Tech

A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 China

Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (www.engadget.com)
2026-4-3 Startup Sony

Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3 AI Biotech

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (www.platformer.news)
2026-4-3

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3

Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' By Guides In Insurance Fraud Scheme (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Insurance

OpenAI Acquires Popular Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3

Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-3 Amazon Canada Iran Logistics

LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K “head of AI” jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 LinkedIn AI

Amazon Imposes 3.5% Fuel Surcharge For Many Online Merchants (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Amazon

Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 GitHub

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (www.ft.com)
2026-4-3

Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 IPO SpaceX

The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-3 CFTC

IBM Teams Up With Arm To Run Arm Workloads On IBM Z Mainframes (slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 IBM

OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates” (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Raspberry Pi

Drift loses $280 million as hackers seize Security Council powers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-3 Startup AI

Google Announces Gemma 4 Open AI Models, Switches To Apache 2.0 License (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Google AI

Launch up to 50 WordPress sites for just $20 in this Hostinger deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-3 WordPress

OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (x.com)
2026-4-3

OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says in a memo that the acquisition is meant to encourage constructive conversation around AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (www.wired.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Artemis II Astronauts Have 'Two Microsoft Outlooks' and Neither Work (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Microsoft

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-3 YouTube RSS

Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (blog.google)
2026-4-3 Google

Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-3 Google

Nvidia Rolls Out Its Fix For PC Gaming's 'Compiling Shaders' Wait Times (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3 Nvidia

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