Montag, 6. April 2026

04:05
Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals
Financial Times
02:05
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision-language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave without them
The Register
01:30
Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam
Reuters
01:20
Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue
Wall Street Journal

Sonntag, 5. April 2026

23:45
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
Tom's Hardware
21:45
Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025
The Information
21:20
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
New York Times
19:25
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
ChinaTalk
16:25
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices
Marcus on AI
14:00
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
CoinDesk
11:00
A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military
TechCrunch
08:00
TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023
Business Insider
05:00
How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands
The Hollywood Reporter
02:00
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”
Tom's Hardware
01:15
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
9to5Google
01:00
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
Financial Times

Samstag, 4. April 2026

23:55
US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request
Reuters
23:40
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
Politico
22:45
How some teens use popular AI-powered role-playing chatbots, and the high-stakes challenge for parents to understand their potentially addictive impact
New York Times
19:45
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
Reuters
17:55
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
AppleInsider
17:35
Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details “cognitive surrender”, where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning
Ars Technica
16:00
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
Wall Street Journal
12:20
Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates
The Economic Times
11:50
Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram
Bloomberg
09:55
Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more
Lenny's Newsletter
07:30
A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims
Wall Street Journal
02:30
The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play
Politico
01:25
Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages
Bloomberg
01:15
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans
Forbes
01:05
Sources: Copilot sales hit “big audacious goals” by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January
Bloomberg

Freitag, 3. April 2026

21:15
The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos
New York Times
20:55
Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are “lawfare”
Inc.com
20:25
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI
The Pragmatic Engineer
20:02
Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity
The Verge
19:35
Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.
@bcherny
18:50
Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan
The Hill
18:25
Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets
Financial Times
17:45
Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident
Wired
17:00
Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications
The Verge
16:05
Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period”
Big Technology
15:44
Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex
Sources
15:31
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks
Bloomberg
14:35
Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers
Wall Street Journal
13:50
Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok
New York Times
12:35
Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions
CNBC
12:00
Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year
CTech
11:40
Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model
The Information
11:05
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024
CTech
10:15
A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025
NBC News
08:50
Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems
Rest of World
05:45
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal
Reuters
01:21
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization
Matt Mullenweg
00:55
Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic
Wall Street Journal
00:00
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use
VentureBeat

Donnerstag, 2. April 2026

23:36
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically
The Deep View
23:21
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others
The Economic Times
23:06
Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029
Bloomberg
22:40
Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+
SiliconANGLE
22:30
Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round
The Information
22:00
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs
Engadget
21:30
A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction
Bloomberg
21:00
Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead
Bloomberg
20:25
Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M
The Information
19:06
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
The Information
19:00
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
Platformer
18:15
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
CNBC
17:40
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
Wall Street Journal
16:20
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
16:13
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
Financial Times
15:45
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets
CNBC
14:35
Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open sourcing its AI tech for detecting depression and anxiety from speech, after not securing FDA clearance
The Verge
13:47
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”
Wall Street Journal
13:38
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays
@johncoogan
13:20
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage all their agents in Cursor
Wired
12:35
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after launching in beta in December 2024
The Verge
12:15
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, like directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support, and exporting to YouTube
TechCrunch
12:10
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows and available under an Apache 2.0 license
The Keyword
11:55
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
Bloomberg
11:40
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
10:30
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal “unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence”, and more
The Verge
08:45
Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose 24%+ YoY to 18,720 in March, taking Q1's tech total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries
Bloomberg
08:15
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pursues “AI self-sufficiency”
VentureBeat
07:05
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales; it's tracking for $1.8B in 2026 sales
New York Times
06:50
OpenClaw launches an official China mirror of its ClawHub skills marketplace, with ByteDance providing the cloud servers to host the Chinese-language service
The Information
06:25
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
06:10
UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England have observed their pupils' critical thinking skills decline due to AI usage
The Guardian
06:01
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
05:50
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless “spiritual successor” to WordPress, available on GitHub
Cloudflare
05:40
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has “drastically enhanced” agentic coding
Bloomberg
02:15
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansions in 2025, a decision some say led to its current supply crunch and growth bottleneck
Bloomberg
02:00
IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured nearly 41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share to 55%, or ~2.2M cards shipped
Reuters
01:50
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users say they are being more selective
The Guardian
01:05
Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that reportedly affects 30,000 employees globally
The Economic Times
00:55
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
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 1. April 2026

23:25
Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq on April 1, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill
The Block
22:50
Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Fortune
22:10
Tim Cook discusses 50 years of Apple and it still being Steve Jobs' company, the “very accessible” Trump administration, his “consistent” values, and more
Esquire
21:55
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
Axios
21:15
A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a prospect on Pathways, a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio, which would violate the software's license
TechCrunch
20:50
Court filing: Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk allegedly missing the deadline to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022
Bloomberg
20:30
Google increases the storage of its $19.99-per-month Google AI Pro subscription plan from 2TB to 5TB at no additional cost; the 10TB tier costs $49.99 per month
9to5Google
20:05
Docs: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, after a $35M investment in February
Reuters
19:05
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is one complicating factor
Financial Times
17:45
Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an “active attack” on its protocol; Arkham data: $250M+ moved from Drift to a wallet, which now holds <$600K
CoinDesk
17:10
Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan
TechCrunch
15:30
Sources: the FBI deemed a recent China-linked hack of a US surveillance system a “major incident”, meaning it poses significant risks to US national security
Politico
14:50
Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors
Wall Street Journal
14:10
Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China
Bloomberg
12:50
Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December 2025 and February 2026 hikes, and unveils a 3GB Pi 4 for $83.75
The Verge
12:20
Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+
Axios
12:10
Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers
Fortune
11:45
Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M+ in annualized revenue, up from $10M+ in Oct.
The Information
11:27
Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing, and could seek a $1.75T+ valuation; it would reportedly raise ~$75B
Bloomberg
11:20
Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility”
Financial Times
10:55
SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28
TechCrunch
10:45
Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic
Bloomberg
10:20
Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its “Kairos” updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a “dream mode” to consolidate its memories
The Information
09:55
US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced
The San Francisco Standard
09:30
Sources: Amazon's “sponsored prompts” for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less
The Information
09:20
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 JV in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC closed up 8.84%
Bloomberg
08:25
India says its General Anti-Avoidance Rules do not apply to foreign investment gains made before 2017, after a court required Tiger to pay $1.6B on a 2018 sale
Reuters
08:05
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies
Wall Street Journal
07:15
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total
Crunchbase News
06:45
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024
The Information
06:25
How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty”
Financial Times
06:10
Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions
Bloomberg
05:55
As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era
Financial Times
05:40
Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, a day after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand
Wall Street Journal