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A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Bain Capital Managing Partner David Gross, Axiom Partners Founder Sandhya Venkatachalam, Salesforce Ventures Managing Partner Paul Drews, Westbridge Capital Principal and Head of US Investments Manthan Shah, and Morgan Stanley Globa... View Source

Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami's new studio, Unbound Inc., has been acquired by Shift Up, the company behind Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Unbound's unannounced games will be fully supported and distributed by South Korean publisher Shift Up, which is led by CEO Hyung-Tae Kim. Mikami is an icon of Japanese horror as the director of Resident Evil, its 2002 remake and Re... View Source

This is part of our package about Apple's 50th anniversary, read more here. The thing about the iPhone is that everyone knew it was going to be a big deal, and then it was an even bigger deal than that. Hell, it's still the biggest thing going. It's hard to remember, but almost 20 years ago Apple's first iPhone really was that good. The trick that Steve Jobs and Jony Ive kept pulling off in that e... View Source

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is exploring ways to make it easier for faculty and students to pursue their own startups and cash in on soaring demand for artificial intelligence... View Source

In January, a Finnish-Estonian startup proclaimed it had developed a truly solid state battery, a holy grail for the technology industry. Donut Labs’ cell wasn’t just solid state, however. It claimed it was made from cheap and easily available materials, would charge to full in a few minutes and last for hundreds of years. If real, such a device would change the face of the world, which is why ple... View Source

Follow latest updates, including how to watch the launch, as four astronauts prepare to set off on a 10-day, 685,000-mile journey with millions watchingThree of Artemis II’s four crew members are Nasa astronauts and spaceflight veterans extended stays on the international space station (ISS).Commander Reid Wiseman, 50, is a retired US Navy captain from Baltimore, Maryland. He was selected as an as... View Source

2027 EV3 | Image: Kia At the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, Kia announced that its compact electric SUV, the EV3, will be available in the US "in late 2026." The EV3 has been available overseas since 2024, when it launched in South Korea and Europe. The 2027 model coming to the US appears to have the same slightly boxy design as the current 2026 model, and it looks like Kia updated... View Source

Related Digital is finalizing $16 billion of financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center, after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors... View Source

Sony just revealed a trio of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April and it's a pretty stacked lineup. These will all be playable on April 7 for subscribers on any tier. After downloading, the games will stay in a player's library as long as the subscription remains active. First up, there's Lords of the Fallen for PS5. This is a sequel to 2014's Lords of the Fallen, despite h... View Source

Here's what's on the experiment roster for the Artemis 2 moon mission... View Source

The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 deliver good bass for a pair of bone conduction headphones. | Image: The Verge As the days get warmer, it’s tempting to take your workouts outside. Bone conduction headphones let you listen while staying aware of your surroundings, making them ideal for runs, walks, and more. Through April 7th, Shokz is discounting several models during its spring sale, from the Shokz OpenF... View Source

Artificial intelligence is being misapplied by executives who treat it as a technology rollout rather than a fundamental rethink of how businesses operate, Bain Capital Managing Partner David Gross said in a Bloomberg TV interview... View Source

Here's a feature that would've been a lot more useful before this week. Amid recent hours-long airport lines, United is adding security wait times to its app. However, the feature arrives a few days after security lines began returning to normal. Hey, at least it'll be there for the next shutdown.At launch, the feature is only available for United's hub airports. That includes Chicago O'Hare, Denv... View Source

Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, other than the ability to connect up to 100 of them together, but at that price, I don't really care. They're a quick addition if I need a bit more color and sound on my desk or in my son's room. The Kalls... View Source

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company... View Source

SpaceX has reportedly taken the step many onlookers have long expected: filing paperwork to hold an initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market and become a publicly traded company. Rumors had long pointed toward the IPO taking place by July. The company filed draft IPO registration paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission confidentially, according to Bloomberg. As such, the... View Source

Here's where you need to be to see the Artemis 2 moon rocket launch with your own eyes... View Source

It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Reals." In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap also includes a description of "Reals" as a place where "real people share real moments. Really." Spiegel adds that "People feel free to... View Source

Ken Smythe, Founder of Next Round Capital joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down the surprising shift in AI investing. He explains why OpenAI shares are flooding the market, how Anthropic is emerging as a stronger financial bet, and why OpenAI’s massive $122B funding round may not be as real as it sounds. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lucid Motors has recalled over 4,000 Gravity SUVs after discovering a problem with seat belts. The company told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that some of the anchors for the second-row seat belts weren't welded properly. This means that there's a chance they won't actually hold passengers during a collision. The company blames the issue on a seat suppli... View Source

The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed “Project Apex."... View Source

"It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business." That quote was first delivered by mob boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather, but last Monday, it became the title of a speech by the Justice Department's acting antitrust chief Omeed Assefi. At a George Washington University event co-hosted with the publication MLex, Assefi described an agency firing on all cylinders, standing strong against bad... View Source

SpaceX has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI company closer to delivering the biggest-ever listing... View Source

MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy remains so convinced that corporate foul play contributed to the disastrous launch of its debut game that it’s now planning to prove it to its audience via in-game content. In a wide-ranging interview with GamesBeat, BARB CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard said MindsEye will soon receive a multiplayer update, as well as a new mission called Blacklist in which the studio... View Source

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream aims to track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft after launch — here's how to watch it as it travels through space... View Source

As of today, the price of the 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by $100, a price bump that's almost as much as the original $120 price tag. Driven by the ongoing RAM shortage, Raspberry Pi is raising prices on over a dozen of its bare-bones computers, after previous increases in December and February. The increases range from $11.25 to $150. In a blog post announcing the price increas... View Source

OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload — as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic, its biggest competitor... View Source

If you're feeling anxious about AI and what it means for the future of humanity, you should watch The AI Doc: Or, How I Became an Apocaloptimist. As I noted in my review, the film aims to deliver some clarity amid all the hype. Now that it's in theaters, we sat down with director Daniel Roher, who won an Oscar for his film Navalny, to dive deeper into his complicated feelings around AI.T... View Source

Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social media, internet, or AI chatbot presence in 2026, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools’ Day: Don’t do an April Fools’ joke. Put the time and energy into doing something productive... View Source

Permira Co-CEO Brian Ruder joined Bloomberg Open Interest to break down how market volatility is creating real investment opportunities, how AI disrupted software valuations, and why incumbents hold the upper hand in the AI era. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Way back in 2017, Roland carved out a little niche for itself with the introduction of the Go:Mixer line. The small, portable audio interfaces are a convenient way to connect a mic and multiple musical instruments (or audio sources) to your phone for more professional public performances or on-the-go recording. At this year’s NAMM show, the company unveiled the latest in the family — the Go:Mixer... View Source

The PlayStation 5's curvy design is divisive. The Verge's Andrew Webster called it a "robotic clam" in his 2020 review, which is actually kind of endearing. Personally, I kind of got over hating it sometime during the past almost-six years of its existence. Small form factor PC enthusiast Devyn Johnston is someone who did not get over it. He was so not over it that he made and is now selling BoxPl... View Source

Artificial intelligence threatens to leave many of the UK’s best-paid workers without a job — and the government without a crucial source of tax revenue, according to a new report... View Source

The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weather Company (owners of the Weather Channel app) caught my eye. There are tons of good weather apps out there, and I’m the kind of nerd that likes to try them all, and Storm Radar feels pretty unique to me... View Source

Things aren't going so well in the video game industry. Consoles are getting more expensive, games are shutting down, layoffs are prevalent, the live-service space is a mess, major platforms are entering eras of uncertainty, and AI is infiltrating the medium in frustrating ways. Finding a bright spot is rare. But amid all of that, one company has managed to stay the course: Nintendo, which has nav... View Source

Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant in Ireland that it had previously sold to Apollo Global Management... View Source

A couple of years after its overseas debut, Kia’s EV3 will finally come to the US. The automaker said at the New York International Auto Show that the 2027 edition of the subcompact electric SUV will arrive stateside later this year. Kia won't announce pricing until closer to its sale date, but it has previously said it would target a starting price of $35,000.The EV3 could be a welcome addit... View Source

The "Pink Moon" will rise on the same day Artemis 2 is due to launch a crew of 4 to lunar space... View Source

Behold, the PlayStation 5 Pro. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The cost of the PlayStation Portal and every PlayStation 5 console is going up tomorrow, April 2nd, by as much as $150 in some cases. That means time is running out if you want to save yourself the money you’d soon have to spend to secure a PS5, which is why I’m going to point you in the right direction to get a console before the ch... View Source

As credit card companies with lofty fees compete for affluent consumers, the hottest new perks are wearable devices for tracking health, fitness and sleep... View Source

Banijay is launching the Black Mirror Experience, starting with Montreal in May with additional locations to be announced in the future. Specifically, it will be produced by Banijay Live Studio, the new subsidiary of the production company that owns Black Mirror, in partnership with VR firm Univrse. The studio describes it as an interactive virtual reality experience that blends “physical space an... View Source

"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon Enceladus start to be developed."... View Source

If you're tired of controlling Stream Deck devices by manually pushing buttons, then good news: Elgato will now let you delegate that task to a chatbot instead. The Stream Deck 7.4 software update released today introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, allowing AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Nvidia G-Assist to find and activate Stream Deck actions on your behalf. "You still set up... View Source

Rival tools such as Kling AI, RunwayML and Vidu have all seen user gains in the week since OpenAI said it would shutter its Sora AI video generator... View Source

There's just something magical about a robot that can convert into a car, tank or plane. It seems that Hollywood agrees as there are several major franchises based around that concept. As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, Transformers hold a special place in my heart, despite Michael Bay's best efforts at tarnishing its legacy. I spent countless hours as a kid playing with Hasbro and Takara'... View Source

SpaceX Starlink spacecraft was seen prior to breaking up in orbit by a satellite... View Source

NASA astronauts are poised to lift off Wednesday on a 10-day journey that will slingshot them around the moon, marking humanity’s return to the lunar vicinity for the first time in more than half a century... View Source

Europe lacks a unified approach to another complex tech issue... View Source

WWDC 2026, the latest version of Apple's yearly developer conference, runs from June 8-12, and by all appearances the company has some important updates to outline. In comparison to Liquid Glass, the design material Apple introduced last year and now uses across all its operating systems, the new features the company is rumored to announce might not be aesthetic, but they could make just as b... View Source

Africa’s biggest fund manager is seeking a buyer for Daybreak Foods (Pty) Ltd., its wholly owned chicken business in South Africa that has been plagued by scandals and a business-rescue process... View Source

Salesforce has unveiled the newest version of Slack, which comes with a whole host of new AI features to add to its ever-growing catalog. Naturally, many of these tools are embedded into Slackbot, which the company had already pledged to turn into a “personalized AI companion.” The new features include the stuff you’d expect, such as transcription, note taking and deep research, as well as integra... View Source

A Baidu Apollo robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu froze in a major city on Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them on highways, and causing at least one accident in snarled traffic. Police in Wuhan confirmed receiving multiple reports of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stopping in the middle of st... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is facing demands from child development experts to prohibit videos created with artificial intelligence from being shown or recommended to young viewers across YouTube and YouTube Kids... View Source

New York, New York, 1st April 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

NASA plans to make history today (April 1) with the launch of Artemis 2, the first crewed moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972... View Source

Within the lunar dirt is a type of helium so rare on Earth that a palm-sized container is estimated to be worth millionsIn the silent vacuum of space, five autonomous robots churn through the lunar surface, digging up a loose layer of rock and dust and leaving rows of uniform tracks in their wake.Stopping only to recharge at a central solar power station, the car-sized machines process the lunar d... View Source

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment... View Source

Microsoft Corp. pledged to invest $5.5 billion in Singapore through 2029 to support the country’s artificial intelligence industry, accelerating its expansion in a hub for Asia’s AI development... View Source

Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis program, is scheduled to launch today, April 1. NASA is opening a two-hour window for its lift off, starting at 6:24 PM Eastern time, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency said the forecast for launch day “shows an 80 percent chance of favorable weather conditions” and that, on March 31, its engineers had finished critical health... View Source

There were many complaints that radiating heat from AI Data Centers in space would be a huge problem but in fact they will be a huge advantage. On Earth, cooling an AI data center is an active, energy-hungry process. Chillers, fans, pumps, water loops, and heat exchangers devour power simply to stop silicon from melting ... Read more... View Source

KKR & Co. is planning a tender offer for Taiyo Holdings Co. in a transaction valuing the Japanese firm at about ¥500 billion ($3.2 billion)... View Source

TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy a majority stake in Sony Group Corp.’s global home entertainment business, giving a lift to the Chinese company’s expansion overseas... View Source

Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. On today's show, global stocks rally after the US President said he sees the war on Iran ending within two to three weeks. Donald Trump suggests the US has largely accomplished its military goals, and will lea... View Source

Mutmaßlicher Kreditkartenbetrug in Millionenhöhe. Deutschland hat im Ermittlungsverfahren “Operational Chargeback” weltweit Beschuldigte im Visier. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Fully crewed rocket will head to moon from Florida – first time since 1972 that humans will have left lower Earth orbitA little more than an hour before sunset on Florida’s space coast, up to 400,000 people packed on beaches and causeways will look to the heavens on Wednesday to witness a fiery spectacle not seen in almost 54 years: a fully crewed Nasa rocket heading back to the moon.The launch of... View Source

Jason Trost, CEO of Smarkets, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss the recent pushback against prediction markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA says there's an 80% chance the Artemis II mission will launch on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Bloomberg's Loren Grush is there with more on what to watch for. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investment banks leading SpaceX’s initial public offering are planning a meeting on Monday, April 6 with the broader syndicate working to prepare for the deal, International Financing Review reported, citing people familiar with the process... View Source

Bloomberg’s Matt Miller takes a look at Nvidia’s $2 billion investment in Marvell, part of an agreement to collaborate on silicon photonics technology. Plus, the debt binge fueling the AI boom continues, with CoreWeave raising $8.5 billion from banks and investors to expand its cloud capacity. And, the CEO of wearables startup Whoop discusses the company’s new $10.1 billion valuation after its lat... View Source

Chinese artificial‑intelligence firms have emerged as one of the most volatile pockets of Asia’s equity markets, with shares of newly listed model developers and chip designers swinging on retail flows... View Source

A number of Baidu Inc.’s Apollo Go robotaxis suddenly stopped on the streets of China’s Wuhan city on Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded and raising concerns about the safety and reliability of autonomous driving technology... View Source

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Anthropic PBC inadvertently released source code for its popular Claude AI agent, raising questions about its operational security and sending developers on a search for clues about the startup’s plans... View Source

Singapore’s Grab Holdings Ltd. became Southeast Asia’s first ride provider to start a driverless service, betting the technology can help cut costs and prove out robotaxis in dense urban traffic... View Source

Chipmakers drove a rebound in South Korean stocks as hopes that the Iran war may be nearing an end revived risk appetite... View Source

Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws... View Source

A fund focusing on smaller Taiwanese firms in the AI supply chain has emerged as a big winner, with a diversified strategy helping it weather the volatility that has rattled the industry over the past year... View Source

The former President of Baidu says AI tokenization is exploding in China, far beyond what OpenClaw illustrated earlier this year. Zhang Yaqin, who runs China's Institute of AI Industry Research at Beijing's Tsinghua University speaks to Bloomberg's Chief North Asia Correspondent Stephen Engle in Beijing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s listed companies announced the most share buybacks in almost a year last month as the escalating war in Iran drove down stock prices... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy... View Source

Valar Atomics, the nuclear energy startup backed by Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey and Palantir Technologies Inc. executive Shyam Sankar, has raised fresh capital at a valuation of $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The energy shock sparked by the Iran war is increasingly coming up in conversations about data center deals for Asian bankers, who have helped finance billions of dollars of artificial intelligence infrastructure across the region... View Source

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale may not have been as “big” as Black Friday or even Prime Day, but depending on what you’re after, the discounts are more appealing than you might think. Take charging accessories, for instance. Anker, Twelve South, Baseus, and others have sharply lowered the prices of some of our favorite add-ons, including handsome 3-in-1 charging stands, 25,000mAh battery packs, and inex... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Muddy Waters Research CEO Carson Block, Piper Sandler’s Anna Andreeva, PGIM’s Matthew Harvey, Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Jitania Kandhari, Coresight Research CEO Deborah Weinswig, Wolfe Research’s Tobin Marcus, Ham... View Source

Meta has agreed to "substantially reduce” its use of the PG-13 ratings system in relation to its Teen Accounts on Instagram starting April 15. Last year, the Motion Picture Association objected to Meta directly referencing its movie content rating, which cautions parents against letting their pre-teens engage with certain media. In a cease-and-desist letter seen by The Wall Street Journal at... View Source

If you’re keen to get a new 4K TV that has built-in streaming services provided by Amazon’s Fire TV software, it’s tough to get more for your money than with Hisense’s U6. The company’s 75-inch, feature-packed mini-LED TV is an even better value than usual thanks to the discount happening on the final day of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. Right now, you can get it for an all-time low of around $549.96... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is in exclusive talks with Chevron Corp. and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a long-term deal that would underpin a giant energy complex in West Texas, providing electricity to power a large data center campus... View Source

Against all odds, A24’s adaptation of The Backrooms actually looks like a proper elevated horror movie. Hell, it’s even got Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Serenity) and Cannes favorite Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) onboard. Judging from the film’s fist trailer, which combines The Backrooms creepypasta-born dread around liminal spaces, and A24’s slick horror aesthetic, you co... View Source

After Anthropic released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update, users quickly discovered that it contained a package with a source map file containing its TypeScript codebase, with one person on X calling attention to the leak and posting a file containing the code. The leaked data reportedly contains more than 512,000 lines of code and provides a look into the inner workings of the AI-powered coding tool,... View Source

On today's Big Take Asia podcast, we look at the OpenClaw frenzy in China: How the powerful AI agent is being embraced by a broad swath of users and what could go wrong... View Source

Two pieces of good gaming news today. First: Dinosaur Polo Club has shadow dropped a brand new game today. Second, it's available for free on both PC and Mac from Itch.io. The project is called Read the F*cking Manual, or RTFM, and it is a co-op game based on working in tech support.Dinosaur Polo Club is known for previous games Mini Metro and Mini Motorways. Both are stellar examples of simp... View Source

You can add multiple bulbs to a single room to create cooler, more colorful effects. | Image: Govee Spring cleaning isn’t just about clearing things out. It’s also a chance to refresh your living space, and a simple place to start is smart lighting — specifically, Govee’s Smart A19 LED Light Bulbs. The color-changing bulbs can instantly change the vibe of your home, and now through the end o... View Source

Here’s everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon... View Source

OpenAI has completed a deal to raise $122 billion from investors at an $852 billion valuation, marking the company’s largest funding round to date. Shirin Ghaffary has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Basketball player Stephen Curry has long collaborated with Google, and last year took on the role of “Performance Advisor” at the company as part of a multi-year partnership. It appears the first product of this union is “coming soon,” based on a video posted to Curry’s Instagram account. The 15-second clip shows shots of Curry playing with a basketball, and a gray-and-orange band sits conspicuous... View Source

NASA's XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation... View Source

ChatGPT is now accessible from your CarPlay dashboard if you have iOS 26.4 or newer and the latest version of the ChatGPT app, 9to5Mac reports. Apple's recently-launched iOS 26.4 update added support for "voice-based conversational apps" in CarPlay, opening the door to let you use AI chatbots with voice features through Apple's in-car platform. When using ChatGPT through CarPlay, the app doesn't s... View Source

Muddy Waters Capital founder and CEO Carson Block says investors are underestimating the risk AI poses to the labor market and US economy. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Block also comments on credit spreads and where he is finding investment opportunities. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a letter shared with Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Tesla admitted that its robotaxis are sometimes driven remotely by human operators, Wired reports. Competing self-driving car companies sometimes rely on human operators to tell robotaxi software how to get itself unstuck, but letting operators actually drive those cars remotely is more unusual."​​As a redundancy measure in rare cases … [remote... View Source

"I was hoping we were going to have a bigger crowd than this, especially with the nice weather and everything," Michael Maria told me. "I'm a little disappointed because the last march, I think there were about 10 times as many people at this time of day." At 11AM, the crowd at Portland's downtown waterfront appeared thinner than it had during the last No Kings protest in October. Some of this was... View Source

OpenAI has completed a deal to raise $122 billion from investors at an $852 billion valuation, marking the company’s largest funding round to date by far and bolstering its costly push for more chips, data centers and talent... View Source

Toyota is teaming up with Daimler and Volvo to work on fuel cell technology. The Japanese company is signing on to the joint venture cellcentric that Volvo and Daimler launched back in 2020. Once it officially joins, Toyota and cellcentric will collaborate on managing the development and production of fuel cell unit cells. "We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to soon be joining Da... View Source

NASA is hoping for a historic moon launch, not a punchline on April 1... View Source

Anker’s Laptop Power Bank is one of the more useful gadgets I’ve bought in recent years. I know, it’s just a portable battery, but it’s packed with power and thoughtful features that are tough to find in other models. And right now, you can buy it for $95.99 ($24 off) — the best price of the year so far — at Amazon during its Big Spring Sale, from Walmart, and directly from Anker through the end o... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. tapped Connor Storrie, the co-star of the steamy hockey drama Heated Rivalry, for its latest marketing effort, a short-film ad that instantly exploded on the internet... View Source

TikTok and Cameo are teaming up to make it easier for TikTok users to request personalized videos. The two companies announced a new integration that makes Cameo accessible directly from TikTok for creators and fans. With the update, TikTok creators can add Cameo links directly to their videos and viewers can request a personalized clip without leaving the TikTok app. Creators who aren't... View Source

The first full moon of spring, known as the Paschal Moon, sets the date for Easter each year... View Source

Taking 60 seconds to listen to a simple tone could make your next trip more enjoyable. | Image: Samsung Samsung released a new free app today called Hearapy, now available for Android devices through the Google Play store, that it claims can reduce the symptoms of motion sickness using just sound. The app's functionality is very straightforward. It plays a low 100Hz sine wave tone through a pair o... View Source

Bloomberg's Loukia Gyftopoulou, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Companies offering alternative assets in retirement savings plans would get more legal protection under a new Trump administration proposal. The changes could make it easier for 401(k) plans to include private credit, private equity, crypto and real estate investments. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran's armed forces, has threatened to target US tech companies' operations in the Middle East. It told employees of 18 companies — including Apple, Google, Meta and NVIDIA — “to leave their workplaces immediately to save their lives,” as CBS News reported. Those living close to the companies' facilities in the region were in... View Source

Comet MAPS is about to face its ultimate test as it sweeps just 101,000 miles above the sun's surface... View Source

With The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo entered the next phase of its plan to become a different kind of entertainment giant. Though it wasn't the company's first go at putting its iconic plumbers on the big screen, the film demonstrated that Nintendo could collaborate with partners like Illumination to produce box office hits. The first movie supercharged game sales at a time when the original... View Source

Twitter shareholders gained traction in another lawsuit against Elon Musk over the run up to his 2022 buyout of the social media platform, with a judge granting class-action status to the investors... View Source

Palworld developer Pocketpair just announced a bizarre spinoff called Palworld: More Than Just Pals. This looks to be a dating sim with horror elements in which you can romance the various Pals from the original game. The gameplay description suggests it's set at a mysterious school, and players can not only fall in love with these creatures, but also "dismantle and eat them." The o... View Source

"If an event is particularly bad, there are some places in the capsule, such as storage bays and down by the toilet, that the crew can go to."... View Source

The Evercade Nexus will launch at $199.99 when preorders open. | Image: Evercade After releasing smaller versions of its handhelds, Evercade has announced a new portable console called the Nexus featuring a large 5.89-inch screen. That's larger than the 4.3-inch screen on Evercade's previous handheld, the EXP-R. The Nexus' display also delivers a small bump in resolution from 800×480 pixels... View Source

NASA prepares to send astronauts on a journey around the moon for the first time in over 50 years. Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, a senior fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center and a former NASA executive and White House space policy advisor, discusses why the space agency needs this ‘dress rehearsal’ before a planned lunar landing in 2028. She speaks with Matt Miller on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is once more turning its lens on Microsoft. The tech company will be the focus of an investigation by the regulator to see if it can be assigned strategic market status (SMS). The CMA already has "a major concern" with Microsoft's alleged limiting of competition in the cloud space via productivity software like Word and Excel, chat app... View Source

Unistellar co-founder tells Space.com about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense... View Source

Love to see the BACKSST BOYS at the Sphere. The Google Pixel 9 walked so that the Samsung Galaxy S26 could run. Google introduced AI editing tools to Photos slowly. It started with changes to the background - make the sky more blue, or remove crowds of tourists. Things got weird once the company added natural language requests and let you ask for basically any change. There were some guardrails, b... View Source

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—This will be the third time I have observed NASA’s Orion spacecraft take flight. But with this one, for the first time, am I genuinely hopeful about the future of the space agency and its plans to build a station on the surface of the Moon. The two previous flights, in 2014 and 2022, both felt hollow. NASA, an aging bureaucracy, has repeatedly sought to recapture its fad... View Source

Autonomous military boat startup Saronic Technologies has raised $1.75 billion as interest in backing defense tech companies continues. Saronic CEO Dino Mavrookas joins “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss how the funds will be put to work to grow production of its unmanned ships. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses has arrived and, as rumored, they are more customizable, particularly for people who need prescription lenses. Meta and Ray-Ban parent company EssilorLuxottica revealed two new styles of frames: the Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, which will start at $499 a pair.  The latest glasses are still considered to be part of the "... View Source

The four astronaut's of NASA's Artemis 2 mission arrived in style at Kennedy Space Center ahead of their historic moon mission... View Source

The Sonos Play can rest on its charging base while at home. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge After a couple of quiet years, Sonos is back with two new consumer speakers: the portable Sonos Play and the more affordable Era 100 SL. They retail for $299 and $189, respectively, and both are now widely available following their announcement earlier this month. With its utility loop and water-resista... View Source

The GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System was due for completion in 2016. Ten years later, the software for controlling the military’s GPS satellites still doesn’t work... View Source

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—This will be the third time I have observed NASA’s Orion spacecraft take flight. But with this one, for the first time, am I genuinely hopeful about the future of the space agency and its plans to build a station on the surface of the Moon. The two previous flights, in 2014 and 2022, both felt hollow. NASA, an aging bureaucracy, has repeatedly sought to recapture its fad... View Source

Axios, a tool widely used to develop software applications, was compromised overnight, introducing a vulnerability in a key part of the internet’s plumbing... View Source

Adults of a certain age will no doubt remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a cartoon from 1989 that starred our favorite sibling plumbers decades before they would take over multiplexes with an animated film franchise. The broadcast channel MeTV Toons has begun airing old episodes of the show, likely to trade on the buzz emanating from the pending theatrical release of The Super Mario Galaxy... View Source

The movie that took Shakespeare to the stars, and wrote the blueprint for movie space opera... View Source

The Aqara G350 is the first camera you can buy that supports Matter. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) released Matter 1.5.1 today, building upon the camera and video doorbell support added as part of the Matter 1.5 update last November. Although 1.5.1 is a minor update, it brings several improvements that will benefit both end users and compa... View Source

Iranian authorities arrested dozens of people who were allegedly in a network that sold Starlink satellite terminals, as Tehran expands efforts to control information more than a month into its war with the US and Israel... View Source

DoorDash's autonomous delivery plans will get an assist from the Rivian spinoff Also. On Tuesday, the companies announced a strategic partnership in which the delivery company will invest in Also. They intend to "develop and accelerate deployment of autonomous delivery at scale."The companies didn't specify which micromobility vehicles will be used. Also, which Rivian spun off... View Source

"Playing military characters is always interesting for me. They're all homages to a family member."... View Source

The curriculum at creative institutions is evolving to handle gen AI tools, and a lot of people aren’t happy about it. | Image by Cath Virginia / The Verge When my baby brother, a 3D modelling and animation student, talks to me about his projects and studies, the pride I usually feel is becoming increasingly tainted by a growing sense of dread. As a creative professional and former design student... View Source

Apple Inc. is testing a feature that would let Siri process multiple requests in a single query, according to people familiar with the matter, breaking new ground for the nearly 15-year-old digital assistant... View Source

In-flight Wi-Fi on Delta flights will be provided by Amazon Leo beginning in 2028, the two companies have announced. In a blow to Elon Musk’s Starlink, Amazon’s deal with Delta will see its satellite internet service installed on 500 Delta aircraft initially, each equipped with its own Leo antenna. Amazon promises low-latency Wi-Fi with download speeds up to 1Gbps and upload speeds up to 400Mbps,... View Source

NASA/Jessica Meir NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took this photo of an Artemis program patch floating in the International Space Station’s cupola. She posted it on X on March 30, 2026, with the following caption: “Our work on the @Space_Station has provided the foundation to explore further, preparing us to return humans to the Moon this week. Stay tuned as we enter the @NASAArtemis era!... View Source

The crew's 10-day mission will be filled with science, spacecraft tests, medical checks, survival training and more... View Source

Future Bravia TVs will feature Sony branding with TCL’s display technology. | Image: Sony After signing a nonbinding agreement in January to spin off its TV business, today Sony officially announced that TCL will pay approximately 75.4 billion yen (over $473 million) for a 51 percent stake in a new joint venture called Bravia Inc., with Sony holding the remaining 49 percent. Bravia Inc., which wil... View Source

The owner of William Hill plans to shutter about 200 betting shops in the UK, putting a significant number of jobs at risk, following a crackdown on the gambling sector by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves... View Source

The Roblox-like VR title Rec Room is shutting down after operating for a decade. The free-to-play social game is closing its doors because the developers "never quite figured out" how to make it profitable, despite attracting 150 million players. "We spent a long time trying to find a way to make the numbers work," the team wrote in a blog post. "But with the recent shift... View Source

Every color is discounted at Amazon for a limited time. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon is hosting a fantastic lightning sale on every color of the Sony WH-1000XM5 over-ear headphones, offering them for $243 (originally $399) for a limited time. This is one of the biggest price reductions we’ve ever seen. Outside of a February discount at Adorama that briefly sold them for $204.56, we ha... View Source

NASA is scheduled to launch Artemis II this week, sending astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal are joined by Alexander MacDonald, senior associate at the Aerospace Security Project at CSIS. He tells us about NASA's big funding challenges and its economic impact. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In the current RAM crisis, no company is better positioned to not only weather the storm but turn it to its advantage like Apple. It proved that when it released the MacBook Neo in early March. Despite only including 8GB of RAM, the Neo doesn't feel compromised, a testament to the company's silicon and software engineering. For Apple, it may be tempting to treat its latest MacBook as a one-off. Th... View Source

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The new Optics Styles glasses will support an ‘unrestricted’ range of prescriptions. | Image: Meta While Meta has released several versions of its AI glasses over the last few years, today it announced it's released two new styles specifically geared toward those of us with less-than-perfect vision. Dubbed the Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, the new frames come in a rectangular "Blayzer" style and a c... View Source

Activist investor Irenic Capital Management has built a position in social media company Snap Inc. and is pushing for changes to improve financial and operating performance, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

I’m honestly shocked the AirPods Max 2 even exists. After Apple only added a USB-C port and a few new colors to its over-ear headphones in 2024, I thought it had given up on delivering a proper upgrade to its priciest AirPods model. I’m happy to report that wasn’t the case.  The AirPods Max 2 is certainly an updated version of Apple’s headphones, but the company is also catching it up to the... View Source

Meta’s content guidelines for teens are “inspired” by PG-13 movie ratings. | Image: Meta Meta has reached an agreement with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) that will require the platform to "substantially reduce" its reference to the PG-13 rating when describing Instagram's teen accounts. In a press release on Tuesday, a Meta spokesperson says its 13+ content guidelines aren't changing, but i... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. is the latest company to introduce a blood pressure monitoring feature for wearable devices, underscoring how fitness gadgets are increasingly blurring the lines with medical equipment... View Source

As of April 1, Gmail will have been around for 22 years. Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it. We've perhaps had it for longer than most college students have been alive and that's how others get in touch with us. Google is now giving us a chance to move on and change our Gmail address to something more appropriate... View Source

Dating app OkCupid agreed to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived millions of users by sharing their photos with a third-party facial recognition company without their consent. OkCupid and parent company Match Group did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, but instead promised not to make similar alleged misrepresentations in the future. According to the FTC... View Source

Also, an electric bike and transportation startup spun out of Rivian Automotive Inc., has reached a $1 billion valuation in a new funding round, and has struck a partnership with DoorDash Inc. to work on autonomous deliveries... View Source

Amazon announced that it is adding new capabilities for ordering food delivery with its Alexa+ artificial intelligence assistant. Users will be able to place orders using natural language on Alexa+ through the GrubHub or Uber Eats platforms, provided they have an Amazon device with a large screen. First, you'll need to connect an account for those delivery services to use the feature. You can... View Source

We're spending the week documenting and analyzing the first half-century of Apple's existence, from the oft-overlooked creation of QuickTime to the iconic MacBook Air to Apple's veering into antitrust territory. We're also ranking the best Apple products of all time, and it's causing us all to feel many feelings. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast whereve... View Source

SpaceX is eyeing a $1.75 trillion IPO. On today’s Big Take, @EdLudlow and @davidgura discuss the company’s timing, Elon Musk’s trillionaire trajectory and how retail investors can get involved (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After releasing DLSS 4.5's Super Resolution feature earlier this year, NVIDIA has released an update with DLSS 4.5 features designed to boost frame rates on RTX 50 series cards. Those include DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation 6X. With those, NVIDIA is promising the "smoothest path-traced gaming yet" to unlock the potential for high-refresh 4K 240Hz OLED ga... View Source

This is part of our package about Apple's 50th anniversary, read more here. It's a famous story on its way to becoming legendary: Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple in 1985, spent more than a decade in the wilderness, and then returned to Apple in 1997 to save it from bankruptcy and transform it into one of the world's most valuable companies. That's true, so far as it goes, but th... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. tapped U.S. Bancorp to be the issuer for two small business credit cards that the e-commerce platform is relaunching in the coming months... View Source

Shark just introduced a new product called the BlastBoss that's basically a leaf blower rated for both indoor and outdoor use. This means it can actually be used to blow leaves around in the yard, but is also handy for tidying up debris in the house. It offers adjustable airflow up to 190 mph, making it a "versatile solution for the garage, patio, car, inside the home and beyond." I... View Source

SharkNinja has announced a new cleaning tool called the BlastBoss. It looks like a handheld vacuum but functions like a leaf blower with an adjustable air blast that can reach 190 mph. You can use it to clear dead leaves in the fall, but the BlastBoss is designed for both outdoor and indoor use alongside three included attachments. The BlastBoss is available starting today through SharkNinja's onl... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology Inc. and that the two chipmakers plan to collaborate on silicon photonics technology... View Source

We’ve written about the Swiss company Proton’s moves to take on Google and Microsoft with an expanding variety of privacy-focused internet services, and the company is announcing yet another new tool today. Proton Meet, as the name suggests, is a video-calling service that sounds comparable to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and, naturally, Google Meet. As with everything Proton does, Meet is end-to-end enc... View Source

"It ain't about racism. It's about the human condition."... View Source

Belkin makes some of the best zip-up cases for the Nintendo Switch 2. Full stop. The company’s aptly titled Charging Case, which includes a 10,000mAh battery to keep your console charged while it’s protected, is particularly novel, although tough to justify at its usual asking price of $69.99. How about for around $45 instead? Now we’re talking. Right now, you can grab the battery-equipped case fr... View Source

The trend toward pricier electronics is pushing up the price of everything... View Source

SpaceX has lost contact with Starlink satellite 34343 after it suffered an unspecified anomaly on March 29 while it was in orbit, the company has announced on X. The event happened while the satellite was approximately 348 miles above our planet. Since that is a relatively low altitude, SpaceX’s analysis showed that the remains of the satellite pose no risk to the International Space Station or th... View Source

On paper, Super Micro Computer Inc. is the type of company that Wall Street can’t get enough of, with soaring sales, an enviable list of partners like Nvidia Corp. and its placement at the center of the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Screenshots promoting "Instagram Plus" have been spotted by users in the Philippines and Mexico in recent days. According to social media consultant Matt Navarra, a subscription to Instagram Plus includes several Story-focused features not otherwise available to Instagram users. This includes the ability to create multiple audiences for Stories posts, search the list of people who have v... View Source

Steve Jobs with room full of computers, 1984. | Image: Michael L Abramson / Getty Images It's difficult to picture a world without Apple. The company's influence at the heart of technology and culture is so profound that even the era before the iPhone can now seem like a distant memory - and Apple existed more than 30 years before the iPhone. So, on Apple's 50th anniversary, here's a trip down mem... View Source

9fin Ltd., the debt intelligence provider founded by two former investment banking analysts, has raised fresh funds at a $1.3 billion valuation as part of a push to capture a bigger share of the hotly contested market for credit research... View Source

Zhipu reported a much faster-than-expected 60% surge in net losses for 2025, underscoring how China’s AI upstarts continue to spend aggressively on developing artificial intelligence to keep pace with rivals... View Source

AT&T just announced OneConnect, a new service that lets customers sign up for both wireless service and fiber home internet under a single subscription. Pricing starts at $90. This could end up saving some serious bucks, especially for those who are paying around $100 per month for each from separate providers. These plans offer unlimited mobile data, which is great. The home internet speed ca... View Source

Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the moon no sooner than April 1. Why won't this quartet land on the lunar surface?... View Source

Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentiallySome reports suggest that by the end of this decade there could more than 60,000 active satellites in space. Launch by launch, what began with a handful of scientific and military spacecraft has accelerated into a constant flow of objects, publicly and priv... View Source

Whoop Inc., the maker of popular screenless fitness bands, is now valued at $10.1 billion after raising an additional $575 million, a new milestone on its way to an initial public offering... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Wyoming tonight as Earth braces for impact from a speedy coronal mass ejection... View Source

Airbnb Inc. is offering private car pickups in major markets outside the US, the latest move in an ambitious plan to offer hotel-like services in addition to lodgings... View Source

Japanese companies including Mitsubishi Corp., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Toyota Ventures LLC invested in a $147 million Africa-focused venture capital fund, in a sign of growing interest from the Asian nation in the continent’s startups... View Source

Starlink satellites being deployed. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an "anomaly." SpaceX isn't saying exactly what happened, but space-tracking company Leo Labs says it "immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity" of Starlink 34343 after the event. "Latest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or... View Source

The Tokyo Stock Exchange placed 25 companies under supervision in a final step toward a wave of delistings... View Source

Global data-center provider Equinix Inc. plans to build more facilities in South Africa as part of a 7.5 billion-rand ($438 million) plan to capitalize on the continent’s artificial-intelligence boom... View Source

Raspberry Pi Holdings Plc, a British maker of small, low-cost computers, reported a 25% sales rise in 2025 as demand for its products in the US and China outweighed the impacts of the ongoing memory chip shortage... View Source

Cape Town wants to break into a global outsourcing industry dominated by India, but it will require overcoming a vast gap in scale and cost competitiveness... View Source

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If all goes to plan, Artemis II, Nasa’s mission to return humans to the moon, will launch this week. The mission will mark the farthest that humans have travelled from Earth, and the first return to the moon in more than 50 years. It will also pave the way for landing on the moon again as soon as 2028. But given the Apollo missions have already achieved that feat, does going back to the moon still... View Source

China’s factory activity expanded for the first time this year despite higher energy prices and disruptions caused by the escalating conflict in the Middle East... View Source

Astronaut Tim Peake and Guardian journalist Richard Luscombe talk through Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon for 50 yearsThis week, for the first time in 50 years, Nasa is sending people to the moon once more.And though none of the four astronauts of Artemis II will land on the lunar surface, the mission – which will involve flying around the moon – will take humans deeper into space... View Source

UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital has expanded its hunt for overlooked AI beneficiaries in Japan with a stake in seasoning maker Ajinomoto Co., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

As investors brace for a protracted conflict in the Middle East, they’re electing to sell the technology stocks that have been among the market’s biggest winners in recent months... View Source

President Trump threatened further escalation of the US military campaign against Iran in a social media post, as the fifth week of war jolts global markets with little sign of relief. Bloomberg's Laura Davison reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Five years ago, almost no accident and health insurance claims at Ping An Insurance Group ran without humans. Today, nearly 60% are automated, with some settled in just 51 seconds... View Source

NASA’s Lead Electrostatics Scientist, Dr Charles Buhler, claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. ... Read more... View Source

Rec Room, a Roblox-like social gaming platform that lets users create games and experiences for others to play, is shutting down on June 1st. Despite reaching more than 150 million players and creators and, at one point, being valued at $3.5 billion, the company says in a blog post that "we never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business" and that "our costs always e... View Source

As the Big Tech selloff continues, some investors point to historical precedents as signals that this could be a buying opportunity. Denise Chisholm, Fidelity's director of quantitative market strategy, discusses the conditions with Tim Stenovec on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A massive X1.4 solar flare won't endanger NASA's four Artemis 2 astronauts on their way to the moon... View Source

Australia’s online safety regulator is investigating Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok and YouTube for potentially failing to comply with the country’s social media ban for under-16s, in the first formal assessment of Big Tech’s response to the world-first crackdown... View Source

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is underway, so naturally, a lot of the deals are geared toward the season, including plenty of gadgets to help with spring cleaning. We’ve already rounded up a selection of great robot vacuum deals, but they’re just one part of a much broader swath of Verge-approved tools that can make tidying up a little easier. If you’ve been putting off small fixes around the house, no... View Source

A former top aide to President Donald Trump is initiating a $100 million campaign to promote the administration’s pro-artificial intelligence agenda during this year’s midterm elections... View Source