| 11:25 PM • | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill |
| 10:50 PM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz |
| 10:10 PM • | Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire: Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a “very accessible” Trump administration, and more |
| 9:55 PM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Variance, which develops AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by YC and others |
| 9:15 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license |
| 8:50 PM • | Nicola M White / Bloomberg: In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 |
| 8:30 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google increases the storage of its $19.99/month AI Pro subscription plan to 5TB, up from 2TB, at no additional cost |
| 8:05 PM • | Reuters: Documents: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, following a $35M investment in February |
| 7:05 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor |
| 5:45 PM • | Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an “active attack” on its protocol; Arkham data said over $250M had moved from Drift to an interim wallet |
| 5:10 PM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan |
| 3:30 PM • | John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a “major incident” |
| 2:50 PM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors |
| 2:10 PM • | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China |
| 12:50 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December and February hikes, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75 |
| 12:20 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+ |
| 12:10 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers |
| 11:45 AM • | The Information: Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M+ in annualized revenue, up from $10M+ in Oct. |
| 11:27 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing; it could reportedly seek a valuation of $1.75T+ and raise ~$75B |
| 11:20 AM • | Financial Times: Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility” |
| 10:55 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28 |
| 10:45 AM • | Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic |
| 10:20 AM • | The Information: Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its “Kairos” updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a “dream mode” to consolidate its memories |
| 9:55 AM • | Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced |
| 9:30 AM • | Catherine Perloff / The Information: Sources: Amazon's “sponsored prompts” for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less |
| 9:20 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 JV in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC closed up 8.84% |
| 8:25 AM • | Reuters: India says its General Anti-Avoidance Rules do not apply to foreign investment gains made before 2017, after a court required Tiger to pay $1.6B on a 2018 sale |
| 8:05 AM • | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies |
| 7:15 AM • | Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total |
| 6:45 AM • | Julia Hornstein / The Information: Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 |
| 6:25 AM • | Laura Pitel / Financial Times: How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty” |
| 6:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions |
| 5:55 AM • | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era |
| 5:40 AM • | Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, a day after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand |
| 3:15 AM • | Laura Noonan / Bloomberg: Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its success in attracting crypto firms |
| 3:05 AM • | Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY |
| 2:30 AM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts accepted that Meta's and YouTube's products have design defects, distinctive from what Section 230 was created to protect |
| 2:15 AM • | Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump |
| 1:50 AM • | Emily Mullin / Wired: Q&A with Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones |
| 1:25 AM • | Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Analysis: 50% of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, such as Chinese companies Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership |
| 1:15 AM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 |
| 1:05 AM • | Zeyi Yang / Wired: A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes |
| 1:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to start a driverless service |
| 12:40 AM • | Pieter Haeck / Politico: The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban their staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications |
| 11:10 PM • | Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Perplexity shared its users' data with Meta and Google even in its Incognito mode, violating California's privacy laws |
| 10:55 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches to protect iOS 18 users from DarkSword, a hacking technique that silently takes over iPhones running iOS 18 |
| 10:25 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Mercor confirmed it was affected by a supply chain attack involving open-source project LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data |
| 10:05 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy |
| 9:20 PM • | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence” for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation |
| 8:15 PM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later in 2026 that will include basic features and require a subscription to unlock more functionality |
| 7:55 PM • | Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani lets city employees use TikTok, with some security guardrails, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns |
| 7:40 PM • | Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: Salesforce announces 30+ new Slack features, including meeting transcription and note-taking and an operator mode to complete multistep tasks on users' desktops |
| 7:20 PM • | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the US Commerce Department |
| 7:05 PM • | Aarian Marshall / Wired: Letters to Senator Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't drive their vehicles; Tesla says its operators are authorized to do so |
| 6:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a ~$7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity |
| 6:30 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack |
| 6:10 PM • | Sebastian Mallaby / Colossus: An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist |
| 5:55 PM • | Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app for combating motion sickness via a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide up to two hours of relief |
| 5:40 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in February 2025 |
| 5:30 PM • | Iain Martin / Forbes: Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created chairman role, after he announced he was stepping aside in April 2022 from his role as “senior steward” |
| 5:15 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic confirms it accidentally leaked part of Claude Code's source code, calling it “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach” |
| 4:55 PM • | Lola Murti / CNBC: Snap's stock closed up 14.43% on March 31 after activist investor Irenic outlined steps to boost its value 7x, like cutting staff by 21% and shutting down Specs |
| 4:50 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit |
| 4:35 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis |
| 4:30 PM • | George Hammond / Financial Times: OpenAI taps retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of a $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest, ahead of an IPO |
| 4:15 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI closed $122B in committed capital led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously saying the round would total $110B |
| 3:30 PM • | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding |
| 3:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran |
| 2:20 PM • | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June |
| 2:10 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Google attributes the supply chain attack on open-source HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it tracks as UNC1069 |
| 1:40 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, which is <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast's price and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and recommits to video generation tools |
| 1:30 PM • | Julia Shapero / The Hill: Iran says it will target US companies, including Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Tesla, in the Middle East from April 1 at 8pm IRST |
| 12:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with ~20x fewer resources than expected |
| 12:20 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in one query as of iOS 27, and has explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect |
| 12:10 PM • | Ana Swanson / New York Times: A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring |
| 11:55 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs, as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people |
| 11:35 AM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Claude Code's source code for debugging leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a “Self-Healing Memory” system, and more |
| 11:20 AM • | Guru Baran / Cyber Security News: Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Reportedly Leaked Via Their npm Registry |
| 10:45 AM • | Kris Holt / Engadget: Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months |
| 10:20 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits |
| 10:00 AM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, with swappable nosepads and compatibility with more prescription lenses, on sale April 14 |
| 9:50 AM • | Yizhu Wang / Bloomberg: Amazon replaces Amex with US Bancorp as the issuer for its Prime Business and Amazon Business credit cards that it is relaunching in the coming months |
| 9:41 AM • | Reuters: OpenFX, an FX market-making and remittance startup launched by a FalconX co-founder, raised $94M led by Accel and others, a source says at a ~$500M valuation |
| 9:35 AM • | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: New York-based Linx Security, whose Autopilot agent proactively maps and remediates identity-related failures, raised a $50M Series B from Index and others |
| 9:30 AM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Micromobility delivery startup Also, a Rivian spinoff, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $1B valuation and enters a multiyear partnership with DoorDash |
| 9:25 AM • | Billy Steele / Engadget: AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature |
| 9:20 AM • | New York Times: Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer |
| 9:15 AM • | Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET: Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app |
| 9:10 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model |
| 8:50 AM • | Bloomberg: TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business for ~$472M, as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas; Sony retains a 49% stake |
| 8:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from HSBC just months ago in its push to build “the best trading floor for gold in the world” |
| 8:40 AM • | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ |
| 8:35 AM • | Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: Huawei reports 2025 revenue up 2.2% YoY to ~$127.5B, net profit up 8.7% YoY to ~$9.8B, and R&D spend up 7% YoY to ~$27.8B, as it invests in chip networking tech |
| 8:25 AM • | Bloomberg: CoreWeave raised an $8.5B loan from banks and investors to expand its cloud computing capacity, in what it says is the largest chip-backed debt deal of its kind |
| 8:15 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Sarasota-based Tenex, which offers an AI-enabled managed cybersecurity detection and response service, raised $250M led by Crosspoint at a $1B+ valuation |
| 8:05 AM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix feels comfortable raising prices knowing customers can downgrade to its ad tier; in 2026, Netflix is on track to double 2025's $1.5B+ in ad sales |
| 7:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources: South Korean memory chipmakers have sufficient helium stocks until at least June, and a South Korean minister ruled out supply disruptions in H1 2026 |
| 7:45 AM • | Joe Miller / Financial Times: US CTO Ethan Klein plans to urge the UK and its allies to help “shore up” quantum computing supply chains at a London meeting, after a US-UK tech deal standoff |
| 7:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: in 2025, Vietnam surpassed China as the leading supplier of laptops and game consoles to the US for the first time, despite President Trump's tariffs |
| 7:20 AM • | Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: Amazon strikes a deal to provide internet access on Delta flights via its Leo satellite business, starting with 500 aircraft in 2028, without disclosing terms |
| 7:10 AM • | Financial Times: The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft's business software unit to assess whether it should be designated with “strategic market status” |
| 6:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Beijing-based AI company Z.ai reports 2025 revenue of ~$105M, below ~$109M est., and net loss up 60% YoY to ~$680M, vs. ~$545M est., amid aggressive spending |
| 6:45 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba's new Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model, which processes text, audio, images, and video, is proprietary, marking a shift away from its open-source strategy |
| 6:35 AM • | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: London-based 9fin, which offers AI tools to help credit traders and investors originate new business efficiently, raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3B valuation |
| 6:25 AM • | Stephen Clark / Ars Technica: The US' GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, developed by RTX for $8B+, remains non-operational nine months after the Space Force took ownership |
| 6:15 AM • | Financial Times: Iran mobilizes its hackers to sow chaos, gather intel, and find targets; ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs says Iran is “throwing everything they have at this” |
| 6:05 AM • | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an “anomaly”, following a similar incident in December; the satellite likely exploded |
| 5:55 AM • | Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage |
| 5:35 AM • | Reuters: Amsterdam-based Nebius announces a $10B, 310MW data center in Lappeenranta, Finland, built by developer Polarnode and set to begin phased operations in 2027 |
| 5:20 AM • | Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Wearable maker Whoop raised $575M led by Collaborative Fund at a $10.1B valuation and says it hit $1B in ARR by 2025's end; 60% of its 2025 sales were non-US |
| 5:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Raspberry Pi reports 2025 revenue up 25% YoY to $323.2M, driven by demand in the US and China; its stock is down 21% in the past year due to memory chip costs |
| 4:35 AM • | Socket: A supply chain attack compromised HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency into specific npm releases |
| 1:35 AM • | Quratulain Rehbar / Nikkei Asia: Indian government data: India's smartphone exports rose 55% YoY to $11B in H1 FY 2026; analysts warn the Iran war may trigger a 22%-25% drop in the coming weeks |
| 12:45 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 |
| 12:00 AM • | Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data |
| 9:50 PM • | Thomas H. Ptacek / sockpuppet.org: AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities |
| 9:10 PM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state |
| 7:55 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; Rec Room had a $3.5B valuation in December 2021 |
| 7:35 PM • | Axios: Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; US officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI |
| 7:00 PM • | Lola Murti / CNBC: Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9% |
| 5:50 PM • | Vaibhav Srivastav / @reach_vb: OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks |
| 5:20 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 |
| 5:15 PM • | Qwen: Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks |
| 4:35 PM • | Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% |
| 3:15 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Gurman: Apple accidentally launched Apple Intelligence in China, then pulled the feature; Apple does not plan an imminent launch as it lacks regulatory approval |
| 2:40 PM • | Kara Scannell / CNN: Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws |
| 2:30 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations |
| 2:25 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community |
| 2:15 PM • | Financial Times: Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center |
| 1:45 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M |
| 1:10 PM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures |
| 12:45 PM • | Reuters: Sources: E*Trade is in talks to lead SpaceX IPO share sale to retail investors; Robinhood and SoFi have pitched for roles but SpaceX is mulling cutting them out |
| 12:35 PM • | Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI |
| 12:25 PM • | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 |
| 12:01 PM • | Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat |
| 11:20 AM • | Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed |
| 11:10 AM • | Sean Endicott / Windows Central: After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback” |
| 10:55 AM • | Derek Thompson: Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere |
| 10:10 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M+ |
| 9:50 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026 |
| 9:40 AM • | Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog: Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier early access program and unveils Researcher's Critique and Council tools, which use multiple models together |
| 9:10 AM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months |
| 8:50 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: New York-based Qodo, which offers AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, raised a $70M Series B led by Qumra, taking its total funding to $120M |
| 8:05 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: OpenAI's ChatGPT app store has 300+ app integrations six months after launch, but developers say adoption is sluggish and the apps offer limited functionality |
| 7:45 AM • | Anne Kauranen / Reuters: Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers raised €50M from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a planned dual US and Helsinki IPO later in 2026 |
| 7:35 AM • | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: London-based money transfer company Wise plans to launch UK bank accounts, joining an increasingly crowded market; Monzo reports 15M personal and business users |
| 7:20 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 |
| 7:05 AM • | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Trump actions and an ICE shooting |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: A study finds ~$143M in suspicious profits on Polymarket over two years, using patterns consistent with the use of nonpublic info, as prediction markets boom |
| 6:35 AM • | New York Times: Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns |
| 6:15 AM • | Matthew S. Smith / IEEE Spectrum: Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind of well-designed game, and more |
| 6:01 AM • | Brent Lang / Variety: Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make |
| 5:35 AM • | Bethan Staton / Financial Times: AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications |
| 5:00 AM • | Ezra Klein / New York Times: Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more |
| 4:40 AM • | Bloomberg: A look at Amazon's major push into rural US areas, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart's territory |
| 4:30 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total |
| 4:20 AM • | Bloomberg: DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app |
| 4:10 AM • | Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more |
| 3:51 AM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts |
| 1:20 AM • | Aarian Marshall / Wired: Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law |
| 1:00 AM • | Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reports 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$87M and data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.9M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO |
| 12:30 AM • | Sylvia Chang / BBC: PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors |
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