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Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)
Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Oasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities, such as AI bots and automated work tools, raised $120M, bringing its total funding to $190M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
Google announces a new "advanced flow" for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times)
Cursor says Composer 2 is "frontier-level at coding" and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more (Cursor)
Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Wired

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Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’
A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
Should You Hike in Boots or Trail Runners? (2026)
Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro Dolby Atmos Projector Review: Big, Brilliant
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Apple MacBook Air (M5) Review: The Goldilocks MacBook
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The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
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Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
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Engadget

Android will hide some app sideloading behind a new one-time security process
The Steam Spring Sale is here with discounts on Arc Raiders, Hades 2 and much more
Meta will move away from human content moderators in favor of more AI
Don’t be surprised that the FBI is buying your location data
The complete Stranger Things DVD set includes 25 discs and costs around $200
Ubisoft ends development at Tom Clancy studio Red Storm
Meta isn't shutting down its VR metaverse after all
Kena: Bridge of Spirits launches for Switch 2 on March 26
Rivian will provide 50,000 robotaxis to Uber in a deal worth $1.25 billion
A new iPhone hacking tool puts some iOS 18 users at risk
Vampire Survivors spinoff Vampire Crawlers is coming to PC and consoles on April 21
Alexa+ launches in the UK
Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: A midrange phone that rivals the Pixel 10a
UK fines 4chan nearly $700,000 for failing its online safety act obligations
The FBI confirms it's buying Americans' location data
A Meta agentic AI sparked a security incident by acting without permission
Senator Blackburn introduces the first draft of a federal AI bill
Amazon will reportedly cut its USPS shipments by at least two-thirds
Google is testing Search Live in more markets
Hubble catches rare view of a comet crumbling
Perplexity's Comet AI browser is now available for iPhones
UK reverses course on AI copyright position after backlash
Microsoft will finally let you turn off Quick Resume for individual games
Double Fine’s Kiln pops out of the oven and onto PC, Xbox and PS5 on April 23
The Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer is filled with MCU cameos
Meta's latest creator push comes with $3,000 bonuses for posting on Facebook
Tech companies are teaming up to combat scammers
It's time for Game Freak to finally give Pokémon some proper voice acting
BMW's i3 is reborn as a sporty 440 mile range EV sedan
The Defense Department reportedly plans to train AI models on classified military data
How to prepare your phone for trade-in
Apple Studio Display XDR review: Expensive, but there’s no monitor like it
IO Interactive splits with MindsEye developer and ends Hitman collab
Defense Department says Anthropic poses 'unacceptable risk' to national security
Subnautica 2 might finally be entering early access in May
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
Apple releases its first Background Security Improvement for macOS, iOS and iPadOS
Remedy releases its final content update for FBC: Firebreak
Spotify rolls out 'bit-perfect' playback in Windows app
The Dune: Part Three trailer introduces Robert Pattinson's villainous new character
Arizona attorney general sues Kalshi on illegal gambling charges
YouTube and FIFA partner up for the 2026 World Cup
Fortnite will return to Google's Play Store globally on March 19
GPT-5.4 mini brings some of the smarts of OpenAI's latest model to ChatGPT Free and Go users
Switch 2 software update adds 'Handheld Mode Boost' for your old games
WhatsApp is now officially available on Garmin smartwatches
Starfield is coming to PS5 on April 7
More Game Pass additions for March include Disco Elysium and Resident Evil 7
Google makes Gemini personalization available to free users
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