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GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-8

AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (www.wired.com)
2026-4-8 Italy AI Spain

TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 AI

An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-8 U.K. Bitcoin

RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-8 AI Layoffs

Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (x.com)
2026-4-8

Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Alibaba AI Tencent

TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Finland

Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Asia AI Robot

Russian Government Hackers Broke Into Thousands of Home Routers To Steal Passwords (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Russia

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (entrackr.com)
2026-4-8

Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (www.ft.com)
2026-4-8

Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed (www.axios.com)
2026-4-8 AI

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 China AI Nvidia

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's “looking forward” to answering the questions (www.bbc.com)
2026-4-8 Bill Gates

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot-ready 3D maps using phone, 360-degree camera, and drone data (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-4-8 Robot Drone Qihoo

Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (www.npr.org)
2026-4-8

A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Iran

Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-8

The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-8 Asset

Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-8

Apple Faces 'Massive Dilemma' With Success of the MacBook Neo (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 Apple MacBook

Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Mythos', Powerful AI With Major Cyber Implications (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-8 AI

Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Microsoft AI

Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-8 WordPress

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-8 AI

A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (www.wired.com)
2026-4-8 FBI Iran

Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (9to5google.com)
2026-4-8 Android Google AI

Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-8

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