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Uber partners with Expedia to launch a hotel booking integration in its app in the US, and plans to add Expedia's Vrbo brand later in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Uber

Humanoid Robots Start Sorting Luggage In Tokyo Airport Test Amid Labor Shortage (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-30 Robot Tokyo

European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-30 Europe

SpaceX IPO filing: Elon Musk can only be removed as CEO via a vote by holders of Class B super-voting shares, which he will control post-IPO, a rare provision (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-30 IPO Elon Musk SpaceX

Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say in a $100M all-stock deal, to launch a unit focused on institutions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Israel Startup

Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit and Other Stuff and built by an early Twitter staffer, launches with ~500K restored Vine videos (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 Twitter

Brookfield-backed Compass drops plans to develop 800+ acres in Virginia's 2,100-acre Digital Gateway data center corridor, sources say due to local opposition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Virginia

Learning from the Vercel breach: Shadow AI & OAuth sprawl (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29 AI

Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month (www.cnet.com)
2026-4-29 Android India Google AI

GitHub fixes RCE flaw that gave access to millions of private repos (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29 GitHub

Rogo, which uses AI to help lighten junior bankers' workloads, raised a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $2B valuation, up from $750M in January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 AI

Sam's Club Plus memberships were $110, but now they're only $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29

Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29

Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-29 AI Goldman

FDA Grants Quick Review For 3 Psychedelic Drug Trials (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29

Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 AI

A working paper uses an LLM to analyze political discourse on X, finding that anger is the dominant emotion expressed by US users, especially those over 65 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29

Chinese regulators killed the Manus template by blocking Meta's $2B takeover in a 54-character decree, creating an uncertain era for China's growing AI industry (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 China AI

CISA orders feds to patch Windows flaw exploited as zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29

Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments, and enterprise networks, for ~$600M, set to close in Q2 (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 AI

Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a $300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Asia Startup Indonesia Southeast Asia

Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Samsung Asia AI

Microsoft says backend change broke Teams Free chat and calls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-29 Microsoft

Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of all lettings (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 AI London

Cash-rich AI startups fuel a boom in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market; many offices have more vacant desks than workers, as startups prepare to scale (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-29 Startup AI

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview, letting users pin up to four live streams, after a limited rollout in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-29 YouTube

Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include 10%+ of its global revenue from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29 China AI

Bengaluru-based stock trading platform Sahi raised a $33M Series B led by Accel at a $200M valuation to expand into margin trade funding, commodities, and more (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-29 Commodity

The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 Europe Facebook Instagram

New Report Finds Some Babies Spend Up To Eight Hours a Day on Screens (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29

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