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Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Google IPO SpaceX

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 AI

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-16

Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-16 Germany Europe Asia AI

UK Households To Be Urged To Use More Power This Summer As Renewables Soar (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 Renewable

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (restofworld.org)
2026-4-16 AI

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-16 AI

How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-4-16

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-16 China Singapore Malaysia

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-16 India AI

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-16 Amazon Shenzhen

Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (www.dispatch.com)
2026-4-16

OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16

Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 AI

European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 Europe AI

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” (decrypt.co)
2026-4-16

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M+ in revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Google Apple

Maine's legislature passes a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-16

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-16 Canada

Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-16 Korea Startup

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 Robot Boston Dynamics

Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 Startup Asset

Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-16 AI Apple

Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16

X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn (www.wired.com)
2026-4-16

New AgingFly malware used in attacks on Ukraine govt, hospitals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16 Ukraine

US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 China Ford

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-16 AI

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