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US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days (Wired)

OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations, reporting to CSO Jason Kwon (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers (Bloomberg)

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

Large US corporations are not ditching core business software for AI yet, instead seeking better vendor deals and "vibe-coding" smaller apps and customizations (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: worsening supply constraints in CPUs made by Intel and AMD add a fresh blow to PC and server makers already hit by a severe memory chip shortage (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules (Financial Times)

The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones in the coming years (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Amity, a Thailand-based startup that provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D as it plans for a 2027 IPO (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users (Neal Stephenson/Graphomane)

Sources: some Sora team members were surprised by OpenAI's sudden decision to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog on Sora safety standards (Reuters)

Source: Meta's rollout of Meta Ray-Ban Display in the EU has been hampered by regulations on AI features and removable batteries, as well as supply constraints (Bloomberg)

Source: SpaceX is aiming to file its IPO prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, and could try to raise more than $75B (The Information)

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

SK Hynix has submitted a confidential filing to the SEC for a possible listing of American depositary receipts in 2026; it reportedly considers raising ~$10B (Reuters)

Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a "buy now" button for Facebook ads (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to "north of $120B" (Morgan Chittum/CNBC)

Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is "troubling" and that "it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" (Maria Curi/Axios)

Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)

A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Arm says its AGI CPU offers up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 6GB/s memory bandwidth per core, and more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 systems (VideoCardz.com)

Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale (The Information)

OpenAI plans to discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Baltimore sues xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices by marketing Grok as generally safe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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)