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Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native "pods" focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a pre-money valuation of $25B; JPMorgan is in talks to participate (Wall Street Journal)
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025 (Cyrus Farivar/The San Francisco Standard)
Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out (Corbin Davenport/How-To Geek)
Google sets a 2029 deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, aiming to "secure the quantum era" as "frontiers may be closer than they appear" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)
Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
The jury in Los Angeles' social media trial awards the plaintiff $3M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages; Meta will pay 70% and YouTube 30% (New York Times)

Wired

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OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
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How American Camouflage Conquered the World
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Engadget

PSA: T-Mobile customers have a week to sign up for a free year of MLB.TV
Jury rules against Meta and YouTube in social media addiction case
HBO Max's Harry Potter series premieres this Christmas
Webb and Hubble telescopes combine forces for a new view of Saturn
Razer's new Blade 16 has Intel's latest chips and ultra-fast RAM
Nintendo to start charging different prices for first-party digital and physical games
YouTube is bringing affiliate shopping features to more creators
Here's your first look at For All Mankind spinoff Star City
Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length
Meta lays off hundreds of workers, including more from Reality Labs
The Afeela 1 came too late and now is gone too soon
Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy
Spotify is testing a tool to help real artists deal with AI slop on their profiles
Reddit will prompt some accounts to 'verify humanness' in latest bot crackdown
Sony's upcoming Bravia 3 II is a mid-range LED TV available in sizes up to 100 inches
Sony adds the Bravia Theater Bar 5 and Bar 7 to its soundbar lineup
X is changing its revenue-sharing policy to deter users pretending to be Americans
Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Sergey Brin join Trump's tech advisory panel
Stephen Colbert is writing a new Lord of the Rings movie
Anthropic releases safer Claude Code 'auto mode' to avoid mass file deletions and other AI snafus
Ring adds 4K to its battery-powered video doorbells
Sennheiser's owners want to sell its consumer headphone business
Samsung Galaxy A37 and A57 hands-on: The cheaper phone might be a winner
Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK
The Afeela EV is dead
Meta is letting creators fill their Reels with shopping links
Jury rules against Meta, orders $375 million fine in major child safety trial
Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director
Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app
Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an 'Ask Siri' button in iOS 27
Zoox is bringing its robotaxi to new cities and expanding coverage in Las Vegas and San Francisco
AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT
Splitgate's 1047 Games is starting work on a Titanfall-style movement shooter
Three new Gemini features come to Google TV
Apple confirms ads are coming to Apple Maps
For All Mankind is returning for a sixth and final season
iOS 26.4 is here, with Playlist Playground and new emoji
Bandsintown integration for concerts is coming to Apple Music
Pokémon Champions will hit Switch and Switch 2 on April 8
The Punisher's one-off TV special hits Disney+ on May 12
There's a new Payday game, this time in VR
Epic is laying off more than 1,000 workers, citing a downturn in Fortnite engagement
Samsung's cheaper Mini LED TVs are now on sale
Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler
Ultrahuman opens US pre-orders for Ring Pro
Spotify's SongDNA can tell you all about the track you're listening to
The Morning After: WWDC 2026 is happening June 8th
Snapchat users sent 'nearly' 2 trillion snaps in 2025
Denon expands its multi-room speaker lineup with the Home 200, Home 400 and Home 600

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