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A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
Anthropic's Mythos Preview is not a publicity stunt, and sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)
GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing (Matt Burgess/Wired)
TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim (New York Times)
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)
Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits "to celebrate 3M weekly codex users" and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (Sam Altman/@sama)
FBI: US victims lost ~$21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users (Reuters)
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)
Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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8 Best Cheap Laptops (2026): Chromebooks, the MacBook Neo, and More
Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends
The iPhone Gets a D– for Repairability
Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything
Artemis II’s Breathtaking View of the Far Side of the Moon
Our Favorite Video Doorbell Is $40 Off
Best Electric Bikes (2026): Commuting, Cargo Bikes, Mountain Biking
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My Blissful Week as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist
He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): Netgear, Asus, Amazon, and More
Best Laptop Stands (2026): After Testing 25+ Models, These 5 Stand Out
How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple
Nobody Knows How to File Taxes on Prediction Market Wins
Europe Gets Serious About Age Verification Online
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Artemis II: Everything We Know as Its Crew Approaches the Far Side of the Moon
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Engadget

WhatsApp adds a better, native interface for CarPlay
Sony teases its next-gen 'True RGB' Mini LED TV technology
Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company's nonprofit arm
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI
X has a slightly more functional photo editor now
Apple's foldable iPhone is reportedly at risk of delay
Movie tracking app Binge uses Apple's Live Activities to warn about jump scares
Intel gets on board with Musk's Terafab project
UK Meta employee reportedly downloaded 30,000 private photos from Facebook users
Google updates Gemini's mental health safeguards
Chrome finally adds support for vertical tabs. 
Xbox Game Pass additions for April include Hades 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Sony is starting a weird service that scans people to put them in PlayStation games
NASA shares incredible photos from the far side of the Moon
ASUS ZenBook A16 review: A surprisingly light and powerful 16-inch ultraportable 
Motorola announces Moto Pad and next-gen Moto G Stylus
Spotify's Prompted Playlist feature now works for podcasts
NHTSA closes probe into Tesla's remote parking crashes
The Morning After: Apple’s foldable iPhone may be delayed
Artemis II astronaut puts all of our iPhone moon photos to shame
Amazon's new USPS deal will see postal deliveries cut by 20 percent
The League of Legends KeSPA cup will air globally on Disney+
New Jersey has no right to ban Kalshi's prediction market, US appeals court rules
Apple will again appeal to the Supreme Court in battle with Epic Games
Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models
NASA's Artemis II crew just flew farther away from Earth than anyone ever has before
You can now search through app reviews on the Google Play Store
Netflix just released a standalone gaming app for kids
How to watch the historic Artemis II lunar flyby
Mercedes-Benz recalls some G-Wagon EVs due to risk of wheels falling off
Samsung's Music Studio speakers and two of its 2026 soundbars are available now
Artemis II arrives in lunar space ahead of its trip around the Moon
The UK government reportedly wants Anthropic to expand its presence in London
Samsung will discontinue its Messages app in July and replace it with Google's
Devils on the Moon brings the score-chasing of pinball to the Playdate
The Spaceballs sequel will be released in April next year
Ursula K. Le Guin's blog has been turned into a podcast
An Italian court ruled Netflix has to refund its customers for price hikes dating back to 2017
Ireland is testing out a digital wallet that conducts age verification for social media users
Apple iOS 26.5 public beta is now available
It's no longer free to use Claude through third-party tools like OpenClaw
The latest on the Artemis II mission to the moon, and more science stories
Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out
AI animation studio Toonstar will turn books into digital shows for HarperCollins
Jason Blundell announces his new-new studio, Magic Fractal
Banks working on the SpaceX IPO reportedly have to subscribe to Grok
The Artemis II crew snapped some mesmerizing photos of Earth
March Madness 2026: How to watch the Final Four
Take-Two laid off the head its AI division and an undisclosed number of staff
Much like the game’s zombies, State of Decay 3 is somehow still alive

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