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South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Korea Robot

Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-7

The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered “Trump Accounts” for children when they launch this summer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 Trump Tax

Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-4-7

GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI

This Adobe Acrobat alternative just dropped to $70 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-7 Adobe

10 American Urban Legends Far Stranger Than Bigfoot (listverse.com)
2026-4-7 U.S.

LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 LinkedIn Browser

10 of the Most Bizarre Buildings Around the World (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries Where Water Scarcity Gets Seriously Weird (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 People Who Infamously Appeared out of Nowhere (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

10 Countries That Exist… but Aren't Officially Recognized (listverse.com)
2026-4-7

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-7 AI

MLB rolls out “robot umps”, or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Robot Sony

Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-7 AI

The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-4-7

Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI study tool to help students generate flashcards, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-7 AI Adobe

Natter, an AI platform for large-scale video conversation insights, raised a $23M Series A led by Renegade Partners and says it grew revenue 5x in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-7 AI

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-4-7 Google AI

Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-7 Israel Quantum

A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (words.filippo.io)
2026-4-7 Google Quantum

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (openai.com)
2026-4-7 AI

China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-7 China

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-7 AI

A Taiwan intelligence report to lawmakers says China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its chip manufacturing tech and talent to break through global “containment” (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-7 China Taiwan Manufacturing Intelligence

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI Sony

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 AI Tencent

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