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Sources: Google considers adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already offer access to Gemini in Gmail and Docs — Proposals would mark first time any of the software group's core product falls behind a paywall
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring home robotic devices, including a mobile robot that can follow users and a table-top device that uses robotics to move a display — - The company has teams working on automated home devices — The search is on for new growth sources after EV gets nixed
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| The Guardian: |
Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas — Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to those with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” — Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more — Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI. — 2014 doesn't seem that long ago to me.
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| Tim Stelloh / NBC News: |
A Washington state judge barred the use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence in a ruling that experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court — Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software.
More: HotHardware, Cryptopolitan, Gizmodo, and The Hill
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google Cloud and Cloud Security Alliance survey of 2,486 IT and security professionals: 63% of security practitioners believe AI could help in threat detection — Generative artificial intelligence technology is fast finding a home in cybersecurity operations, as a comprehensive …
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp ... of our AI engineering team”, after OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers — - CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer's board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer's $2B Savvy deal breaking down — Studio founder shares his view of the story behind Embracer's struggles, and why he's bullish on the group's recovery
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
SK Hynix plans to invest ~$3.87B in an advanced packaging plant and R&D facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, to produce high bandwidth memory chips from H2 2028 — SK Hynix (000660.KS), the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it will invest around $3.87 billion … | Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting their courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging using AI to solve lab assignments, and more — American University, other top M.B.A. programs reorient courses around artificial intelligence; ‘It has eaten our world’
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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An interview with Andres Freund, a Microsoft database engineer working on PostgreSQL, on discovering the XZ Utils backdoor, doubting his own findings, and more — The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine.
More: The Intercept, MakeUseOf, and Wired
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| Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo: |
Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers — And it'll be worse this time around! — The writing life, which has never exactly been a picnic for independent journalists and freelancers … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
US rock band Kiss sells rights to its music, name, image, and likeness to Swedish entertainment company Pophouse to create a live show, a source says for ~$300M — Sale to Swedish entertainment group Pophouse set to 'fulfil the band's vision to become immortal'
More: NME, Billboard, The Independent, Pophouse, Music Business Worldwide, Bloomberg, and Associated Press. LinkedIn: Sofie Nelson
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Pigment, a subscription-based business planning and forecasting service, raised $145M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, for $393M in total funding — - French software startup said to be valued above $1 billion — Funding round comes as VC financing remains sluggish globally
More: Tech.eu, Sifted, TechCrunch, EU-Startups, and Tech Funding News
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3 — Apple's online services were hit with an outage that cut many of us off from the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music on Wednesday night.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised $70M led by Maverick Capital to develop chips for cameras, cars, and other consumer devices, taking its total funding to $270M — - Maverick Capital leads funding round, Point72 participates — SiMa.ai's board includes directors from Intel and TSMC
More: The Economic Times and TechCrunch
| Hope King / Axios: |
AT&T plans to invest an additional $3B by 2030 to help close the US digital divide, after initially committing $2B by 2024, which helped nearly 5M Americans — - Many Americans want Congress to handle threats to affordable and reliable internet access, Axios' Maria Curi has reported.
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| Financial Times: |
Zhu Xingming, founder of Chinese robot maker Inovance, dubbed little Huawei, says protectionism won't stop its growth as automation is critical to supply chains — Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains — The founder of China's largest … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money — Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent cryptocurrency trading apps …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 security updates will cost $61/device for year one, doubling for year two and doubling again for year three, after ending support on October 14, 2025 — Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you'll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely.
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Forums: r/Piracy, r/technology, and r/microsoft
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