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How the “War on Terror” Abroad came Home to America (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-30 U.S. Terrorism

First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Tesla

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-30 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-4-30 Apple

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30 Robot

GoTo reports net income of ~$15M for Q1 2026, its first ever, after job cuts and unit disposals helped Indonesia's largest internet company reduce costs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Indonesia

Expanding frontiers: how China's outward push could cause friction (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-4-30 China

Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-30

Hyundai unveils Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with Gleo AI voice assistant, debuting in May on the new Grandeur sedan in South Korea (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Korea AI

OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, with 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders told the NHTSA that Waymo robotaxis are “backsliding” and committing more traffic violations than before (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30 San Francisco

Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Elon Musk

Expanding frontiers: how China normalises its presence (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-4-30 China

Musk v. Altman: internal 2017 emails show Musk sought majority voting control over OpenAI co-founders, withheld promised funding, and tried to poach researchers (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30

India's Bangladesh gamble (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-30 India Bangladesh

FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (www.nextgov.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Analysts: TikTok Shop generated $4.9B in US sales during Q1 2026, doubling its volume from the previous year; Q1 consumer spending on the platform rose 46% YoY (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can “read” images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30

Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-30

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 YouTube

Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30

The Quad should share intel on critical-mineral supply risks (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-4-30 Intel

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 Google AI

On state visit to the US, Charles III cameos as King of Australia (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-30 Australia

UK Islamist sect members arrested over rape and slavery allegations (www.rt.com)
2026-4-30 U.K.

US presidential security deliberately weak – anti-terrorism expert (www.rt.com)
2026-4-30 Terrorism

Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 China Shanghai

Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to ~$90.2B, vs. ~$89.4B est., and operating profit up 756% to ~$38.5B, vs. ~$37.2B est., driven by AI-linked memory demand (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-30 Samsung AI

Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 AI Robot

The quiet contradiction at the heart of the energy transition (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-30 Energy

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