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OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Sources: OpenAI nears a deal to raise ~$10B from Abu Dhabi's MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing its latest funding round to ~$120B at a $730B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple's plans for a Siri reboot include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and Ask Siri and Write with Siri features (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Anthropic announces an "auto mode" that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers (Financial Times)

Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield (CoinDesk)

Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its "AI for Work" initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its "open infrastructure" from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center project in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away (Bloomberg)

Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)

Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs, saying "we're spending significantly more than we're making" and that the layoffs and $500M in savings put it "in a more stable place" (Bloomberg)

Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)

How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds (Financial Times)

Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been "disrupted" due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find "misfit" founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (Financial Times)

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM (Bloomberg)

Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Chinese media: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm, 3.2 GHz server chip, and claims it is "the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world" (Reuters)

Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits another $30B to OpenAI (David Keohane/Financial Times)

How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (Wall Street Journal)

UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries (Shannon K. Kingston/ABC News)

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jury deliberations begin in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit over child safety risks, after both sides delivered closing arguments, following six weeks of testimony (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)

Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers (David Shepardson/Reuters)

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been posted on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits "will work out of the box" (TechCrunch)

Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)

Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed they accessed a support agent's account and stole the personal information of ~6.8M users (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)