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Google updates Stitch to let users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an “AI-native” software design canvas and a reasoning design agent — Stitch is evolving into an AI-native software design canvas that allows anyone to create, iterate and collaborate on high-fidelity UI from natural language.
More: Stitch, Android Central, The Rundown AI, The Decoder, The Deep View, Digit, The Register, Neowin, The Verge, iPhone in Canada, The Decoder, and Benzinga
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| John Wang / @j0hnwang: |
More: Benzinga. X: @hewarsaber, @timhaldorsson, @scottastevenson, @dorizzdt, @hadley, @melkeydev, @aakashgupta, and @lexsokolin
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| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Meta will keep Horizon Worlds in VR for the “foreseeable future”, a day after Meta said Quest owners will lose access from June 15 — VR Worlds will be available for “foreseeable future” — One day after announcing the wind-down of its Horizon … | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft's recommendations for fortifying Intune, a tool that manages staff access, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week — The US government is warning businesses to secure their corporate accounts within a popular Microsoft Corp. management tool …
More: CISA, Help Net Security, BleepingComputer, Silicon UK, The Record, Reuters, The Cyber Express, Cyber Daily, and TWiT.tv. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
| Shubham Bose: |
An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of “hostile architecture” — If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time.
More: Daring Fireball. X: @leahlibresco and @leahlibresco. Mastodon: @gedankenstuecke@scholar …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization — A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Decoder, Unite.AI, Tech Times, DigiTimes, and Livemint
| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Senate hearing: FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI does purchase “commercially available information” that can be used to track people's location history — The U.S. Supreme Court has required law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant for getting people's location data …
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Guardian, Raw Story, The Hill, Biometric Update, Gizmodo, MediaPost, The Verge, Washington Times, and New Republic
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says it has appealed Italy's €14.2M fine for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount “staggering” — Cloudflare said it has appealed a fine issued by Italy over the company's refusal to block access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
More: Cloudflare, CyberInsider, TorrentFreak, and Reclaim The Net
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok — Apple AAPL -1.69%decrease; red down pointing triangle is on pace to surpass $1 billion in artificial-intelligence revenue this year … | Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says partners who resist AI have no place at the firm, and it plans to convert some services into AI-powered automated tools — Consultancy begins overhaul of pricing and services in face of technology undercutting its business — PwC's US boss has said partners … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” — Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI …
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY ~$41.3B, below ~$42B est., and net income down 67% YoY to ~$2.4B, as it seeks to monetize its expensive AI push — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. declared a target of reaching $100 billion of cloud and AI-related business revenue in five years …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis — The companies say they plan on deploying 10,000 autonomous Rivian R2 vehicles by 2031. … Uber and Rivian are joining forces …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Benzinga
| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook — Meta on Wednesday launched a new program aimed at luring top creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach.| Laurent Giret / Thurrott: |
Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android — Perplexity's Comet AI browser is coming to iOS and iPadOS today, four months after its previous launch on Android. The mobile browser comes with a built-in AI assistant … | Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal: |
The NHTSA escalates its investigation into Tesla's FSD to an “engineering analysis”, a step that could lead to a mandatory recall or other enforcement action — The probe covers about 3.2 million Tesla vehicles — Federal safety regulators are sharpening their focus … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT, after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out — After OpenAI's Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.| Brian Danga / The Block: |
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI — Quick Take — Crypto.com cut about 12% of its workforce, or roughly 180 roles based on a previously disclosed headcount of over 1,500 employees.| Mizy Clifton / Politico: |
Ofcom fines 4chan £520K for OSA violations, including a £450K penalty for failing to implement age assurance checks, giving it until April 2 to implement them — 4chan has until 2 April to implement age assurance, carry out a “suitable and sufficient” illegal harms risk assessment … | Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: |
DHL Supply Chain says it will open 10 warehouses in 2026 across North America to serve data center operators and component suppliers, totaling 7M+ square feet — DHL Group unit plans to open 10 warehouses across North America to provide logistics services to hyperscalers and their suppliers
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| Aaron Clark / Bloomberg: |
TechInsights: chip manufacturing emissions will climb by ~33% to 247M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, roughly equivalent to Algeria in 2024 — The rush to boost production of memory chips to meet fast accelerating demand from artificial intelligence will add … | Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: |
The UN-backed World Happiness Report says passively consuming algorithmic social media hurts teens' mental health, disproportionately affecting girls — Passively consuming algorithmic social media hurts teens' mental health, according to the World Happiness Report for 2026 …
More: The Guardian, The Indian Express, DutchNews.nl, Türkiye Today, Deutsche Welle, The World Happiness Report, The World Happiness Report, The World Happiness Report, The World Happiness Report, The World Happiness Report, Associated Press, ox.ac.uk, Forbes, Reuters, Wallpaper*, CNN, Dow Jones Newswires, and The Japan Times
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Sources: European chip importers are tapping backup stores and paying higher air freight costs as the US-led Iran war disrupts Middle Eastern cargo routes — European companies that import semiconductors from Asia are tapping into backup stores and paying more for deliveries … | South China Morning Post: |
Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 — The Chinese firms' price increases are ‘a reasonable response to evolving market conditions’, says IDC China analyst Cui Tingting
More: Benzinga
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate “one-person companies”, startups run by a single founder with AI's help — Under a national AI push, local governments are turning coworking space and data centers into AI incubators.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, above $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, above $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above est. — Micron Technology Inc. warned that it will need to spend heavily on production to meet burgeoning demand, overshadowing …
More: Reuters, CNBC, Fortune, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, Reuters, CNBC, CNBC, Sherwood News, Micron Technology, Inc., and WKZO
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based Parallel, which develops AI agents for hospitals and is initially focused on medical coding workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Parallel develops AI agents to automate hospital administrative workflows, improving efficiency and reducing manual work across coding, billing, and operations.
More: The Next Web, Parallel, and Sifted
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Chip industry executives say chip testing companies are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares more than tripled in the past year — TAIPEI — Companies in the chip testing supply chain are racing to keep up with a surge in demand as the AI boom drives global appetite … | Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg Law: |
Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act — The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote …
More: Roll Call, Senator Marsha Blackburn, The Daily Signal, The Tennessean, Axios, and Engadget
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