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How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)

Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (The Economic Times)

Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (Bloomberg)

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Sources: Copilot sales hit "big audacious goals" by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are "lawfare" (Leila Sheridan/Inc.com)

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key. (Boris Cherny/@bcherny)

Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

Sources: Meta's "Project Walleye" Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (Financial Times)

Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)

Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period" (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (CTech)

Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization (Matt Mullenweg)

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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 (Katie Roof/The Information)

Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (Bloomberg)

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 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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 (The Information)

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 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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 (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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 (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)

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 (Bloomberg)