Tech

A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-4-26

White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-26 AI

Free Software Foundation Says 'Responsible AI' Licenses Which Restrict Harmful Uses are Unethical and Nonfree (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-26 AI

Intel's Stock Soars 24% Friday, Its Biggest One-Day Gain Since 1987 (slashdot.org)
2026-4-26 Intel

How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more (www.axios.com)
2026-4-26 AI

Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Korea Taiwan Samsung

Physicists Revive 1990s Laser Concept To Propose a Next-Generation Atomic Clock (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 5G

FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-25 Elon Musk

Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Intel

The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Intel

Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages (9to5google.com)
2026-4-25 Mobile Samsung

A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Oracle

Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 (www.pymnts.com)
2026-4-25

LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 LinkedIn

Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (anthropic.com)
2026-4-25

Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-25 Trump AI Republican

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete (www.economist.com)
2026-4-25 Europe

A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit against OpenAI at his request, and plans to proceed to trial on other claims (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 Elon Musk

ADT confirms data breach after ShinyHunters leak threat (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-25

BMW Is One Step Closer To Selling You a Color-Changing Car (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 New York Coinbase CFTC

Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 China AI

Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-25 AI San Francisco

Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb “bet-like” products (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 Brazil

Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Samsung Could Lose Money On Smartphones For the First Time (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25 Samsung

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