Tech

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 AI

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-23

Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-23

Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting (apnews.com)
2026-4-23

Anthropic and law firm Freshfields sign a deal to develop specialized legal AI tools for document drafting, contract review, due diligence, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-4-23 AI

Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a $120M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-4-23

53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-23

France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 France Europe

Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-23 Netflix

Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 iPhone Apple iPad

S-1 excerpts: SpaceX says its total addressable market could be as much as $28.5T, with $26.5T from the AI sector, most of it from AI for businesses (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 AI SpaceX

Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40%+ in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 Singapore

Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-23

Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-23 AI Tencent

TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23

SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 Manufacturing SpaceX

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app IAP revenue crossed $300M in Q1, up 33% YoY, with non-gaming apps generating $200M+, much of it captured by global platforms (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-23 India Mobile Sensor

STMicro reports Q1 revenue of $3.10B, above $3.04B est., $171M operating income, above $165.8 est., and forecasts $3.45B revenue for Q2, above $3.21B est. (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23

X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks (x.com)
2026-4-23

Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals $27B or $400K+ per worker (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-23 Samsung AI

Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium (www.microsoft.com)
2026-4-23 Microsoft

Your Phone's Next Speed Boost May Come From Magnetic Chips (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-23

A poll of 4,000 workers in the US and the UK finds that the highest-earning and most experienced workers are adopting AI in their jobs far faster than others (www.ft.com)
2026-4-23 AI

Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-23 China Microsoft AI

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia has yet to sell H200 chips to Chinese companies and that the Chinese government has not approved such purchases (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 China Nvidia

Sources: Microsoft told carbon-removal project developers it is shelving contracts under negotiation; Microsoft has been a major backer of carbon capture tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-23 Microsoft

TSMC says it will hold off on using ASML's most advanced high-NA EUV machines, costing upwards of €350M apiece, for chip production through 2029 to save money (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-23

Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-23 Intel Tesla Elon Musk

GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default (www.theregister.com)
2026-4-23 GitHub

Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-23

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