Technology

Montreal&based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B+ in 2025 transactions (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)

Montreal&based Stay22, which helps publishers and creat...

Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and crea...

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning "programming is becoming unrecognizable" (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since Decembe...

Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since Dec...

UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs an...

Philip Stafford / Financial Times: UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,0...

AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $1...

Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei (Reuters)

Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model w...

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmaker...

Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)

Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess...

Axios: Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on...

A look at TAT&8, the first transoceanic fiber&optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)

A look at TAT&8, the first transoceanic fiber&optic cab...

Jane Ruffino / Wired: A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable,...

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and "no amount of vibe coding" could replace it; WDAY is down ~40% so far in 2026 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and Op...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and Ope...

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9%+ after hours (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. ...

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY t...

Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in ...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dall...

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscr...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subsc...

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense ...

Axios: Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or ...

Bengaluru&based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross&border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru&based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross&bord...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-b...

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement (Reuters)

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E...

Reuters: Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to F...

A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying more than 100M chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026 (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply...

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US...

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app...

Echo Wang / Reuters: Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Fac...

Software stocks extend their weeks&long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)

Software stocks extend their weeks&long selloff, with A...

Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: Software stocks extend their weeks-long sell...

Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD&pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a "Gaza Coin" or a new Palestinian currency (Financial Times)

Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD&pe...

Financial Times: Sources: Trump's “Board of Peace” is exploring a USD-pegged sta...

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcomin...

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the u...

OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate p...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the S...

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accou...

Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Google Antigravity users say their paid Google A...

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most&funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2...

Molly White / Citation Needed: Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on...

India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)

India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country...

Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times: India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of th...

Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hi...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hi...

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where compa...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where compan...

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a ...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seei...

Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines whether Netflix wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in violation of Clayton and Sherman Acts (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)

Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examine...

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines...

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI&generated art, and AI features (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform h...

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform...

An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launching in the coming week, over 50% of Notion databases now being built by agents, and more (Sources)

An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion...

Sources: An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launc...

How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented Anthropic as a leader in the lucrative, emerging market for AI coding tools (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, ceme...

India joins Pax Silica, a US&led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (Rajesh Roy/Associated Press)

India joins Pax Silica, a US&led initiative that aims t...

Rajesh Roy / Associated Press: India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that ...

Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will exceed $280B in 2030; last month, OpenAI said its annualized revenue grew to $20B+ in 2025 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will exce...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will ...

Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total compute spend by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4T in infrastructure commitments (CNBC)

Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$6...

CNBC: Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total comput...

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US&Japan trade deal (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a...

Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power ...

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over f...

Google rejected 1.75M policy&violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google rejected 1.75M policy&violating Android apps and...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps an...

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post&money valuation (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb da...

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb dat...

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsid...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation sub...

Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds "almost exclusively mobile", letting it better compete with Roblox (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from i...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says it is “explicitly separating” Quest VR from it...

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI&related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot (Bloomberg)

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110...

Bloomberg: Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building ...

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its...

Jeremy White / Wired: How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its cu...

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real&world issues (New York Times)

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 s...

New York Times: Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, ...

Apple adds support for third&party voice&based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple adds support for third&party voice&based conversa...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversa...

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high&severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that...

OpenAI: OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how wel...

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips w...

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non&technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent ...)

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, ...

David Singleton / flurries of latent creativity: Dreamer, founded by former Stri...

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti)

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a...

Shruti Rajagopalan / Get Down and Shruti: As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi d...

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint)

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expens...

Cheeky Pint: Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management com...

Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with camer...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with camer...

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencer...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers...

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