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TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profit, beating estimates and hitting …
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts — Taiwan company expects revenue to grow by more than 30% and doesn't see material disruptions to supply chain| Bloomberg: |
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite policies prohibiting them, that have generated $122M+ in revenue — Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes — All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
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| Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand … | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt — Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content …
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse — The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.
More: NIST, Metacurity, Help Net Security, The Record, Infosecurity, ITPro, and SiliconANGLE
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple plans to send <200 developers from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 — Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more. Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more.
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A US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled — The federal government struck a settlement with Live Nation in March, requiring Ticketmaster to divest up to 13 amphitheaters …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 — Claire Lomas, a British paraplegic known for overcoming medical trauma to participate in the London Marathon … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for frontier models to help deploy and test agents on long-horizon tasks — Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises …
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B — An early investment in SpaceX has positioned Alphabet Inc. for a 12-figure windfall, a new filing shows, underscoring the vast wealth likely … | Emily Zemler / The Wrap: |
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M — “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film
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| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
X launches Cashtags, a feature that shows real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in users' timelines, starting with iOS in the US and Canada — Quick Take — Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the team has launched the “Cashtags” feature, which enables users … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The technologist and investor argues recent progress in AI is an industrial revolution-scale event but warns the ability … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance — Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google's Gemini AI models …
More: Reuters, Blockonomi, and Crypto Briefing
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI started leasing its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200+ London staff — Anthropic said Thursday it's expanding its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival OpenAI unveiled plans …
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a new AI model that can be used to develop games and generate videos simulating the real world …
More: South China Morning Post, Livemint, Benzinga, and Implicator.ai
| Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: |
Ohio's gambling regulator fines Kalshi $5M for operating unlicensed sports gaming, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling — The Ohio Casino Control Commission has fined online prediction market Kalshi millions of dollars for illegal operation in the state.| Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: |
Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be a model for the EU, as residents push back — Big Tech companies say northern Spain's AI buildout is going so well, it should be a model for other parts of the EU.| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue — Slash Financial Inc., a financial services startup run by two 24-year-old founders, has landed a $1.4 billion valuation … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Roku says it is in 100M+ homes globally and its devices are used by “more than half of all US broadband households”; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue — Roku Inc. said more than 100 million households are using its streaming platform, marking another milestone … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies like Infosys are running their new hires through many weeks of training to bring them up to speed on new programming tools.
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others — In the final hours of President Biden's term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden's last-minute pardons …
Bluesky: @bobbyallyn
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it”
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Former Mercor employees describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, like fraudulent bonuses, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September.| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, computers were still just computers.
Forums: r/technology
| Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: |
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone.
Forums: r/technews
| Rina Chandran / Rest of World: |
Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances — Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific — German agentic artificial intelligence startup Synera GmbH today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to scale …
More: Hindustan Times
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