Cognitive Debt
AI coding tools were built to reduce the time developers spent writing code. They did. The time went to something else — reviewing code nobody wrote, debugging code nobody fully understands.
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit
Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital …
Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end
We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027.
Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025
Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon …
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT
The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning for how AI can be abused for scammy business and marketing practices
AI isn't the only thing behind Medvi — On Thursday, The New York Times published a thing — and it went viral, declared as a victory for AI:
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them
Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene — A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies.
Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages
Samsung has shared an “End of Service Announcement” for its Messages app in the US. Set for July 2026, Google Messages …
Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an “intelligent” ML-based system handles the rollout
Microsoft forces 25H2 rollout ahead of 24H2 end-of-support … With support for version 24H2 officially ending on October 13 …
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request
Bitchat launched in July last year and has been used during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran …
China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights
The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users say the changes are now restricting too many flights.
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand
It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only” and “Don't rely on Copilot for important advice”
A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state …
A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military
Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit.
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: 'Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?'" says one studio assistant.
Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to acquire Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B+ contract with Olam
Shares of Wipro (WIPR.NS) rose as much as 3.2% on Monday after the Indian IT services firm agreed to buy the IT services business …
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request
Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan's push driven more by necessity than anything else.
Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue
Silicon Valley's hottest startups have the same challenge: funding giant computing costs — OpenAI and Anthropic …
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more
ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence
A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities
a deep dive — Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children's artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures …
EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension
TrueUp data shows 67K+ software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in over three years, with listings roughly doubling since mid-2023
The US jobs report on Friday was surprisingly strong. That's not the only part of the job market that's doing better than expected.
Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD
Sources: Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, and others record an increase in demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals
With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talksLinkedIn:Kieran SmithLinkedIn:Kieran Smith:NEW: An Easter Sunday dive into t...
OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate “anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April
OpenAI on Monday sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, urging them to investigate …
The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code
Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion
Videos show A7 office in Nigeria, while company also claims new branch in Zimbabwe — A recent vacancy posted …
Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details “cognitive surrender”, where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning
OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business
OpenAI's purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.
A look at Eko, whose Arkansas “capture factory” creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models
In an Arkansas ‘capture factory,’ hand models and food stylists are preparing for the future of shopping
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff have departed over the past few months
When Binance pleaded guilty to US sanctions and anti-money-laundering violations in late 2023, rebuilding its compliance operation was key to the deal.
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B
Data center builder Firmus Technologies Pty raised $505 million in an investment round led by Coatue Management LLC …
Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers.
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license
Meta is preparing to release the first new AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to eventually offer versions …
Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services
Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in. — Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque …
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS
Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results …
How some teens use popular AI-powered role-playing chatbots, and the high-stakes challenge for parents to understand their potentially addictive impact
VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024
How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood
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Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity
- Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google's artificial intelligence chips,