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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 …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, iClarified, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, and The Apple Post
X: @bzamayo and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space — In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, SPACE.com, Quartz, Engadget, Mashable, The Independent, Implicator.ai, Futurism, and The American Bazaar
X: @xai. Bluesky: @rmac, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @parismarx.com, @chrislawley.me, @stevekovach, @acidrains, @dancow, and @caseynewton. Forums: r/actutech
| 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.
More: Business Insider, Inc, Artificial Ignorance, and Spyglass
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Forums: r/programming, r/singularity, r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/accelerate, and r/mathematics
| Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: |
Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more — The beta that never was. … What you need to know — Google has released Android 17 beta 1 shortly after wrapping up Android 16 QPR3 testing.
More: TechCrunch, Thurrott, Android Authority, Android Police, HotHardware, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, PCMag, Livemint, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, SammyGuru, Digital Trends, Notebookcheck, Digit, Developer Tech News, Deal N Tech, Business Standard, Droid Life, Moneycontrol, Tech Advisor, SamMobile, and NPowerUser. Forums: r/android_beta
| 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 …
More: Ars Technica, Inc, The Verge, and The Decoder
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Bluesky: @janerosenzweig and @justinhendrix
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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 …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Cautious Optimism, Reuters, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, and The Information
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 …
More: About Amazon, Engadget, Quartz, Benzinga, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company, Fox Business, and Reuters
| 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 …
More: T-Mobile, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, MakeUseOf, Android Authority, Fierce Network, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, CNET, PhoneArena, and CNX Software
| 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 … | 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,” … | Alex Heath / Sources: |
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more — How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more...
More: MediaPost, Moneycontrol, Forrester, ACCESS Podcast on YouTube, and The Decoder
X: @tszzl, @sama, @craigzliszt, @fidjissimo, and @firstadopter. LinkedIn: Fidji Simo. Bluesky: @alexeheath.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode — The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content
More: Breitbart, Gizmodo, Benzinga, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, Inc.com, The American Bazaar, Newser, Newsweek, Moneycontrol, Digit, and TechCrunch
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Bluesky: @tyleraking.com and @shadow.hedgie.social
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @mhoye@cosocial.ca
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/ChatGPTcomplaints, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, r/stupidpol, and r/ChatGPT
| 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.
More: The Verge, Meta Newsroom, The Register, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, MediaPost, PhoneArena, Fast Company, Android Central, and Digital Trends
Threads: @katienotopoulos and @conno_r
| 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 …
More: The Block, Reuters, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Blockchain.News, Sherwood News, TheStreet, The Crypto Times, and Bitcoin Magazine. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| 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 …
More: Fox Business, OpenAI, U.S. Department of War, DefenseScoop, Decrypt, and The Hill
X: @semaforben, @miles_brundage, @dowcto, and @kaelan47
| 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 … | 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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
More: DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, Reuters, Tech.eu, Benzinga, and Mobile World Live
X: @paulbz, @nxt4eu, and @christianmiele
| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is “a bit panicked” about the memory chip shortage, and more supply may arrive in nine months; prices are up 80%+ in 2026 — More supply could come to market in nine months, executive says — The chief executive of China's largest contract chip maker …
More: Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Tom's Hardware, and Nikkei Asia
| 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 … | 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.
More: Bloomberg
| 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 … | 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others — A group of billionaires, including Sergey Brin, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor …
More: San Francisco Chronicle, SFGATE, and The Nerd Reich
| Financial Times: |
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show at least six researchers left in recent weeks — Jimmy Ba will be the sixth member of the founding team to depart — A sixth co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI is leaving …
More: The Information, Inc, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Hill, Forbes, PCMag, Fortune, Blockonomi, Barron's Online, The Decoder, TechCrunch, NewsMax.com, Implicator.ai, Entrepreneur, Silicon Republic, Business Today, Benzinga, Moneycontrol, Business Insider, BleepingComputer, and The Information
X: @jimmybajimmyba, @elonmusk, @chace_agi, @vahidk, @elonmusk, @rolandgvc, @autismcapital, @rschmied, @milesdeutscher, @10x_er, @adam_and_evs, @elliotarledge, @c_s_skeptic, @fleetingbits, @adam_and_evs, @yuchenj_uw, @bonegpt, @theonejvo, @shalev_lif, @beffjezos, @teortaxestex, @yuchenj_uw, @0xdevshah, @ns123abc, @yacinemtb, @negroprogrammer, @benhylak, @chatgpt21, @hamandcheese, @andrewbenson, @benjamindekr, @adam_and_evs, @rishibommasani, @theandipenguin, @dseetharaman, @graceihle, @liuyunlong63318, @iscienceluvr, and @alexeheath
Bluesky: @robertscotthorton, @seanokane, and @wilkos
| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance plans to produce 100K+ units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it, before ramping up to 350K — China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) …
More: DatacenterDynamics, SammyGuru, The Decoder, Techstrong IT, Android Headlines, Blockonomi, The American Bazaar, Proactive, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/news
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs — Here at The Information, we're always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world.| 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 … | 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 … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders — Some giant firms are discussing ways to avoid paying, while smaller ones have fewer options — WASHINGTON—The world's biggest …
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