Tech

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for creating ads, translating copy, targeting, bidding, measuring results, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 Google AI

Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 London

Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy detection models to “surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets” and other tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30

OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, securing 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to ~70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30

Iran's internet blackout, which costs an estimated $80M per day in economic damage, is dividing its military and civilian government, which opposes the measure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Iran

Instagram is expanding its recommendation restrictions beyond Reels to photos and carousels, targeting accounts that post unoriginal content like tweet roundups (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-30 Instagram

Critical cPanel and WHM bug exploited as a zero-day, PoC now available (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30

Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500+ at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30

Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 Tax California

Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service, raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and signs a deal to bring its platform to Accenture clients (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-30 AI

DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 U.S.

Police dismantles 9 crypto scam centers, arrests 276 suspects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30

This multi-model AI workspace deal does the comparing for you (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30 AI

OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it (openai.com)
2026-4-30

Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-30 China AI Nvidia

Samsung says the memory shortage will worsen in 2027 as customers are already placing orders for that year, leading to a projected supply gap larger than 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-30 Samsung

10 Massive Landmarks Built to Bury Dark Historical Secrets (listverse.com)
2026-4-30

How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Unemployment

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the chip toolmaker after it discovered his family had invested in competing Chinese startups (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 China Startup Tokyo

European software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Europe AI Iran

Sony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams (www.gamespot.com)
2026-4-30 Sony

Memo: Google told employees that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over US DOD contracts (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 Google

First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Tesla

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-30 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-4-30 Apple

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30 Robot

GoTo reports net income of ~$15M for Q1 2026, its first ever, after job cuts and unit disposals helped Indonesia's largest internet company reduce costs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Indonesia

Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-30

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