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Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (Wall Street Journal)

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (The Economic Times)

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (Wall Street Journal)

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)

South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45%+ this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A (Jim Hammerand/MassDevice)

Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside (Wired)

Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans (Politico)

Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in observability company Dynatrace and is pushing for changes to boost the stock; DT jumps 7%+ after hours (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide)

Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed applications to trademark the singer's voice and image, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI (Josh Gerben/Gerben IP)

Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press)

Apple will let developers offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment starting in May, except in the US and Singapore (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later this year, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses (Alexander Maxham/Android Headlines)

Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial (Wired)

A US judge seated a nine-person jury in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)

The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are "unwarranted intervention" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Kashable, which lets companies offer "socially responsible" credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor agent using Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database while in a staging environment (Jer/@lifeof_jer)

Canva says it "moved quickly to investigate and fix" an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word "Palestine" in designs, after a viral X post (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI "superlearners" (Will Knight/Wired)

Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved "AGI"; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique "multicore" architecture, extends its Series A to $140M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI (OpenAI)

Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content (Bloomberg)

Vilnius-based Vinted says it closed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, and Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)

Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to collect sunlight in satellites and is planning a 2028 demo (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

OpenView: by 2025's end, 79 of 500 tracked software companies, like HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce, adopted usage-based AI fees, more than double that of 2024 (The Information)

A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after WBD's Paramount acquisition; Nielsen: Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance; a source says the main issue is the UK adopting EU AI rules (Financial Times)

Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (Financial Times)

A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized "clipping" for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes)

A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical (Bloomberg)

A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, closely collaborating with TSMC and the US government, and more (Neil Hacker/Works in Progress)

Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption (Sam Goldfarb/Wall Street Journal)

How Sergey Brin's $58M+ political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues (Bloomberg)

Sources detail Microsoft's "Windows K2", an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (@mingchikuo)