Tech

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

Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 (news.gallup.com)
2026-4-29 Autonomous Car

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a better OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more (sources.news)
2026-4-29 Microsoft Interview Jeff Bezos

Sources: China suspends issuing new Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis disrupted traffic in Wuhan last month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29 China Autonomous Car

Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65 per share for a total of ~$231M this week; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51 per share (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 IPO

Pentagon's Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-29 Google AI Pentagon

Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-29 China India Apple

Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 Google

New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-29 AI New York

Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos (www.axios.com)
2026-4-29

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 Microsoft

EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-29 AI

A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-29

Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-29 AI Twitter

OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (www.wired.com)
2026-4-29

Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29 Hong Kong Goldman

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (mitchellh.com)
2026-4-29 GitHub

OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subscriptions will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-29

Electrical Current Might Be the Key To a Better Cup of Coffee (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-29 Startup

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-29 Nvidia

Apple Vision Pro Used In World-First Cataract Surgery (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-29 Apple

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