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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that “required parting ways with some people”, after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the the company's xAI artificial intelligence venture implemented a reorganization that … | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
xAI will be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice products, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard, which will build digital agents to run companies — Elon Musk said he restructured xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, following the exit of two of its co-founders earlier this week.
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| New York Times: |
Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people — Instagram's chief executive said on Wednesday that social media was not “clinically addictive,” refuting claims … | Zoë Hitzig / New York Times: |
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy — This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a “chief futurist” role — OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other teams, Platformer has learned.
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks — We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Scaling is still one of the most important ways …
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| Matt Shumer: |
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of AI models, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years — Think back to February 2020. — If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May — Apple Inc.'s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks …
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| Financial Times: |
BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing “recent market and financial conditions” — Move comes during period of sustained volatility in digital asset markets — Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills …
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| CoinDesk: |
Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 — The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo” — Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G — Live Translation will be available to beta testers ‘this Spring.’ — T-Mobile is preparing to test … | Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more — You no longer need a subscription to create files or use Connectors and Skills in Claude. — Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities — Amazon Pharmacy, the retail giant's online pharmacy, plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns …
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini — Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot …
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers — Leading AI company Anthropic said it would upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases …
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B+ valuation, up ~3x from when it raised $415M in February 2025 — Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million … | Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng — Investigation set to prolong fight for control of a key automotive supplier — A Dutch court ordered an investigation … | Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Brandlight, which develops tools that help brands monitor how AI models perceive them, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners — Brandlight, which can monitor how AI models perceive companies, raised a $30 million Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners, CEO Imri Marcus tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A — Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined — EssilorLuxottica's more than tripled its Meta artificial intelligence glasses sales last year, the Ray-Ban maker said on Wednesday in its fourth-quarter results.| Financial Times: |
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country without workarounds — Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app — Millions of Russians were abruptly cut off from the encrypted WhatsApp … | Financial Times: |
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was “north of $400M”, up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end — French start-up is riding a growing wave of demand from European businesses for alternatives to US tech| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS — TikTok on Wednesday announced the launch of a new “Local Feed” in the U.S. version of the app, which displays content related to travel … | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. said it will spend more than $10 billion to build a data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, ranking it among … | CNBC: |
Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the startup is focused on “growing revenue” rather than “flashy headlines”, calls the software stock selloff “hyperbole”, and more — Anthropic is focused on growing its business rather than making “flashy headlines,” … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees — THE SCOOP — OpenAI's announcement Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT came after months of deliberation …
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