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Apr 30

Major Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Google is rolling out Gemini to cars that have Google built in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US

Apr 30

Major Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg

The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification

Apr 30

Major Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg

The NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies

Apr 30

Major Tim Culpan / Culpium

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increased DRAM prices, not shipments, indicating a focus on revenue over helping clients get the products they need

Apr 30

Top Story Gabe Gurwin / GameSpot

Sony confirms some digital PS4 and PS5 games require owners to do a one-time online license check "to confirm the game's license", likely to combat refund scams

Apr 30

Major Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices

Apr 30

Major Financial Times

SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation

Apr 29

Major Jonathan Vanian / CNBC

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

Apr 29

Top Story Emma Roth / The Verge

Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY

Apr 29

Top Story Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google says the Gemini app can now generate files; supported formats include PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Docs and Sheets, plain text, and Markdown

Apr 29

Major Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Motorola unveils its 2026 foldables lineup, including its first book-style model, which costs $1,900; prices for clamshell models have gone up by up to $200

Apr 29

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit "and Other Stuff" and built by an early Twitter employee, debuts with ~500K restored Vine videos

Apr 29

Major Macy Meyer / CNET

Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month

Apr 29

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023

Apr 29

Major Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg

The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services

Apr 29

Major Alex Heath / Sources

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a "better" OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more

Apr 29

Major Axios

The White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos

Apr 28

Major Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model

Apr 28

Major Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year

Apr 28

Major Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg

NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, vs. $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours

Apr 28

Major Bloomberg

Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because "it is not okay to steal a charity" and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts

Apr 28

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos

Apr 28

Major Anthropic

Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows

Apr 28

Major Juro Osawa / The Information

Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance

Apr 28

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+

Apr 28

Major Wall Street Journal

Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years

Apr 27

Major Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines

Renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later this year, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Apr 27

Major Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg

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

Apr 27

Major Will Knight / Wired

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI "superlearners"

Apr 27

Major Ivan Levingston / Financial Times

Vilnius-based Vinted says it closed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, and Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024

Apr 27

Major Riley Griffin / Bloomberg

Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to collect sunlight in satellites and is planning a 2028 demo

Apr 27

Major Financial Times

Some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance; a source says the main issue is the UK adopting EU AI rules

Apr 27

Major Bloomberg

A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical

Apr 27

Major Neil Hacker / Works in Progress

A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, closely collaborating with TSMC and the US government, and more

Apr 27

Major @mingchikuo

Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028

Apr 27

Major Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai

OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments

Apr 27

Major Joseph Howlett / Scientific American

An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a "nice achievement" with unclear long-term significance

Apr 26

Major Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune

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

Apr 25

Major Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg

A look at Strider, an intelligence firm that claims to use agentic AI and public records to let the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors

Apr 25

Major Russell Contreras / Axios

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

Apr 25

Major Bloomberg

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

Apr 25

Major Ben Schoon / 9to5Google

Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages

Apr 25

Major Hema Parmar / Bloomberg

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

Apr 24

Major Raphael Satter / Reuters

Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to alleged distillation of US models by Chinese labs, including DeepSeek

Apr 24

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads

Apr 24

Major Joe Wertz / Bloomberg

France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting

Apr 24

Major Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg

The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas

Apr 24

Major Matt Day / Bloomberg

Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs

Apr 24

Major Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026

Apr 24

Top Story Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class

Apr 24

Major Ben Thompson / Stratechery

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more

Apr 23

Major Katie Tarasov / CNBC

Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours

Apr 23

Major Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg

Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency

Apr 23

Major Jordan Novet / CNBC

Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible

Apr 23

Major Financial Times

Memo: White House says it has info indicating "foreign entities, principally based in China" are engaged in "industrial scale distillation" of American AI tech

Apr 23

Major Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch

Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods

Apr 23

Major Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch

Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages

Apr 23

Major Reuters

TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun

Apr 23

Major Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals $27B or $400K+ per worker

Apr 23

Major Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register

GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default

Apr 23

Major CNBC

Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity

Apr 22

Major Bloomberg

Dune Analytics: Polymarket's global trading volumes have fallen behind Kalshi in recent months; sources: product delays are contributing to Polymarket's decline

Apr 22

Major Qwen

Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks

Apr 22

Major Jordan Novet / CNBC

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 7%+ after hours

Apr 22

Major OpenAI

OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters

Apr 22

Business Insider

Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build "the world's most automated AI lab" with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind

Apr 22

Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico

The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping

Apr 22

Major Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~$50M at a ~$335M valuation

Apr 22

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

Vast Data, which makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data with a focus on AI applications, raised a $1B Series F at a $30B valuation

Apr 22

Karen Freifeld / Reuters

Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the "MATCH Act", which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips

Apr 22

Molly Taft / Wired

Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries

Apr 22

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch

Mira Murati's TML signed a deal with Google Cloud, valued in single-digit billions, to access Google's latest AI systems built on Nvidia's GB300 chips

Apr 22

The Information

Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation

Apr 22

John Higgins / The Verge

Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds

Apr 22

Sam Sabin / Axios

OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week

Apr 22

Reuters

A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM

Apr 22

Michael Acton / Financial Times

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

Apr 21

Major Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

After users reported Claude Code appeared to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan, Anthropic says it's "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups"

Apr 21

Major Rachel Metz / Bloomberg

A handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it

Apr 21

Major Lily Hay Newman / Wired

Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview

Apr 21

Major Jonathan Stempel / Reuters

New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Coinbase and Gemini, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling

Apr 21

Major Reuters

Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training

Apr 21

Major Digiday

OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs

Apr 21

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from $29.99 to $22.99/month and PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games

Apr 21

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

Trump says his administration had "some very good talks" with Anthropic during a WH meeting last week and "it's possible" there will be a deal with DOD

Apr 21

Major Politico

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

Apr 20

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS

Apr 20

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years

Apr 20

Major a16z

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

Apr 20

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes

Apr 20

Major Kimi AI

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

Apr 20

Major Erin Woo / The Information

Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents

Apr 20

Major Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal

Adobe introduces CX Enterprise, an AI agent-based platform that aims to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and other functions

Apr 20

Major Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg

A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 7%+

Apr 20

Major Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Huawei launches the Pura X Max, a passport-style foldable with a 5.4-inch cover display and a 7.7-inch internal display, in China, starting at ~$1,613

Apr 20

Major Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable

Apr 20

Major The Information

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

Apr 19

Major Axios

The US NSA is using Mythos Preview; one source says Mythos is also being widely used within the DoD, despite Anthropic's supply chain risk designation

Apr 19

Major Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer

Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums

Apr 19

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

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

Apr 19

Major Qianer Liu / The Information

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

Apr 19

Major Amanda Mull / Bloomberg

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

Apr 18

Major Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times

Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth

Apr 17

Major Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch

Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications

Apr 17

Major Reuters

Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees

Apr 17

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations

Apr 17

Major Will Canny / CoinDesk

Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B

Apr 17

Major Tanaya Macheel / CNBC

Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks

Apr 17

Financial Times

Uber agrees to buy an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus for ~€270M, which would bring Uber's total stake to ~7%

Apr 17

Top Story Axios

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

Apr 17

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers

Apr 16

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

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

Apr 16

Major Bloomberg

Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model

Apr 16

Major Matt Kapko / CyberScoop

The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse

Apr 16

Major Wall Street Journal

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts

Apr 16

Major Stevie Bonifield / The Verge

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes

Apr 16

Major Timmy Shen / The Block

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

Apr 16

Major Bloomberg

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

Apr 15

Major The Information

Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp

Apr 15

Major NBC News

A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled

Apr 15

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks

Apr 15

Major Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more

Apr 15

Major Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code

Apr 15

Major Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg

ASML says South Korea surpassed China as its largest market in Q1 2026, with shipments hitting 45% of net system sales, or €2.84B, up from 22% in Q4 2025

Apr 15

Major Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability

Apr 15

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, noting that it has a "proven track record" with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar

Apr 14

Major CNBC

Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board

Apr 14

Major Andrew Romero / 9to5Google

YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement

Apr 14

Major New York Times

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and included other AI executives' addresses

Apr 14

Major Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google designates "back button hijacking" as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15

Apr 14

Major Julie Bort / TechCrunch

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

Apr 14

Major Jeff Tomich / Politico

Voters in Festus, Missouri, last week ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection, just days after the council approved a $6B data center

Apr 13

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts

Apr 13

Major Zac Bowden / Windows Central

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs

Apr 13

Major Hayden Field / The Verge

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google", which overstates its "run rate by roughly $8B"

Apr 13

Major Bloomberg

Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia "has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape"

Apr 13

Major Stanford HAI

2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more

Apr 13

Top Story Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku

Rockstar confirms "a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach"; ShinyHunters demand a ransom

Apr 13

Major Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia

SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for "physical AI" by 2030

Apr 13

Major Wall Street Journal

Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand

Apr 13

Major Tristan Anthony / Business Insider

Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users

Apr 12

Major Bloomberg

As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game

Apr 12

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses

Apr 12

Major Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg

A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times

Apr 12

Major Daniel Tudor / Financial Times

Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it

Apr 11

Major Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic

Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more

Apr 11

Major Washington Post

Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God"

Apr 11

Major Terrence O'Brien / The Verge

Google says Polymarket bets "briefly appeared in Google News in error", after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the "For You" section

Apr 10

Major Wall Street Journal

US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit

Apr 10

Major Sam Altman

Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry

Apr 10

Major Michael Kan / PCMag

Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10

Apr 10

Major Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch

France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline

Apr 10

Major Dominic Preston / The Verge

YouTube raises YouTube Premium's prices in the US: Lite is $1 more at $8.99/month, Individual is $2 more at $15.99/month, and Family is $4 more at $26.99/month

Apr 10

Major Frank Landymore / Futurism

Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage

Apr 10

Major Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer

Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools

Apr 10

Major Maxwell Zeff / Wired

OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports

Apr 10

Major Cory Weinberg / The Information

SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI

Apr 9

Major Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier ...

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago

Apr 9

Major Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year

Apr 9

Major Dan Primack / Axios

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18

Apr 9

Major Juro Osawa / The Information

Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0

Apr 8

Major Jack Queen / Reuters

A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March

Apr 8

Major Antonis Pothitos / Reuters

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action

Apr 8

Major Andrew Liszewski / The Verge

Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read

Apr 8

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring

Apr 8

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware

Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up

Apr 8

Major Luz Ding / Bloomberg

Z.ai raises the prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by 8% to 17% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as agentic AI demand surges

Apr 7

Major Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider

Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted

Apr 7

Major Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board

Apr 7

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays

Apr 7

Major Jyoti Mann / The Information

Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed "Claudeonomics" where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like "Token Legend" status

Apr 7

Major Mia Sato / The Verge

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons

Apr 7

Major OpenAI

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems

Apr 7

Major Financial Times

Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its San Francisco HQ, London, and Zurich

Apr 7

Major Nikkei Asia

Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production

Apr 6

Major Ina Fried / Axios

Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license

Apr 6

Major Nate Raymond / Reuters

A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction

Apr 6

Major Andrew Webster / The Verge

Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand

Apr 6

Major Lauren Goode / Wired

How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services

Apr 6

Major Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request

Apr 6

Major Thomas Claburn / The Register

Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them

Apr 6

Top Story Kunal Khullar / Tom's Hardware

Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout

Apr 5

Major Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI

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

Apr 5

Major Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands

Apr 5

Major Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware

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"

Apr 5

Top Story Abner Li / 9to5Google

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

Apr 4

Major AppleInsider

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

Apr 4

Major Kyle Orland / Ars Technica

Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning

Apr 4

Major Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims

Apr 4

Major Kalley Huang / New York Times

The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos

Apr 3

Top Story Boris Cherny / @bcherny

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

Apr 3

Major Wired

Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident

Apr 3

Major Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period"

Apr 3

Major Alex Heath / Sources

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex

Apr 3

Major Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks

Apr 3

Major Jared Perlo / NBC News

A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025

Apr 3

Major Rina Chandran / Rest of World

Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems

Apr 3

Major Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View

Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically

Apr 2

Major Casey Newton / Platformer

Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option

Apr 2

Major Financial Times

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026

Apr 2

Major Luz Ding / Bloomberg

Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has "drastically enhanced" agentic coding

Apr 2

Bloomberg

A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansions in 2025, a decision some say led to its current supply crunch and growth bottleneck

Apr 2

Stephen Morris / Financial Times

AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed

Apr 2

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block

Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq on April 1, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill

Apr 2

Ryan Lawler / Axios

Variance, which develops AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by YC and others

Apr 2

Major Julie Bort / TechCrunch

A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license

Apr 1

Financial Times

Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor

Apr 2

Reuters

Documents: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, following a $35M investment in February

Apr 1

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan

Apr 1

Major Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal

Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors

Apr 1

John Sakellariadis / Politico

The FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a "major incident"

Apr 1

Major Stevie Bonifield / The Verge

Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December and February hikes, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75

Apr 1

Major The Information

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

Apr 1

Major Ian King / Bloomberg

Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10%

Apr 1

Major Patrick McGee / Financial Times

As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era