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Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~$2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-24 Autonomous Car

Ukrainians won't call cops over draft fears – police chief (www.rt.com)
2026-4-24 Ukraine

Ukrainian press gang shoves ‘volunteer' off roof (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-4-24 Ukraine

Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-24 China AI

Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-24 Alibaba AI

As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-24

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-24 Ban Norway

Gaza's Informal Digital Economy and Resilience (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-24

Protesting Israel-US attacks on Iranian Schools, Colleges (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-24 Israel Iran

Iran Seizes Ships, closes Hormuz until US lifts Blockade (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-24 Iran

Dynamics and Surging Magnitude of US LNG Exports: Started 10 Years Ago in a Glut of Natural Gas that Collapsed the Price (wolfstreet.com)
2026-4-24 Gas

Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (www.ft.com)
2026-4-24 Germany AI Canada

Holding out: Japan rearms impressively, but Taiwan can't count on it (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-4-24 Japan Taiwan

FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-24 Ban

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (www.ft.com)
2026-4-24 AI

Kiev-backed neo-Nazis planned bomb attack on Russian media regulator – FSB (www.rt.com)
2026-4-24 Russia

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (simonwillison.net)
2026-4-24

Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-24 India

Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-24 India Welfare

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (restofworld.org)
2026-4-24 Startup

Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-24

China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-24 China AI

The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-24 AI Shenzhen

DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-24

Scientists create atomically precise molecular chains to power next generation tech (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Detailed map of life-threatening Vibrio bacteria reveals new target for treatment (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Move smarter not harder: how less exercise is more (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

in Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24 Africa

McMaster-built AI speeds up drug discovery, designs new antibiotic in early tests (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24 AI

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