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1 April 2026

South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia:
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY  —  SEOUL — South Korean exports hit an all-time monthly high in March, government data showed Wednesday, as companies rushed orders …

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The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:
The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect  —  The verdicts in last week's social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates.  But it's possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

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A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg)

Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg:
A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump  —  Pakistan's new role as mediator between the US and Iran followed a long courtship of World Liberty Financial, Trump's crypto venture.

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An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)

Emily Mullin / Wired:
An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones  —  Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

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OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 (OpenAI)

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OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026  —  Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.

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Analysis: half of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, including China's Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
Analysis: half of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, including China's Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership  —  Chinese artificial-intelligence firms have emerged as one of the most volatile pockets of Asia's equity markets, with shares …

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Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service  —  Singapore's Grab Holdings Ltd. became Southeast Asia's first ride provider to start a driverless service, betting the technology …

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A suspected system failure caused a number of Baidu robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Zeyi Yang / Wired:
A suspected system failure caused a number of Baidu robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes  —  A suspected system failure froze Baidu's robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.

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The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

Pieter Haeck / Politico:
The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.

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Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws  —  Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc …

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Apple says it will push out rare "backported" patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Apple says it will push out rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS  —  As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners …

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Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data  —  Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM.

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Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios:
Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy  —  Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global, CEO Emmanuel Darras tells Axios Pro exclusively.

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Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence" for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence” for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation  —  AI cybersecurity firm Depthfirst has scored $120 million in funding to build a kind of “general security intelligence” that can defend against malicious AI.

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Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy.

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Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop  —  For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate.  Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger …

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)

Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico:
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns  —  The @nycmayor handle had been inactive since 2023 when former Mayor Eric Adams banned TikTok from being used on city government devices due …

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31 March 2026

Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hashed out FirstNet program changes with AT&T CEO  —  AT&T agreed to a deal worth up to $2 billion …

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Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity  —  Microsoft Corp. is in exclusive talks with Chevron Corp. and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a long-term deal that would underpin …

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Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Aarian Marshall / Wired:
Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so  —  The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph.  But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions …

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Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack  —  Cisco has suffered a cyberattack after threat actors used stolen credentials from the recent Trivy supply chain attack to breach …

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An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus)

Sebastian Mallaby / Colossus:
An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist  —  The inside story of how DeepMind's experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist

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Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief  —  Listening to a 100Hz sine wave tone for just 60 seconds could reduce motion sickness symptoms for up to two hours.

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Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025  —  Autonomous ship startup Saronic said Tuesday that it's raised $1.75 billion as it ramps up production to meet mounting U.S. military demand …

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Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach”  —  Anthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

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