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EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-3

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (venturebeat.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 Japan Microsoft AI

Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-3 AI Facial Recognition

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-3

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

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