Tech

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

Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Teardown of Unreleased LG Rollable Shows Why Rollable Phones Aren't a Thing (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7

New GPUBreach attack enables system takeover via GPU rowhammer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

AP Offers Buyouts As Part of Pivot Away From Newspaper Journalism (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7

Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Australia Startup AI

A look at Eko, whose Arkansas “capture factory” creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7 Retail AI

Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7

How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (www.natesilver.net)
2026-4-7

Samsung's Messages App Is Shutting Down (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Samsung

Microsoft fixes Classic Outlook bug causing email delivery issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Germany

A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 CFTC

Microsoft removes Support and Recovery Assistant from Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (www.axios.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-7 Australia Netflix New Zealand Canada Philippines

More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 U.S.

Microsoft links Medusa ransomware affiliate to zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Microsoft

Drift $280M crypto theft linked to 6-month in-person operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 Solar

CISA orders feds to patch Fortinet flaw exploited in attacks by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7

Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-7 Tax AI

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