics,...

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Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder...

Nancy Scola / Politico: Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder...

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Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain...

Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and...

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China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price...

Nikkei Asia: China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as...

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Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to...

The Information: Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding...

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A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour...

Bobby Allyn / NPR: A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket...

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Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported...

Lola Murti / CNBC: Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue...

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Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with...

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OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved...

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from...

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Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets...

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An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement,...

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement,...

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Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders (Financial Times)

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for...

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training...

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Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying “government...

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Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers...

Reuters: Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing...

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded...

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded...

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China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991

China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991

China's annual parliamentary session kicks off with a growth downgrade as leaders...

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Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical...

Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical...

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A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving "substantive response, information, or advice" (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed...

Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating...

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Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre...

Lindsey Weedston / The Daily Dot: Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device,...

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Korean stocks suffer worst crash ever as Iran war hits chipmakers

Korean stocks suffer worst crash ever as Iran war hits...

South Korea's main stock index, the KOSPI, lost 12 percent on Wednesday, sending...

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Oil prices steady as Iran war continues

Oil prices steady as Iran war continues

Oil prices have steadied for the first time since the US and Israel launched strikes...

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Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, both available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage...

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Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched in the iPhone 16 lineup, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued the 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched in the...

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched...

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MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple, and it doesn't look budget with a vibrant display and aluminum body, but the keyboard is a bit flimsy (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple,...

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple,...

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Can Iran's economy survive if the war drags on?

Can Iran's economy survive if the war drags on?

Iran has taken the risky gambit of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which could backfire...

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Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D, with $50M coming from the UK government's National Wealth Fund; Nvidia's NVentures also invested (Tom Nugent/Sifted)

Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series...

Tom Nugent / Sifted: Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D,...

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Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones...

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KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)

KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR,...

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic...

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Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. What more could it do?

Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. What more could it...

Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and threatened to fire at any ship...

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes (Lawfare)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions...

Lawfare: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic...

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Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks, buying convertible senior notes with an initial conversion price of $22.72 per share, a 30% premium (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks,...

Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to...

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A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, adjusting consumption when asked (Eamon Farhat/Bloomberg)

A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds...

Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds...