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Prime Video released the official trailer for *Good Omens* Season 3 — a 90-minute series finale special rather than a full season — in which Michael Sheen and David Tennant's angel-demon duo Aziraphal

Google launched its 'Google app for desktop' for Windows 10 and 11 users globally on April 14, 2026, bringing Google Search, Drive, files, and apps directly to the desktop via a keyboard shortcut (Alt

Apple quietly threatened to kick Elon Musk's AI app, Grok, from its App Store in January over its failure to curb the surge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding X, according to NBC News. It was

Madison Mills / Axios: Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a 28M Series A led by a16z — Hilbert, an AI startup rethinkin

Quantum computing is moving from theoretical promise to practical infrastructure, increasingly woven into high-performance computing environments through hybrid quantum-HPC computing approaches. For o

Databricks has released a connector that enables Google Sheets users to access real-time data directly from Databricks lakehouses with built-in governance controls. The connector allows seamless integ

ISSCC 2026 previews cutting-edge semiconductor research and industry presentations covering co-packaged optics (CPO) developments from NVIDIA and Broadcom, next-generation memory standards including H

A Manhattan federal jury found on April 15, 2026, that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market , following a lawsuit brought by over 30

Load balancing and scaling LLM serving involves distributing inference requests across multiple model instances or GPUs to prevent bottlenecks and ensure consistent response times under varying traffi

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a 22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an A

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 — Snap

Meta Platforms Inc. has announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artifici

Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that d

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year survey, producing the largest-ever 3D map of the universe using data from tens of millions of galaxies and quasars to study

The Ars Technica article covers the first teaser trailer for *Godzilla Minus Zero*, the sequel to the Oscar-winning *Godzilla Minus One*, which was debuted by writer/director Takashi Yamazaki at Cinem

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 — After he

Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Parasail Inc. today announced that it has raised 32 million in early-stage funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures jointly led the Series A round.

Sequoia Capital's 'Partnering with Auctor' article announces the firm's lead investment in Auctor, a New York-based AI-native startup that emerged from stealth on April 15, 2026. Auctor raised a total

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.

During the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026, Amazon Prime Video's stream of the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets game went offline for nearly two minutes in overtime, with the audio feed cutti

Project Think is Cloudflare's initiative to develop next-generation AI agents built on its global network infrastructure, leveraging tools like Workers AI, Durable Objects, and the Workers platform to

John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan

Quantum-HPC integration may still be in its earliest chapters, but the race to build the software infrastructure it will need is already underway. As the quantum technology market matures toward a pro

Salesforce Inc. wants to make conversation the interface for developers, bringing agents to the foreground with a “headless” version of its platform designed to let humans and artificial intelligence

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land

Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make

The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited

Norwegian defense technology startup Stendr said today it has closed on 5.4 million in pre-seed funding in order to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for modern weapons systems. Th

Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra

AI-driven decision-making has arrived, putting a focus on trusted data and strong governance so outputs stay reliable at scale. The shift is rewriting the relationship between people and data. Instead

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platform

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Googl

The AI bottleneck isn’t the model — it’s everything that has to happen to the data before the model can even touch it. Conversational analytics is now emerging as the bridge to turn already-curated da

Molly Taft / Wired: The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy In

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah released 'TotalRecall Reloaded,' a tool that exploits a weakness in Windows 11's Recall feature by injecting a DLL payload into `AIXHost.exe` — the unprotected pr

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for 39M after its valuation fell from 4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ — Ah, zeit

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Among the three companies that dominate the global cloud infrastructure market, Google Cloud remains in third place — behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — with 12% to 14% market share

This Ars Technica article examines the complex relationship between amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's disease, including the long-debated 'amyloid cascade hypothesis' and its role in driving disease res

David McCabe / New York Times: WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers — WPP, Dentsu and Pu

Jason Parham / Wired: X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn — The platform's large-scale crackdown o

Databricks outlines eight key AI and data trends expected to transform financial services in 2026, likely covering advancements in generative AI, real-time data processing, machine learning for risk m

Dom Cooke / Colossus: 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 — Jeffrey Yan turned

About Amazon: Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. a