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- Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [2d]
- Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer) [2d]
- Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [2d]
- LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times) [2d]
- The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC) [2d]
- Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge) [3d]
- OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says in a memo that the show's purchase is to encourage constructive conversation around AI (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT every weekday (John Coogan/@johncoogan) [3d]
- Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [3d]
- Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge) [3d]
- Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword) [3d]
- Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026 (Financial Times) [3d]
- An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI contract "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence", more (Hayden Field/The Verge) [3d]
- Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pushes "AI self-sufficiency" (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [3d]
- How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 (Erin Griffith/New York Times) [3d]
- OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information) [3d]
- Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B+; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg) [3d]
- UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for core skills like writing (Sally Weale/The Guardian) [3d]
- Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times) [3d]
- Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless "spiritual successor" to WordPress, available on GitHub (Cloudflare) [3d]
- Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, saying it "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) [3d]
- A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansion last year, a decision some say led to its current supply crunch and growth bottleneck (Bloomberg) [3d]
- IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured ~41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share, which stood at 55% with ~2.2M cards (Reuters) [3d]
- Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian) [3d]
- Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times) [3d]
- Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) [3d]
- Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block) [3d]
- Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [3d]
- Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire) [3d]
- Variance, which develops AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by YC and others (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [3d]
- A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [3d]
- In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 (Nicola M White/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Google increases the storage of its $19.99/month AI Pro subscription plan to 5 TB, up from 2 TB, at no additional cost (Abner Li/9to5Google) [3d]
- Documents: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, following a $35M investment in February (Reuters) [3d]
- This new 'laughing rat' malware will steal your data and hack your systems — and then laugh at you while doing it [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #1530) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #1027) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #761) [2d]
- 3 of the biggest new Netflix shows arriving in April 2026 [2d]
- 'Unlimited 5G data': HP's latest AI PC ultraslim laptop promises superfast WiFi-killer broadband and built-in antivirus — just make sure you read the fine print [2d]
- If only your EV did this: Dell’s new supercapacitor keyboard and mouse combo delivers 'full day use' with a 5-second charge — here’s how [2d]
- 'Side effects may include curiosity': Google's $3 ChromeOS Flex kit aims to save your old Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap [2d]
- 'I was stuck on the overpass with dump trucks all around me': A mass Baidu robotaxi outage just caused traffic mayhem in China [2d]
- I ran my first marathon with the Garmin Forerunner 265s — it's 25% off right now, and I'd recommend it to almost every runner [3d]
- I'm a homes expert — here are my top buys from Walmart's big Patio & Garden Event [3d]
- 'We will have an official ceremony to mark the ending of an era. I love those cars' — Elon Musk mourns the officially retired Tesla Model S and Model X [3d]
- I found the best Geekom mini PC deals in the Easter sale — save big on some of our highest rated and reviewed mini PCs if you're quick [3d]
- Dell just made its thinnest Pro Premium executive laptop yet — a magnesium alloy featherweight that finally makes carrying a workstation feel effortless [3d]
- Amazon is giving away one of the best strategy games ever, plus loads of other PC games for Prime members [3d]
- Your next iPhone case could be made from lab-grown T-Rex leather thanks to ‘world first’ technology — but experts say otherwise [3d]
- I’ve been testing film cameras for years, and the Lomography Lomo MC-A easily just became my favorite [3d]
- How to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist in theaters – and can you stream it online yet? [3d]
- 'This rootkit is highly persistent; a standard factory reset will not remove it': "NoVoice" Android malware on Google Play infects 50 apps across 2.3 million devices, here's what we know [3d]
- NymVPN's Mac app gets the split tunneling feature users have been waiting for [3d]
- The Last of Us Online director reveals Naughty Dog had to choose between canceling the '80%' completed game and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet — 'It was soul crushing. To find out that it was getting canceled 24 hours before it was announced' publicly [3d]
- The Testaments review: praise be, the Hulu Handmaid's Tale spinoff doesn't disappoint under his eye [3d]
- Amazon is slashing prices on best-selling running shoes for spring — Nike, Hoka, and New Balance from $55 [3d]
- HMV has discounted a ton of Arrow Films 4K Blu-rays for Easter — here are my 6 picks [3d]
- 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working': Artemis II astronauts have the most relatable complaint [3d]
- I’ve lived with Samsung’s new flagship OLED TV — and I’ve never seen anything quite like it [3d]
- The Division 2's latest season promises yet more challenge and chaos as new modes and difficulties drop — plus some gear I simply must get my hands on [3d]
- How to watch 9Now outside Australia – stream online and from anywhere with a VPN [3d]
- New Mario Kart World update adds a new Bob-omb Blast Battle mode and major track item 'performance' adjustments for Bullet Bill and the boomerang [3d]
- 'God-tier battery life': Dell XPS 14 lasts 43 hours in longevity test that shows the laptop leaves Apple's MacBook Air M5 in the dust [3d]
- 'We want to make sure you don’t pay for more memory than you need': Raspberry Pi reveals further price rises — and the RAM shortage is once again to blame [3d]
- Asus just revealed big ROG gaming laptop price hikes — and they're so painful some thought they were an April Fool [3d]
- 5 popular OpenClaw integrations that will level up your productivity [3d]
- 'By replacing a legitimate update with a malicious one, they turned the product’s update flow into a malware distribution channel': Experts find flaw in TrueConf video conferencing tool used by governments, military [3d]
- Netflix has released the first trailer for its next animated movie Swapped — but, even with Michael B. Jordan's star power, I can't see it being the next Kpop Demon Hunters [3d]
- The pilot phase is over. Here’s what’s next for enterprise AI automation [3d]
- 'Switch to MAX, by any means necessary' — Inside Russia’s great internet crackdown [3d]
- AI & cost of legacy systems in UK banking [3d]
- AI hype and the quality hangover [3d]
- Google has doubled its storage allowance for its AI Pro plan, and it’s just one-upped ChatGPT — here’s how they compare [3d]
- Major clearance sale drops the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 to just £59 [3d]
- Why hands-on digital skills will define the value of AI [3d]
- Exclusive: I put the foldable Honor Magic V6 in a washing machine to test its durability — here's what happened next [3d]
- Nintendo Switch 2 price hikes are 'inevitable', says former Nintendo sales lead — and that's not an exaggeration [3d]
- 'The upgraded PSSR significantly enhances Assassin’s Creed Shadows' — Sony confirms a release date for its next-gen upscaling tech on PS5 Pro [3d]
- 'This is not an April Fool's joke': Crypto platform Drift suspends services after millions stolen [3d]
- "Protecting children online is a parental responsibility, not a regulatory one" — the VPN industry reacts to Government VPN spending amid discussions on restricting child VPN use [3d]
- 'I'm not missing the four hours of daily prosthetics': For All Mankind season 5 star on 'challenges' in new Apple TV show Imperfect Women [3d]
- 'We know exactly where we are going and exactly what we want to do' — The Division 3 senior producer suggests fans shouldn't worry about the departure of the game's executive producer, confirming its roadmap has been 'planned and secured for some time' [3d]
- There's a sneaky way to watch The Housemaid for FREE [3d]
- Hasbro hit by major cyberattack — toymaker confirms 'unfortunate incident' takes down some parts of its websites [3d]
- KitchenAid's new premium stand mixer has one brilliant feature I didn't realize I needed in my baking [3d]
- Maintaining cyber control when AI can act autonomously [3d]
- 'Time to unsubscribe' — Netflix made a big change to its Apple TV app, removing a ton of useful functions [3d]
- OpenAI doesn’t just want to answer your questions — it wants to run your digital life [3d]
- 'Spending more on AI is not the same as creating value': New study claims firms are ready to spend big on AI, but are afraid to take the first step [3d]
- The Division Resurgence developer says they're 'very satisfied with the touch controls' of the 'more tactical' game [3d]
- I thought the LG Gram Book could be the perfect sensibly-priced laptop for work or school - and boy, I was wrong [3d]
- Rethinking Zero Trust in the Age of Digital Warfare [3d]
- A 90-year-old audio brand just put out its most affordable speakers yet — and the specs look very tasty indeed [3d]
- I asked ChatGPT how to feel less exhausted — what it said wasn’t new, but it worked [3d]
- Smartphones in space — the Artemis II crew are throwing an iPhone around in zero gravity [3d]
- Making Tax Digital is here - and many accountancy firms are facing huge pressures [3d]
- Cloudflare launches EmDash — the 'spiritual successor' that wants to take on WordPress [3d]
- Celebrate Apple’s 50th birthday with these deals on watches and AirPods [3d]
- ChatGPT comes to Apple CarPlay but only if you are willing to talk to a robot [3d]
- 7 new horror movies on Netflix, Shudder, HBO Max, and more in April 2026 [3d]
- ExpressVPN’s record-low deal is still live: Get its best-ever price today [3d]
- ‘You can’t spread your energy like peanut butter’: Tim Cook shares rare insight into Apple’s ‘ruthless’ approach to new ideas — and it says a lot about what to expect (or not) from the company moving forward [3d]
- I tried Google’s new live AI search — and it barely feels like search anymore [3d]
- No new articles in the Past 24 Hours.
- YouTube Upgrades Its Music TV Experience, Just in Time for Coachella [2d]
- Amazon to Add 3.5% Fulfillment Surcharge as Fuel Costs Rise [2d]
- Want Fashion-Forward Smart Glasses? This Company Could Easily Make It So [2d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 3, #1749 [2d]
- It Was a Hoax: Jonathan, the World's Oldest Tortoise, Is Still 'Alive and Well' [2d]
- Flipboard Launches Surf, Pulling Together Your Social Interests and News Feeds [2d]
- Best Headsets for Working From Home in 2026, According to CNET's Audio Expert [2d]
- Flush With Success: Artemis II Crew Fixes Space Toilet [2d]
- Separate Shoots for Actors and Camera: How 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Was Made video [2d]
- iPhone 18 Pro Will Not Be Back in Black This Year, Insider Says [2d]
- Google's Latest Enticement for Its AI Pro Plan: 5TB of Cloud Storage [2d]
- Alexa Plus AI Can Order Food From Uber Eats and Grubhub, but Only With the Right Device [3d]
- Samsung's 2026 Frame TV Debuts Without Separate Breakout Box [3d]
- Microsoft's New AI Models Go Beyond Just Text [3d]
- YouTube TV vs. Hulu Plus Live TV: Which Offers the Best Experience for Your Buck? [3d]
- Purple Carrot Review: The 100% Vegan Meal Kit Service, Now With More Protein [3d]
- Foldable Phones Have Solved Nearly Every Trade-Off, Well Before Apple Debuts One [3d]
- Best LED Floodlights of 2026: Smart Lights for Big Spaces [3d]
- I Get Paid to Work Out. These Are the Earbuds I Use for Every Run and Gym Session [3d]
- Don't Buy the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Get This Phone Seriously Cheap Instead [3d]
- Pro Chefs Say These Are the 20 Most Useless Kitchen Gadgets [3d]
- I Tried a Space-Age, Self-Cleaning Air Fryer. Here's My Take on the Typhur Dome 2 [3d]
- Larger, More Spacious 2027 Kia Seltos Debuts With New Hybrid Variant [3d]
- Kia Covers All Powertrain Bases: New Seltos, EV3 Debut at New York Auto Show [3d]
- All-Electric 2027 Kia EV3 Coming to America Later This Year [3d]
- Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, April 2 [3d]
- Watch NASA's Artemis II Launch to the Moon video [3d]
- United Airlines App Adds TSA Wait Predictions, AirTag Luggage Tracking [3d]
- Crypto market structure bill release pushed back as industries view revised stablecoin yield compromise this week [2d]
- Here’s why bitcoin’s drop below $68,000 raises the risk of a crash under $60,000 [3d]
- CFTC sues Illinois over state's cease-and-desist letters against prediction markets [3d]
- Coinbase wins initial bank regulator nod for trust charter, boosting custody push [3d]
- Elon Musk's X to deploy scam kill switch by auto-locking first-time crypto mentioners [3d]
- How a Solana feature designed for convenience let attackers drain more than $270 million from Drift [3d]
- Bitcoin trims big loss, stocks erase 2% decline, as Iran signals cooperation on key shipping route [3d]
- Crypto for Advisors: Crypto custody’s evolution [3d]
- North Koreans hackers likely behind $286 million Drift Protocol exploit: Elliptic [3d]
- Oil shock, Iran war risk keep crypto investors on sidelines: Grayscale [3d]
- The 'time pain' trap: why bitcoin’s bear market might need a few more months of ‘boring’ to hit a true floor [3d]
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: index falls 4.5% as all constituents trade lower [3d]
- Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation, gathers support from Google, Stripe, AWS and others [3d]
- SoFi announces 24/7 banking hub that blends traditional cash with crypto [3d]
- Startup lets researchers mine blockchain tasks on a quantum computer for the first time [3d]
- Europe's first blockchain IPO is here: France’s new exchange is taking aerospace firm public onchain [3d]
- Audit admin keys, not just code, expert says after $200 million Drift exploit: Crypto Daybook Americas [3d]
- The ‘wash trading’ bust: Why the feds are finally calling out crypto’s dirty little liquidity secret [3d]
- Crypto markets tumble as oil surges and traders pile into bearish bets: Crypto Markets Today [3d]
- The bitcoin treasury boom is unwinding as some companies and governments sell holdings [3d]
- Beyond T-bills: OpenEden introduces tokenized high-yield corporate bond [3d]
- Metaplanet acquires 5,075 BTC, jumps to third largest bitcoin treasury company [3d]
- Ripple Treasury puts XRP and RLUSD inside corporate finance for the first time [3d]
- Bitcoin traders keep chasing Trump’s Iran noise. The real signals are elsewhere. [3d]
- Oil trader takes $17 million hit as tokenized crude rivals bitcoin liquidations [3d]
- Bitcoin, ether, solana slide further as Trump threatens to hit Iran 'extremely hard' [3d]
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