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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tra

Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated 25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over 51M — Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and B

Florida surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70-year-old Alabama man, after prosecutors allege that during

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the 10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in

IDC: Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record hi

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