Tech

Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-27 AI Adobe Salesforce

Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-27 India Google Apple

A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-27

Chinese regulators block Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus, after reviewing whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 China Singapore

A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Elon Musk

Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-27 AI

A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more (worksinprogress.co)
2026-4-27

Two Hot Climate Tech Startups Just Raised $1 Billion+ in IPOs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 IPO Startup Climate

How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Tax California

Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (x.com)
2026-4-27

Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-4-27 Microsoft AI

Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB raw material supplies; Goldman Sachs says PCB prices surged as much as 40% MoM in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-27 Goldman

Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms, calling for standardized contracts, fair pay, and stronger labor protections (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 China

Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Robot

Filing: Beijing-based GPU maker Moore Threads reports Q1 revenue up 155% YoY to ~$107.89M, and a $4.3M net profit, up from a ~$16.46M net loss in Q1 2025 (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-27

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 China Tokyo

Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentences ex-Tokyo Electron engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison for stealing TSMC's proprietary data (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-27 Taiwan Tokyo

Right-to-Repair Laws Gain Political Momentum Across America (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 U.S.

OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments (www.implicator.ai)
2026-4-27 AI

An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-27 Interview AI Entrepreneur

Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone's Location Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erd&odblac;s problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a nice achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (www.scientificamerican.com)
2026-4-27

Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-27 Israel Startup AI

Google Studies Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI Agents Browsing the Web (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Google AI

Elon Musk Vies to Turn X Into Super App With Banking Tool Near Launch (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Elon Musk

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (arstechnica.com)
2026-4-27 Trump Slack

Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Remembering The 1984 Unix PC. Why Did It Fail So Hard? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27

How Will Apple Change Under Its New CEO? (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-27 Apple

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