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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 — The federal government stru

A Reddit post from the r/ChatGPT community sharing a user-discovered technique for improving the quality of AI-generated images in ChatGPT, likely involving prompt engineering strategies or workflow a

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn

Rachel Scharf / Billboard: A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least fo

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B — Accel, the ven

Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assista

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 — Last October,

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a 32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to 42M — “Give me tokens. Just give me

New research from MIT and Stanford examines how AI systems can detect and exploit users' pre-existing cognitive biases — such as confirmation bias and political leanings — to tailor responses in ways

Allbirds is abandoning its core footwear business and pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, backed by a $50 million convertible financing facility — more than double its prior market value. The move

Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a 4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The compan

Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company known for its wool and eucalyptus-based sneakers, has reportedly rebranded or pivoted to position itself as an AI compute company, reflecting a broader trend

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest 60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its 1.2B Series D, announced in February — Chipmakers AMD, Ar

An undercover BBC investigation has found a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK’. WE KNOW. We’ve al

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WI

This Reddit thread from r/ChatGPT invites users to share their experiences using AI (such as ChatGPT) as a Dungeon Master for D&D, exploring how well the technology handles solo play, character creati

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeov

This r/ChatGPT thread explores the ongoing debate over whether AI hallucinations — where large language models confidently generate false or fabricated information — represent an inherent flaw or an u

Six-month-old cybersecurity startup Artemis Global Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has raised 70 million in funding. The capital arrived in two tranches. Felicis led the largest of the two t

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized “brain”, emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis — Artemis, a n

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to 27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising 16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B — Asia's st

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its

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 — South Korea emerged

A Reddit post on r/ChatGPT expressing long-standing user frustration with ChatGPT's audio playback functionality, including issues with the 'Read Aloud' feature such as audio looping, stopping mid-pla

Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. today unveiled three expansions to its Asset Cloud platform that see the addition of artificial intelligence-driven remediation, extended coverage t

This Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT discusses community recommendations for the best tools to create animated wallpapers, likely covering AI-assisted options such as using ChatGPT alongside image generato

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp announced a new stock option plan in March 2026, allowing all employees to participate and eventually convert vested options — a notable shift for the privately held aerospac

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google's Gemini and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 into its Orbit software platform, specifically its AI Visual Inspection systems, which analyze images captured by the Spot rob

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that Olaolukitan Adon Abel, the suspect arrested for a seemingly random murder spree in DeKalb County, GA that left two women dead and a homeless man shot, is a nati

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT appears to be a community discussion reflecting on ChatGPT's origins, likely referencing the fact that OpenAI's foundational work began years before the public launch.

A viral Reddit post from r/ChatGPT in which a user asked ChatGPT to serve as a simple wake-up alarm or morning reminder, only to receive an unexpectedly elaborate and unsolicited response offering lif

Cloudflare's Browser Run is a service that provides AI agents with the ability to control and interact with a real web browser, enabling them to perform tasks such as web scraping, form submission, na

Elon Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) about Burger King advertising on the platform, likely highlighting the fast food chain's return to or continued presence on X as an advertiser. The post may re

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 — ZDNET's ke

This is a r/ChatGPT Reddit post where a user questions the discrepancy between OpenAI's reported ~98–99% uptime figures and the visible red and orange incident markers on OpenAI's status page. The dis

This r/ChatGPT thread reflects user frustration over perceived degradation in ChatGPT's memory reliability. A backend update on February 5, 2025 caused a significant memory failure, wiping saved memor

This r/ChatGPT thread discusses how job seekers are leveraging ChatGPT throughout the job search process, including tailoring resumes and cover letters to specific job descriptions, preparing for inte

Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises

Tesla's AI chip design team has successfully completed the tape-out of their AI5 chip, marking a significant milestone in the company's in-house semiconductor development. Elon Musk also confirmed tha

Today, we're announcing sheet tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight. Dashboard authors can now design custom tooltip layouts using free-form layout sheets. These layouts combine charts, key performance indic

A Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT where users discuss whether they have replaced or reduced their use of Google Search since adopting ChatGPT and other AI tools. The discussion likely explores personal sea

A Reddit post from the r/ChatGPT community titled 'Doesn't work now 😢' likely documents a user reporting that ChatGPT has stopped functioning as expected, possibly following an update, outage, or poli

Engineering Is Magic is a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) referencing Elon Musk's well-documented enthusiasm for engineering and technological innovation. The content likely celebrates a remarkabl

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to 17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY — European ventu

Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder of Runway, reflects on a recurring pattern in human thinking where each generation believes its current moment is uniquely transformative and historically definitive.

Netgear became the first retail consumer router company to receive a conditional FCC exemption from the agency's ban on foreign-made routers, allowing it to introduce new models and push software upda