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Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk — Anthropic PBC hired the lobb

Andy Kemp / Gallup: For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive — Employees report produc

The Pixel 10 marks the first Pixel device to integrate a memory-safe language into its modem, with Google embedding a DNS parser written in Rust into the modem firmware. DNS requires parsing of untrus

IBM agreed to pay $17,077,043 to the U.S. government on April 10, 2026, to resolve DOJ allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying compliance with federal anti-discriminati

Bloomberg: Intel added 100B+ in value and now has a 300B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy an Ireland fab and join Terafab — Intel Corp. has quickly become one of

Tom Warren / The Verge: 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” — Microsoft is gett

Hayden Field / The Verge: 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” — OpenAI's chief re

Elizabeth Bratton / Financial Times: Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices —

Databricks has partnered with Lovable, an AI-powered app development platform, to enable users to build data-driven applications quickly by combining Lovable's natural language interface with Databric

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times. Sources tell the outlet that Meta is

A person infected with measles traveled through Boise Airport between 1:30 a.m. and 7:40 a.m. on March 29, 2026 , prompting Idaho health officials to issue a public exposure warning. Idaho has the low

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal — OpenAI's newly app

Meta is developing an AI version of CEO Mark Zuckerberg designed to interact with employees.

Microsoft is looking into ways it can integrate OpenClaw-style features into 365 Copilot, according to a report from The Information. The test reportedly comes as part of efforts to make its 365 Copil

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 — Microsoft

NZXT and its billing partner Fragile Inc. have agreed to a 3.45 million preliminary settlement in a California District Court to resolve a class-action lawsuit over their controversial 'Flex' PC renta

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub — OpenAI has

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

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

*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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Digital workforces are everywhere you go. Before you’ve even entered your first meeting of the day, artificial intelligence can provide you with a summary of your inbox, check your calendar and even s

In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding the zone with video a

Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. 'Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?' Normally, that kind of ou

NASA's Artemis II mission successfully concluded on April 10, 2026, when its four-person crew — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut J

The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces -

San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San Francisco Standard reports. Th

Artificial intelligence data provider AfterQuery Inc. has raised 30 million in funding at a 300 million valuation. The startup disclosed in its Thursday announcement of the deal that Altos Ventures wa

Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organizat

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier announced today that his office will open a probe into OpenAI Group PBC over a number of concerns including alleged harm to children, threats to national secu