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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

Hyundai unveils Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with Gleo AI voice assistant, debuting in May on the new Grandeur sedan in South Korea (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Korea AI

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

Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders told the NHTSA that Waymo robotaxis are “backsliding” and committing more traffic violations than before (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30 San Francisco

Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Elon Musk

Musk v. Altman: internal 2017 emails show Musk sought majority voting control over OpenAI co-founders, withheld promised funding, and tried to poach researchers (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30

FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (www.nextgov.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Analysts: TikTok Shop generated $4.9B in US sales during Q1 2026, doubling its volume from the previous year; Q1 consumer spending on the platform rose 46% YoY (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can “read” images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (www.wired.com)
2026-4-30

Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-30

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 YouTube

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

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 Google AI

Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 China Shanghai

Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to ~$90.2B, vs. ~$89.4B est., and operating profit up 756% to ~$38.5B, vs. ~$37.2B est., driven by AI-linked memory demand (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-30 Samsung AI

Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 AI Robot

New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30

Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool” for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 Elon Musk

Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30 WordPress

Official SAP npm packages compromised to steal credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30

Ubuntu's AI Plans Have Linux Users Looking For a 'Kill Switch' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Linux Ubuntu AI

Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., and Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est.; GOOG jumps 6%+ after hours (s206.q4cdn.com)
2026-4-30 Google Alphabet

Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-30 Russia WhatsApp Iran

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