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April 15, 2026, 3:00 PM
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Bryce Elder / Financial Times:
Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+  —  Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability  —  Snap Inc. is laying off roughly 1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, part of an effort by Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks  —  Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the “Project Moonlight” moniker that could do tasks for you by tapping different Adobe apps …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more  —  Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion from Android and iOS.  —  This “native desktop experience” is launched via an Option + Space keyboard shortcut.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, local files, and installed apps, screen share, and more
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €34B-€39B to €36B-€40B  —  ASML stock fell 6% on Wednesday despite raising its sales forecast for 2026 and beating first-quarter revenue and profit expectations.
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app, which requires showing ID, to shield kids from harmful content, setting the standard for verification tech  —  The European Union has unveiled an app to confirm users' age online, setting the standard for verification technology …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages  —  In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET:
Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Cal is reluctantly moving away from open source for security.  — This move isn't about Mythos, but risks from modern AI tools.
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat  —  EToro Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Zengo, a crypto wallet provider, as the trading and investment platform expands its reach into decentralized finance.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, noting that it has a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar  —  Amazon.com Inc.'s takeover of Globalstar Inc. is poised to benefit one of the company's biggest rivals in hardware devices: Apple Inc.
Madison Mills / Axios:
Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z  —  Hilbert, an AI startup rethinking how companies drive growth, raised a $28 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, the startup told Axios exclusively.
More: FinSMEs and a16z
David Ingram / NBC News:
Letter to Senators in January: Apple said it told X it may remove Grok from the App Store for not stopping the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes  —  In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.
IDC:
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first drop since mid 2023, amid memory constraints; only Samsung and Apple grew shipments, at 3.6% and 3.3%  —  Limited memory supply and record high memory prices increase pressure on smartphone OEMs to reduce shipments and increase prices that dampen demand.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
A review of publicly reported incidents of deepfake sexual abuse finds they have impacted more than 600 students at 90 schools globally since 2023  —  An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.
Juro Osawa / The Information:
ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China  —  ByteDance's cloud computing unit has made the company's Seedance 2. AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers …
Financial Times:
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on thousands of robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years  —  Ride-hailing app races to make up lost ground with equity investments and vehicle order commitments
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program  —  OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
Bloomberg:
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Nvidia Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI  —  Jane Street Group, a trading firm, has taken an additional $1 billion stake in AI cloud services provider CoreWeave Inc. and plans …

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Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation
Ben Bergman / Business Insider:
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple VC offers valuing the startup at as much as $800B in recent weeks, up from $380B in its most recent round in February
Laura Bratton / The Information:
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes
The Information:
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise's pricing, now charging $20 per month per user plus the computing capacity used, instead of $200 per month per user
CNBC:
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The US FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027
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