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OpenAI hired Meta's top ad executive, revamped ChatGPT shopping, and petitioned the UK CMA to put ChatGPT on Google's mandated search choice screens — all on the same day. Fifteen months after its CFO first mentioned ads, OpenAI is no longer weighing the model. It's building it.
OpenAI plans to discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT
The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions
A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages
A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.
Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers
SoftBank-owned tech group secures Meta and OpenAI as first customers of its long-awaited new AI processor
Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code
Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index …
Sources: Apple's plans for a Siri reboot include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and Ask Siri and Write with Siri features
Apple Inc. is testing a standalone app for its Siri voice assistant alongside a new “Ask Siri” feature that will work across …
Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs, saying it is “spending significantly more” than it is making and that the layoffs and $500M in savings put it “in a more stable place”
The company is seeing a downturn in engagement on Fortnite — Epic Games Inc. is cutting …
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is “troubling” and that “it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic”
A federal judge on Tuesday called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic “troubling” as the AI company urged the court …
Arm says its AGI CPU offers up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 6GB/s memory bandwidth per core, and more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 systems
Arm launches AGI CPU, its first data center chip — Arm has announced the AGI CPU, its first production silicon product and its first Arm-designed data center CPU.
Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada
Apple on Tuesday announced that it will begin to allow advertisers to target customers on Apple Maps, starting in the U.S. and Canada later this summer.
Anthropic announces an “auto mode” that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion
ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude's auto mode reduces permission prompts for developers.
OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget
OpenAI is rolling out a new shopping experience within ChatGPT to make it easier for users to find and compare products, after its Instant Checkout feature failed to take off.
Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its “AI for Work” initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen
Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, will oversee the company's ‘AI For Work’ initiatives as focus shifts away from the metaverse
Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin
Quick Take — Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves.
Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, available in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to “north of $120B”
OpenAI is raising an additional $10 billion from investors as part of its historic funding round, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday.
Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its “open infrastructure” from infotainment to non-safety internal systems
Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles is an ‘open architecture’ for non-safety parts of the car's internal computer.
Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms
Baltimore sues xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices by marketing Grok as generally safe
Lawsuits against Elon Musk's xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning issues with its Grok image generator.
Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD
Databricks has grown from startup into major software company, generating billions by processing data and running generative artificial intelligence models for clients.
Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance
Amazon.com Inc. acquired New York-based startup Fauna Robotics, becoming the latest technology giant to step into the burgeoning consumer humanoid market.
Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield
The firms are part of a consortium working on the $185 billion project's operating system — Anduril Industries and Palantir Technologies …
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month
Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more
Apple has released iOS 26.4, bringing 13 enhancements to your iPhone. The new software update includes 8 new emoji characters …
Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW of capacity, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent a data center project in Texas that was originally being developed for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI …
How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds
Donald Trump's unpopular immigration crackdown has made links to the Peter Thiel-backed company a liability for candidates
The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain
Under the exchange's plan, stocks would trade as digital tokens — The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it was joining …
Sources: OpenAI nears a deal to raise ~$10B from Abu Dhabi's MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing its latest funding round to ~$120B at a $730B valuation
OpenAI is nearing a deal to raise about $10 billion from venture investors, according to people familiar with the matter …
Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield
The latest version of the Clarity Act is pressuring stocks as it would restrict stablecoin rewards. — What to know:
OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens
OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens.
Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM
SK Hynix Inc. plans to spend 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography chipmaking tools from ASML Holding NV …
OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives
OpenAI plans to invest $1 billion in various AI-related causes this year through its nonprofit arm, dramatically increasing …
Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company's ‘central brain’ because the software connects different departments …
Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays
Finland put on ice a plan to move its election platform to Amazon Web Services Inc., the latest development in Europe's drive …
Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML
Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them.
Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation
Halter, a New Zealand-based startup selling artificial intelligence-powered collars for cows, has raised $220 million from investors to expand …
Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization
Beehiiv, a newsletter platform for independent creators and publishers, has introduced a new update that allows users to manage …
Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025
Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).
Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch
Driverless car group pushes forward with commercial rollout to catch up with rivals Waymo and Tesla
Chinese media: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils the XuanTie C950, a 5nm, 3.2 GHz server chip, and claims it is “the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world”
Alibaba (9988.HK) on Tuesday revealed its next-generation XuanTie C950 5-nanometer processor at an internal conference on Tuesday …
Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+
Kleiner Perkins, the half-century-old venture capital institution, is raising $3.5 billion to make bets on artificial intelligence startups …
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot and a shift from its corporate focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies
TOKYO — Japan's Sakana AI has launched its first consumer-facing chatbot, marking a shift from being a corporate-focused …
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders
Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M
Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues …
Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX
Russia's Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network …
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand
Xiaomi Corp. posted its slowest quarterly growth since 2023, after strong sales of its EVs failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand.
The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $1T+ to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M
Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8 to 12 as a free online event for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 for developers and students
Sources: EA is selling a $15B debt package to fund its $55B take-private deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings
In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017
Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense …
Doc: Kalshi's and Polymarket's CEOs are investing in an upcoming VC, led by two early Kalshi staff, that's raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March
Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's Okta SSO account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users
Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.
US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment
Lawmakers call for commerce department to suspend licences that let company send advanced semiconductors to south-east Asia
European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable
Hummingbird to put $800mn in funds to work after lucrative early bets on the likes of Kraken and Lovable
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in Maps, letting retailers and brands bid for ad slots against search queries, to be announced as soon as in March
Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app, part of a broader push to generate more money from services.
The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries
Officials detailed the Bureau of Emerging Threats exclusively to ABC News. — Cyber attacks on the riseOne group of cyber experts …
Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital
Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.”
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric
SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits $30B more to OpenAI
Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments — SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …
Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M
Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair
London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank
Revenue rose 46% last year as its customer base grew by around a third, the fintech said
A jury begins deliberations in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit over child safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments, following six weeks of testimony
A jury began deliberations Monday in a landmark trial in New Mexico where social media conglomerate Meta is accused of misleading …
Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A
Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more
Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff
Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …
Microsoft hires a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12
Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, GeekWire has learned.
UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024
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The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers …
How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing tens of billions in startups and key customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips
‘This is what it is like to be rich!’ CEO Jensen Huang told guests before a recent opera performance.
Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens
ChatGPT maker pushes for browser ‘choice screen’ with alternative engine options — OpenAI is seeking to muscle …
A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box”
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
Kalshi announces new tech guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, coaches, officials, and others from trading in politics and sports markets
Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US
Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …
Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events where the user has a position of authority or influence
making clear what's prohibited, how we enforce rules, & how to report suspicious activity. The World's Largest Prediction Market runs on transparency https://www.businesswire.com/ ...Andrew Courtney /...
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket
just with a different name. They are being offered in states where sports betting is illegal, like California, while federal regulators are greenlighting them rather than enforcing the law. My bipar...
Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, China, data centers in space, the future of coding, and more
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more
and how the company reorganized itself to make sure its scale was not an impediment to seizing the AI opportunity, but an accelerant. Gift link: https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company's safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital …
Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora
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Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6%+ after hours
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