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10 of the Most Bizarre Buildings Around the World (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries Where Water Scarcity Gets Seriously Weird (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 People Who Infamously Appeared out of Nowhere (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries That Exist… but Aren't Officially Recognized (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-7 AI

MLB rolls out “robot umps”, or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Robot Sony

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 AI

The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

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

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