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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts (www.wsj.com)
30 days ago AI Iran

Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (giftarticle.ft.com)
30 days ago AI

Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Alibaba AI

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes (www.theverge.com)
30 days ago Android IOS YouTube

Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Google IPO SpaceX

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (news.crunchbase.com)
30 days ago AI

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (www.cnbc.com)
30 days ago

Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific (siliconangle.com)
30 days ago Germany Europe Asia AI

UK Households To Be Urged To Use More Power This Summer As Renewables Soar (hardware.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Renewable

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (restofworld.org)
2026-4-16 AI

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-16 AI

How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-4-16

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-16 China Singapore Malaysia

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-16 Amazon Shenzhen

Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (www.dispatch.com)
2026-4-16

OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16

Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 AI

European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 Europe AI

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” (decrypt.co)
2026-4-16

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M+ in revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Google Apple

Maine's legislature passes a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-16

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-16 Canada

Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-16 Korea Startup

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 Robot Boston Dynamics

Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 Startup Asset

Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-16 AI Apple

Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16

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