Tech

Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI study tool to help students generate flashcards, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-7 AI Adobe

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-4-7 Google AI

Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-7 Israel Quantum

A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (words.filippo.io)
2026-4-7 Google Quantum

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (openai.com)
2026-4-7 AI

China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 China

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-7 AI

A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global “containment” (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 China Taiwan Manufacturing Intelligence

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI Sony

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 AI Tencent

Oracle reinstates the CFO role, appointing Hilary Maxson after Safra Catz became principal financial officer in 2014, amid investor scrutiny over AI spending (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 AI Oracle

Sources: Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-7 iPhone Apple

New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi's Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its SF HQ and London and Zurich offices (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 London Jeff Bezos

Q&A with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on data centers in space, memory shortage, Cisco's networking business, AI bubble, layoffs, AI coding, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-7 AI Layoffs Cisco

German authorities identify REvil and GandCrab ransomware bosses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Germany

A look at Alibaba's Accio, an AI sourcing tool that helps small online sellers connect with manufacturers, including in China; it exceeded 10M MAUs in March (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-4-7 China Alibaba AI

Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 IPO Retail SpaceX

An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (www.cbsnews.com)
2026-4-7

Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7 AI

The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 Tesla

German authorities identify REvil and GangCrab ransomware bosses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Germany

A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI

Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 Samsung

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Tax AI Robot

Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7 Amazon

OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate “anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-7 Elon Musk California

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-7 Google Startup

The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 AI

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