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US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-15 AI

The 10 Most Outrageous Military Designs from WWII (listverse.com)
2026-4-15

Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (www.ft.com)
2026-4-15 Uber Equity

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (deepmind.google)
2026-4-15 Google Robot

Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules (www.ft.com)
2026-4-15 AI Democrat

Sony Is Removing Many Popular Features From Its Free OTA TV Options (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Sony

Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (www.idc.com)
2026-4-15 Samsung Apple

Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (sources.news)
2026-4-15 AI Layoffs

A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-15 AI

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (www.quantamagazine.org)
2026-4-15

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (www.politico.com)
2026-4-15 Trump Ban

Maine's legislature passed 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)
2026-4-15

Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-4-15 Facebook YouTube Instagram

Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (9to5google.com)
2026-4-15 Google

Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-15 AI Salesforce

Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-15

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-15 Uber AI Budget

In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-4-15 Apple

Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

FCC Grants Netgear Conditional Approval For Routers (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15

Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-15

Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-15 AI

Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Microsoft adds Windows protections for malicious Remote Desktop files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15 Microsoft

Crypto-exchange Kraken extorted by hackers after insider breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-15

Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-15

The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-15

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-15 Amazon AI

US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-15 Israel

California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-15 California

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