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Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock — Oracle is poised to mak

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive — As major news outlet

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 — AI companies are rationing of

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone's) future time, and will happily dump more a

The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power use

OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday about the company's strategic direction, emphasizing the need to lock in users and grow its enterprise busi

*Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator* is a PC simulation game developed by Blood Pact Studios (released March 17, 2026) that lets players manage their own early-'90s video rental store, handling task

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 — Roblox is i

Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review — People who do

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 — Well known hac

Sam Altman was seemingly targeted by a second attack on Sunday morning, with two suspects arrested following a shooting at his Russian Hill residence, The San Francisco Standard reports. The suspects

Dina Bass / 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” — Shares of Dell Tec

Bloomberg: 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 — Victory Giant Technology Hui

Electric pickup startup Slate Auto recently announced it raised $650 million in a funding round as it nears production of its Slate Truck. The vehicle, scheduled for late 2

Politico: Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK AISI tested it — BRUSSELS — Regulators in Euro

The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~1B, vs. 550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year — AI firms' voracious appet

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to staff — Meta is building an

Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: 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 — TOKYO —

With AI capabilities rapidly increasing, humans appear close to developing AI systems that are better than human experts across all domains. This raises a series of questions about how the world will—

Ars Technica's article covers the newly released teaser trailer for *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*, the second Hunger Games prequel film adapted from Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel, which is

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure — Antho

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors — World Liberty

Google Research introduces **Vantage**, a research experiment that uses generative AI to assess students' future-ready skills through simulated conversational environments, aiming to provide educators

Jeff Tomich / Politico: Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center — The rout of hal

Vultr participated in the HumanX 2026 conference in San Francisco, an event focused on enterprise AI adoption and strategy. The blog post likely highlights Vultr's presence at the conference, showcasi

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Instit

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Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neuroscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gra

I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor i

New York Times: A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems — China, the U.S., Russia and others h

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 — - Ant

Thanks to a tip from Rahim Nathwani, here's a uv run recipe for transcribing an audio file on macOS using the 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model with MLX and mlx-vlm: uv run --python 3.13 --with mlx_vlm --wit

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MiniMax M2.7 is an enhancement of the MiniMax M2.5 model, built as a 230B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 10B active parameters per token and a 200K context length, designed for agentic

Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sun

Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the U.S.-Israel war on Iran that began in late February 2026, has triggered a historic oil supply shock and sent global energy prices soaring. Despit

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security — Presiden

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: 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 —

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A report called 'KellyBench,' released by AI start-up General Reasoning, tested eight leading AI models in a virtual re-creation of the 2023–24 Premier League season, providing them with detailed hist

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