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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me your Coachella fits, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about restaurant bread and GLP-1s and Lenny Rachitsky and Artemis II fashion, watching the new boy band doc because I will always watch a bo... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Once again, there are some neat new games for you to check out this weekend. We've got a bunch of updates and announcements for upcoming titles to tell you about too.There have been a bunch of solid indie showcases lately (and highlights from another one to tell you about below). If you want to learn about a ton of other gam... View Source

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is poised to lift off for the third time ever on Sunday morning (April 19) — but for the first time with previously flown hardware. Here's how to watch it live... View Source

Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the same lens. Yes, there will be pain in some sectors, but then there will be productivity gains and new sources of demand and new opportunities for labor that we can’t conceive of yet. But could it be... View Source

In this live version of Masters In Business from Future Proof, Barry speaks with Carson Block, Founder and CEO of Muddy Waters Capital. They discuss the importance of fundamentals vs. technicals when it comes to short selling. They also discuss the downsides of the AI boom and what indicators may cause panic. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades... View Source

Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the same lens. Yes, there will be pain in some sectors, but then there will be productivity gains and new sources of demand and new opportunities for labor that we can't conceive of yet. But could it be... View Source

Maybe it really is a threat to work... View Source

Netflix shares tumbled the most in four years after the company gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw and Wedbush Securities Senior VP Alicia Reese discuss the "overhang" of the aborted Warner Bros. Discovery deal and more with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s central bank governor Pan Gongsheng said artificial intelligence is driving a new wave of technological and industrial transformation that brings both opportunities and risks to the global economy... View Source

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, according to reports. The meeting comes amid concerns its artificial intelligence model, Mythos, could increase cybersecurity risks. Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard breaks joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: BoFA Securities Senior US Rates Strategist Meghan Swiber, Neuberger CIO & Global Head of Fixed Income Ashok Bhatia, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Head of Multi Sector Fixed Income Investing Lindsay Rosner, and Corbin Capital Partners Deputy CIO, Credit John Cocke. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new fund, according to people familiar with the discussions. It is the first fresh fundraising under the new leadership of one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas discusses with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Hanoi, in Thai Nguyen province, a massive open-cut mine tears into the landscape. Ringed by dense, green hills, the vast, stepped crater is raw gray and brown. Along its sides, huge trucks creep along, while a murky pool lies stagnant at the bottom... View Source

The US Federal Aviation Administration has brought in Palantir Technologies Inc., Thales SA and Air Space Intelligence Inc. to compete on a new artificial intelligence tool for air traffic management, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix's lackluster forecast for the second quarter and co-founder Reed Hastings stepping down after 29 years at the company. Plus, the US government plans to make a version of Anthropic's Mythos model available to major federal agencies to tackle cyber risks despite the company's ongoing legal feud with the Pentagon. And, Sequoia Capital raises $7... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator, filed publicly for an initial public offering months after withdrawing a previous attempt to list... 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 BNY Wealth’s Sinead Colton Grant, BlackRock’s Nick Nefouse, Comscore’s Paul Dergarabedian, Former US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, Permanent Portfolio’s Michael Cuggino, Veda Partners’ Henrietta Treyz, Miller Tabak’... View Source

OpenAI’s head of science initiatives and the leader for its Sora AI video team are both leaving the company, adding to a recent string of departures while the company reorganizes its sprawling product portfolio... View Source

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it looks like that tradition will now extend to video game adaptations about the fictional spy. IO Interactive has announced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and performed the theme for 007 First Light, the developer's playable James Bond origin story... View Source

The new moon is the perfect time to spot faint constellations, galaxies and a quartet of planets in the dawn sky... View Source

Speculation the Iran war is poised to end sent risky assets surging anew, extending a month-long rally that’s lifted the S&P 500 Index to a succession of records, added around $12,000 to the price of Bitcoin and pushed up credit and gold. Olaolu Aganga, Citi Wealth Head of Portfolio Construction and Analytics joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two different ways to tell the same story... View Source

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp & Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Alex Rampell discuss how Rillet helps firms optimize their finances and accounting using AI. They talk with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you're curious to get a big picture view of how the second of a planned five Moon missions was pulled off, PBS has a new documentary you'll want to watch. The hour-long Return to the Moon was produced for PBS' NOVA and aired on TV on April 15, but you can view the ep... View Source

Artistic rendering of the MDA Space CHORUS-C (right), RADARSAT-2 (centre), and CHORUS -X (left) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation constellation in orbit above Earth. NASA/CSDA NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) established the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing the agency’s Earth science research a... View Source

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company moves to focus more on coding and enterprise use. As part of a note Peebles posted on... View Source

Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang discusses the current AI landscape, why software is the ‘next piece to comeback,’ and the possibility of a SpaceX-Tesla merger. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It's now expanding the service to "select m... View Source

Bloomberg's Erin Hudson joins Katie Greifeld on "Bloomberg Real Yield." Florida’s Broward County Public Schools is currently facing a budget shortfall of $100 million, the largest deficit caused by annual student enrollment declines. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The specter of price hikes caused by the current AI-driven demand for memory and storage appears to have convinced a fair share of people to buy a new computer. According to data analyzed by Counterpoint Research, global PC shipments grew around 3.2 percent year-over-year in Q1 2026, "driven by pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level" and Microsoft forci... View Source

Business deals with Intel, Samsung and TSMC will boost Tesla and XAI supply and demand challenges. How will Terafab and Teralab fit into the plan. Accredited Investors can sign up for educational discussion and Q&A with Brian Wang https://forms.gle/sdDwj852Fnfxkkan8... View Source

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. Anthropic's relationship with the Pentagon sou... View Source

The venture capital market posted a record-shattering $267 billion the first quarter of 2026. But the data shows the landscape is almost entirely consumed by the AI race. Kyle Stanford, director of venture capital research at PitchBook, discusses the firm’s latest report with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Walt Disney Co. is partnering with movie theater chains on a new large-format screen certification that will roll out in time for the release of Avengers: Doomsday in December... View Source

Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in a funding round at a valuation of more than $50 billion, not including the investment, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

art002e013365 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator “Rise,” inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026, the crew exi... View Source

With ‘Last Flag,’ lifelong gamers Dan and Mac Reynolds are trying to enter an overcrowded market... View Source

The size of waves on alien worlds will depend as much on the characteristics of the liquid as well as the gravity... View Source

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS's new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles get? Will Donald Trump be impeached? Users can wager on all of that and, on some platforms, more gruesome and violent outcomes in the real world. The rapid rise and expansion of Polymarket and Kalshi h... View Source

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei is scheduled to meet on Friday with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration seeks wider US government access to the company’s powerful new Mythos artificial intelligence model... View Source

I kind of wish it just took pictures. I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously appealing, I'm not exactly sure what it is. I mean, I know what it is. I... View Source

The crew of Artemis II spoke with the media on Thursday, six days after returning to Earth following their mission around the Moon. After a news conference, the astronauts gave a handful of interviews, and Ars was able to speak with Orion's pilot, Victor Glover. Glover and Ars first connected nearly a decade ago as part of our homage to Apollo, The Greatest Leap. Glover now stands at the vanguard... View Source

,Among them, is a new tool called Concert Kit that could help bands and artists fight back against ticket scalping bots. The new feature relies on the revamped World ID, the orb-based verification system that scans users eyeballs and faces to create a "proof of human" signature that lives on users' mobile devices. "It's basically like a little human passport for the i... View Source

NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management opened a new NASA Force website on Friday, April 17, 2026.Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched the NASA Force website on Friday, opening applications for roles aimed at recruiting the nation’s top engineers and technologists to support America’s air and space program... View Source

Perfect Lovers II | Photo: Nik Massey Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal hardware, and these used electronic components, each one possesses a humanlike presence. Slow Burn is made from an artificial orchid, a neck massager, bits... View Source

Alcoa Corp. is in advanced talks to sell a former smelter site in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG as part of its plans to dispose of its dormant assets... View Source

Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has published an AI disclosure that says as of this month, the Playdate Catalog “will no longer accept titles that use ‘Generative AI’ for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.” Panic does allow for developers to use AI assistance for coding, but also says that “we will flag any title a... View Source

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a test last year, Dairy Queen is widely launching the tech built by Presto, an AI company that alr... View Source

India’s major financial technology firms are pushing Anthropic PBC to give them early access to Mythos, the artificial intelligence model that has sparked global fears about a new era of cyberattacks... View Source

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center. The timing is still being worked out, but the space agency says this won't happen until at least 2028. This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European ag... View Source

CSDA Menu CSDA Commercial Data Commercial Datasets Commercial Satellite Data Explorer Satellite Data Evaluation CSDA Vendors Airbus BlackSky Capella Space GeoOptics GHGSat ICEYE Vantor Planet PlanetiQ Polar Geospatial Center Satellogic Spire Teledyne Brown Engineering Tomorrow.io Umbra Program Activities Pilot Research Projects FAQs News Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisit... View Source

How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?... View Source

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget nerd — then you can probably think of more worthwhile ways to spend $1,000 than on a phone. Budget phones to the rescue. These devices... View Source

Investors are getting picky, and ETFs reveal exactly where the money is going. Seana Smith, Senior Investment Strategist at Global X, joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down why AI still dominates, how defense stocks are surging on global tensions, and why only a handful of companies will truly win the AI race. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a little more than a month after that release, Anthropic has announced Claude Design, a new research preview that allows subscribers to use Claude to generate designs, prototypes, slides and more... View Source

The iPhone 17E is the best cheap iPhone, no surprises there. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone launches now expected until next year. That made it the perfect time to go back and reassess The Verge's recommendations for the best budget phones you can... View Source

A Texas man has been charged with attempted murder of Sam Altman after he threw a Molotov cocktail at the tech CEO's home last week. Prosecutors say that the suspect was carrying a document warning that artificial intelligence companies would cause humanity’s “impending extinction.” Sarah Frier joins Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss why the backlash... View Source

The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway station that loops around endlessly. If you notice any anomalies on your current loop, you turn around. If everything is the same, you keep going forward. Each successful guess takes you to a new entrance where the loop recurs, until you reach the end of the labyrinth, Exit 8 its... View Source

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the Sun can send waves through this space, and some of those disturbances can even reach Earth, affecting our power grid. Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen scien... View Source

The latest AirPods Pro $50 off at multiple retailers, which is their second-best price to date. From OLED TVs to smartphones, Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale has slashed prices on all kinds of tech, including a wide range of Apple devices. We’ve rounded up the best deals from the sale here, but one of the most notable is the AirPods Pro 3, which are down to $199.99 ($50 off) at Best Buy, with Amazon and W... View Source

Costs for child care in the US are high and so is demand. So why are so many businesses in the child care industry still struggling to survive? Planet Money co-host Mary Childs and contributor to the podcast, Alex Mayassi, join Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss how common complaints and concerns can be traced to specific economic phenomena or market structure issues. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits, this week Roblox announced a $12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in this case.Following the agreement, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said "this settlement will create a safer environment for our children online, and I hope that it will serve as a bellwether fo... View Source

"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president's post kicked off an internet firestorm for a thousand different reasons, not least because the video in question was misleadingly labeled. The quoted post reads "LI... View Source

Apple Inc. was upgraded to outperform from neutral by BNP Paribas, which said the iPhone maker can use the recent spike in memory prices as a way to increase its share of smartphone market share... View Source

Startup Donut Lab made a splash at the start of the year with some astonishing — and suspicious — claims about its solid state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports an individual has filed a criminal whistleblower complaint against the company over those claims. Until recently, Lauri Peltola was listed as the Chief Commercial Officer at Nordic Nano — the firm reportedly contra... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy. The image was released o... View Source

Hubble images never fail to amaze... View Source

People keep trying to make Peloton more than what it is, when the product itself is enough. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. The camera zooms in on two well-formed cheeks clad in white shorts. These buns... View Source

Analysts expect BAE Systems Plc’s market value to top $100 billion for the first time as the UK defense contractor benefits from increased military spending by the US and Gulf states in the aftermath of the Iran war... View Source

Fast solar wind could spark geomagnetic storms tonight, pushing auroras into mid-latitudes... View Source

The founder of quantum computing startup Xanadu Quantum Technologies Ltd. became a billionaire in a matter of days after Nvidia Corp. threw its weight behind the emerging technology... View Source

TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV. All sizes of the TCL QM8L SQD-Mini LED TV are available now. Meanwhile, both the TCL QM7L SQD-Mini LED TVs and the RM9L RGB-Mini LED TVs are available to pre-order. SQD-Mini LED panels are TCL's latest i... View Source

The heat shield on Artemis 2's Orion capsule appears to have held up incredibly well during its scorching downward trip through Earth's atmosphere, mission commander Reid Wiseman said... View Source

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI, or at least a peak of AI? Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get... View Source

Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East. They were there to meet with some of the world’s most deep-pocketed investors, including Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Abu Dhabi-based MGX... View Source

Fire intensifies: “This is fine.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has come. The Creative Cloud provider's suite of design tools have been considered the industry standard for decades - despite unpopular decisions to fully embrace generative AI and abandon software licenses... View Source

Pelgo says it can provide placement services quicker and cheaper using AI... View Source

So a shoe company turned into an AI company…. That’s it, that’s the joke. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget’s Daniel Cooper about Allbirds’ sudden transformation and what it says about the AI economy. Also, they chat about the Artemis II moon mission, Meta being warned about the dangers of facial recognition (again) and how teens think social media is really shaping them.Subscribe!iTun... View Source

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS changed significantly as it flew by the sun last fall, astronomers have discovered... View Source

Gregory Allen, senior adviser at CSIS Wadhwani AI Center, examines the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos model and how AI is being used by the US military to intensify strikes in the Iran war. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese regulators fined leading food delivery platforms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., PDD Holdings Inc. and Meituan for failing to filter out unqualified merchants... View Source

You’ve probably seen DJI’s stick vlogging cameras everywhere. At trade shows and tech events I’ve attended, it’s often the de facto video camera used by reporters and influencers alike. The Osmo Pocket 3 was easy to use, had sharp focus, potent image stabilization and handled vertical and horizontal video recording with minimal compromises. That was two years ago, so naturally it’s time for an upd... View Source

This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that "No Service" indicator on your phone disappear forever. On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos' massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the first-stage booster that launched and landed on the progr... View Source

Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out... View Source

Edward Yardeni, president at Yardeni Research, runs down the points of optimism he sees for equity investors and what’s bringing back enthusiasm for the tech sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Things are gearing up in the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, as its developers enter the final design phase before the project goes before Congress for funding... View Source

OnlyFans, the platform best known for adult content, is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake to Architect Capital in a deal that would value the British company at more than $3 billion... View Source

Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth elements—thanks to an enormous underwater deposit discovered on a remote island... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out an early version of an artificial intelligence model meant to speed up drug discoveries, joining a field of growing interest for tech companies eager to prove AI can pave the way for more scientific breakthroughs... View Source

Cloud Software Group Inc., formed after a leveraged buyout by Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Investment Management, has released several key earnings figures ahead of schedule amid fears around AI disruption... View Source

Slash Financial recently raised $100 million to expand its hyper-tailored banking services into new global markets and industries. With $300 million in ARR, Slash is using AI agents to automate back-office tasks like document parsing and dispute processing. Co-founder and CEO Victor Cardenas speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A consortium including Bouygues Telecom, Iliad SA and Orange SA has entered exclusive negotiations to buy billionaire Patrick Drahi’s telecom company SFR... View Source

Netflix gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations, sending the shares tumbling in extended trading. The results are the first since Netflix walked away from a contentious battle for control of Warner Bros. in February. The streaming pioneer also announced that Chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the board after 29 years to pursue phila... View Source

Casely has reannounced a recall of its Power Pods 5,000mAh MagSafe E33A charger after dozens of people were injured and one even killed by the defective devices, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) announced. It's recommended that you stop using the devices immediately, dispose of them safely and seek a replacement from the manufacturer.  A year ago, Casely and the USPSC publis... View Source

The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 Freedom will use 20-plus kilowatt fission reactor fueled by High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium and Uranium Dioxide, encased in a Boron Carbide Radiation Shield. This will power a xenon ion drive. Previous nuclear spacecraft designs involved more powerful ... Read more... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Upscale AI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of about $2 billion, according to people with knowledge of the efforts... View Source

Malaysia’s economy expanded at a slower-than-expected pace in the first quarter as the Middle East conflict began to weigh on the nation’s major industries, including manufacturing and services... View Source

A Chinese laser chipmaker surpassed Kweichow Moutai Co. to become the mainland’s highest-priced stock, highlighting a shift in investor appetite toward advanced technology and away from old economy leaders... View Source

Apple Inc.’s marketing executive in charge of the Apple Watch, AirPods, health and smart home initiatives said he’s retiring, marking a changing of the guard for a series of key product lines... View Source

Netflix Inc. gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations, sending the shares tumbling in extended trading... View Source

Jill Wyant, president and CEO of Madison Air, talks about the company’s IPO and the growing opportunity in data center infrastructure, including the buildout of Terafabs. The provider of ventilation and filtration systems raised $2.23 billion. Wyant speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Envision AESC, a major global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

Flow Capital Partners plans to offer its $150 million private credit fund on a Singapore-based blockchain platform by month end, positioning itself among the first Asian managers to tap growing stablecoin liquidity... View Source

The new AI model represents a sharp improvement from prior offerings, according to people who’ve tried it... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Anthropic's updated version of its AI model, Opus 4.7, released just a week after its limited release of Mythos. Plus, Elon Musk is kicking his Terafab plan into high gear, even as skepticism grows from the semiconductor industry. And, TSMC reports a big surge in profit and raises its revenue outlook for 2026, driven by strong demand for AI chips. (S... View Source

Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job... View Source

EagleRock Land LLC filed for an initial public offering as the Permian Basin landowner and management company seeks to expand holdings and attract power generation, data centers and other industrial developments that could benefit from being near energy sources... View Source

Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according to people familiar with the discussions — the first fresh fundraising under Sequoia’s new leadership... View Source

YouTube is making some changes that might affect how you share videos from the mobile app. From the app, you can finally share videos from a specific timestamp, which will make it easier to point someone to a part of a video you might want them to see while you're on your phone. However, this change will replace the Clips feature that lets you make a shareable clip from a video. You'll still be ab... View Source

Manycore Tech Inc. built a billion-dollar valuation in China’s once-sizzling real estate market. Now, the software unicorn is betting on robotics and AI for its second act... View Source

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform says some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The issue appears to have started at 1:42AM ET and was still persisting as of 11AM.According to Bluesky’s status page, three servers were down, including one based in the US East region. The outages app... View Source

Dr. Bea Bakshi, CEO & Co-Founder of C the Signs joins Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss the future of cancer detection and how AI is part of the solution even in the early stages. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Oversight Board — the policy body Meta created to weigh its most impactful moderation rulings — has seen its role within Mark Zuckerberg's empire come into question due to shifting content policy priorities and dwindling investment. The Oversight Board has taken steps to formalize its long-contemplated desire to work with other companies, but Engadget has learned Meta has thus far declined to... View Source

Stop using this recalled wireless power bank immediately. | Image: Casely Casely first recalled over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pods wireless power banks in April 2025 following 51 reports of their lithium-ion batteries "overheating, expanding or catching fire," resulting in six minor burn injuries. Both the company and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) are reannouncing the sam... View Source

SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vesting date for shares awarded to employees to as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, ahead of an IPO targeted to value the company at more than $2 trillion... View Source

The European Commission has proposed new measures for Google aimed at bringing the tech giant's search business into compliance with the Digital Markets Act. In order to allow third-party online search engines to be competitive with Google, the EC has recommended that Google permit those services to access its treasure trove of search engine data. As it stands, the proposal would require Goog... View Source

I was unsure if my parents would notice that the voice on the other end wasn't mine - or that it was mine, sort of, but it wasn't me. The voice said hello, asked my dad how he was doing, and asked again when he didn't respond quickly enough. "What is that, Gaby?" He realized something was wrong almost immediately. I explained I had tried to trick him and it clearly hadn't worked. "It didn't," he s... View Source

Elon Musk’s lieutenants have reached out to chip industry suppliers including Applied Materials Inc., Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Lam Research Corp. for his envisioned Terafab, early steps in an audacious and likely arduous attempt to break into the production of cutting-edge chips.  Staff working for the joint venture between Tesla Inc. and SpaceX have sought price quotes and delivery times for an ar... View Source

Netflix co-founder and current chairman Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming company’s board in June to focus on "his philanthropy and other pursuits," according to a shareholder letter released alongside Netflix's Q1 earnings. Hastings has served as chairman of Netflix's board since 2023, a role he assumed after stepping down as co-CEO and promoting Greg Peters in his place... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts said they gained a deeper understanding of their Orion capsule during their moon mission —and what they learned bodes well for future Artemis flights... View Source

Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings plans to leave the company after nearly 30 years. The news comes as part of Netflix's Q1 2026 earnings results released on Thursday, which says Hastings "will not stand for re-election to our Board when his current term expires at the Annual Meeting in June." After co-founding Netflix in 1997, Hastings served as CEO from 1999 to 2023, when he stepped d... View Source

Ross Gerber, Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management co-founder, president and CEO, says Netflix is in a phenomenal position and just "keeps printing money." Netflix gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations. Gerber speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta is starting to test a long-overdue facelift for Threads on web. The company's head of Threads Connor Hayes showed off a new look for the web version of Threads that finally adds direct messaging and makes it easier to navigate between multiple feeds. The new layout adds a bunch of new shortcuts to the site's left rail, including saved posts, insights, activity, and the ability to mo... View Source

Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 million to NPR. That's roughly seven years' worth of government funding ($11.2m) after Trump and Congress cut funds for public media, but only a fraction of NPR's full annual budget of $300 million. NPR may still cut jobs because the money has strings attached. The money is specifically "t... View Source

David Joyce, Seaport Research Partners senior analyst, says Netflix's full-year forecast reinforces that the company is still a growth stock, despite giving a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Call of Duty movie is still happening, but don't hold your breath for it to hit screens any time soon. Today, the popular FPS' social media revealed that the movie's theatrical release date will be June 30, 2028.  A film adaptation of the game franchise was first revealed last year, and shortly after, we learned that Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg would be serving as the prod... View Source

Artemis 2's groundbreaking space toilet doesn't deserve the bad press it's gotten over the past two weeks, according to mission commander Reid Wiseman... View Source

Google’s “Project Aura” will be its first Android XR glasses, expected later this year. | Image: Google, Xreal Google is reportedly partnering with Gucci to make a pair of AI smart glasses stylish enough people might actually want to wear them. According to Reuters, Gucci parent company Kering is planning to launch the glasses sometime in 2027. Google's first pair of Android XR glasses, "Project A... View Source

Elon Musk’s lieutenants have reached out to chip industry suppliers for his envisioned Terafab, early steps in an audacious and likely arduous attempt to break into the production of cutting-edge chips. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Perplexity has just released Personal Computer. The software, which is available starting today for Mac, builds on the multi-model orchestration capabilities the company debuted with Perplexity Computer at the end of February. Like Claude Cowork (and, as of today, OpenAI Codex too), it's a suite of computer use agents that can work with your files, apps, connectors and the web to complete com... View Source

Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their first test flight in a few weeks (aka Early to mid May) . Both Starship and the Super Heavy Booster have successfully completed the static fire tests and are ready to take to the skies. Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their ... Read more... View Source

Netflix announced on Thursday that it will be launching a redesigned mobile app, which will include a vertical video feed, at the end of April. "This redesign will better reflect our expanding entertainment offering and make it easier for members to engage how and when they want," the company said in its Q1 2026 earnings letter to shareholders. In Thursday's letter, the company said that the lines... View Source

Katherine Bordlemay, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co-Head of Equity Client Portfolio Management, discussed the current equity market environment at all-time highs. She emphasized that equities are benefiting from upward earnings revisions, supported by significant and durable AI investment spending projected to reach $1 trillion over the next three to four years. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Blackmagic Camera is one of the more powerful third-party smartphone camera apps available and it's now even more useful for solo creators. Blackmagic Design just announced that the latest iOS version 3.3 now supports Apple Watch, letting you control the app and monitor video remotely from your wrist. It also includes ATEM camera control so you can use your iPhone as a live studio camera... View Source

There are now 13 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi in Austin. There was a 2 months at the 8-10 unsupervised level. Three were added over the last 10 days. This would suggest about 20 by mid next week. NHTSA has reported no accidents in the Feb-Mid March timeframe. There are hundreds of Cybercabs ready roll into Austin ... Read more... View Source

If you’re struggling to get a full night of rest, a good pair of sleep earbuds can help you tune out unwanted distractions. The Ozlo Sleepbuds are one such option, and they’re currently available for $249 ($100 off) in the run-up to Mother’s Day at Amazon and Ozlo’s online storefront, which is easily the lowest price we’ve seen.  Ozlo Sleepbuds  Where to Buy: $349 $249 at Amazon $349 $249 at Ozlo... View Source

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang... View Source

Britain’s AI minister dinged OpenAI for halting a major data center project in the UK and blaming the decision on the country’s energy costs and regulation... View Source

Last month, following reporting from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI confirmed it was working on a desktop super app that would combine ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent and Atlas web browser into one cohesive experience. OpenAI is not releasing that application today. Instead, it's pushing out a major update to Codex that significantly expands what that software can do. However, the new releas... View Source

I'm a rocket man, stabbin' my way up here alone... View Source

After a jury found that Live Nation-Ticketmaster violated antitrust law on several counts, the company warns in a blog post that the verdict "is not the last word on this matter." The company plans to renew a motion for the judge to issue a ruling against the states, claiming that they did not prove their case as a matter of law. It also awaits the court's decision on a separate motion to strike t... View Source

Pankaj Goel, co-head of technology investment banking at Citi, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." They discuss the rise of AI and the difficulties in the software industry. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While I dabble in other Overwatch modes, I spend the vast majority of my time there in Mystery Heroes, a casual mode in which you load in as a random character and automatically switch to another one when you respawn. It's by far my favorite way to play Overwatch (which I do a lot!), since it helps me switch off and relax. Others play it as a warmup for competitive action. It requires a parti... View Source

An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearly marks it as a member of the mid-range EP family instruments, which currently includes the KO-II and its spinoffs, the Riddim and the Medieval. The name suggests that TE could be getting into the budget guitar and instrument amp space, but the filing reveals very little. All we... View Source

War and an historic energy shock are tough financial stability risks to compete with... View Source

Playdate is getting a third season of curated, surprise games, Panic announced today. We don't know much beyond the fact that Season Three is officially happening, but Panic's Head of Playdate Greg Maletic said in an announcement video that it will be here "in time for the holidays" this year. Considering we had to wait a whole three years for Season Two to come out following Season One's release... View Source

Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19)... View Source

Codex can control apps on your desktop like Tic Tac Toe. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of updates comes as OpenAI's rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, following the stellar successes of Claude Code and OpenAI aggressively... View Source

The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase cybersecurity risk, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

Love 'em or hate 'em, no modern browser is complete without robust tab support, and so too would it seem Google's AI Mode. Starting today, the company is rolling out an update to users in the US that makes the tool better at interacting and understanding tabs. To start, the next time you use AI Mode on Chrome for desktop and click on a link, the chatbot will open a new side-by-... View Source

Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing you to ask follow-up questions about what's on the page. Launched last year, AI Mode is the chatbot-like search feature that lives within a tab on the l... View Source

French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must come up with a cohesive approach to protecting children online as the bloc grapples with how to regulate social networks... View Source

If the real world isn’t grim enough for you, Ukranian developer 4A Games has your back: Metro 2039 has been announced and is scheduled to arrive this winter. And based on the developer’s first look at the title, Metro 2039 looks to be an even darker affair than previous titles in the series. A tall order, but the real-world turmoil that has enveloped 4A Games since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sou... View Source

Fireballs and meteors could be seen anytime the constellation Lyra is above the horizon... View Source

You can use the Neo as it comes out of the box, or enhance your experience with some add-on accessories. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The MacBook Neo is poised to be a top-selling laptop in 2026, thanks in large part to its affordable $599 entry price. Despite launching at a more accessible price point than Apple’s $1,099 (though often discounted) 2026 MacBook Air, the Neo makes s... View Source

Los propios expertos de la empresa de IA advirtieron que Mythos podría vulnerar los sistemas que sustentan gran parte de la computación moderna. Bancos y agencias gubernamentales se apresuran a evaluar la amenaza... View Source

Intel has unveiled its new Core Series 3 chips, the official title for its Wildcat Lake-codenamed series intended for mainstream and value-oriented laptops. Built using the same Intel 18A process as its Core Ultra Series 3 chips, they’re significantly more powerful than the previous generation and promise "exceptional battery life" and "boosted AI-ready performance." Intel says... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science; Jānis Beķeris, chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United States; and Jacob Helberg, under secretary of state for... View Source

It is being reported that xAI will rent tens of thousands of GPUS to AI coding company Cursor. It is about $2.5-18 per hour for GPU rentals. For 10,000 GPUs it would be $15-40 million of rent. For 50,000 GPUs it would be $75 million to $200 million per month. If XAI was renting half ... Read more... View Source

An example image from Google. Google's Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create images based on your personal context. With the feature, you can use prompts like "Design my dream house" or "Create a picture of my desert island essentials" and the phot... View Source

Anthropic's new AI has banks, tech giants and governments scrambling to understand what could change for cybersecurity and the future of the internet. We show why its Mythos model is raising alarms. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Your Google Photos library could soon influence the kind of images you can generate with Gemini. After letting users personalize the AI assistant's responses with data from Gmail, Search and YouTube, Google says it's bringing that same "Personal Intelligence" to Nano Banana 2 to make it easier for users to create personalized images with the AI model.The goal is to have the dat... View Source

Blue Origin New Glenn 3 has a good static fire. They are trying to go for a Saturday or Sunday launch. They will launch the second commercial version of the AST Spacemobile direct to cellphone (DTC) communication satellite. AST Space Mobile needs 40-60 commercial operational and in position satellites to begin intermittent commercial service. ASTS ... Read more... View Source

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way... View Source

The Surface Laptop 7. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is preparing to launch new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models in the coming months. Windows Central reports that the refreshed models will include both Intel and Qualcomm variants, with Microsoft opting for an OLED display option for the Surface Laptop this year. Microsoft is expected to launch new Surface Pro and Laptop models... View Source

Anthropic PBC introduces an updated version of its AI model, Opus 4.7, which the company says is better at software engineering and hard coding. A more advanced AI offering, Mythos, has been in the news since Antrhopic says it’s too dangerous to be released to the general public. Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow reports... View Source

We finally have a real-deal trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, after a short teaser dropped at The Game Awards last year. This is nearly three minutes of fighting, silly dialogue and, of course, Easter eggs from the games. To the latter point, there's a scene of Ken beating up a car like in the bonus stages from Street Fighter II and footage of Ryu powering up one of his famous Ha... View Source

Anthropic has released its most powerful "generally available" model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It's also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it can exhibit more "creativity" when creating slide... View Source

Ben McKenzie, actor, director and producer of the new documentary "Everyone is Lying to You For Money" is tearing into the crypto industry, arguing it thrives on speculation, avoids regulation, and enables massive criminal activity. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest with a warning that as  crypto becomes more embedded in the financial system, the risks could spill over into the real economy, setti... View Source

The open-source library and search engine Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three of the world’s largest music labels $322 million in damages after it claimed to have scraped the entirety of the streaming platform’s library of music. Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive in January for a slightly comical $13 trilli... View Source

Astroscale's 2027 ISSA-J mission will mark the first attempt to inspect multiple spacecraft across different orbits in a single flight... View Source

Woot is making it more affordable to own a frozen drink machine. Ninja’s Slushi that has an 88-ounce container for storing your ice-cold creations is down to $184.99 at Woot, which is a whopping 47 percent off its list price. The Slushi requires no ice, just the liquid of your choosing and a little time for it to transform into a thick, yet pourable slurry that will stay frozen in the machine for... View Source

Nadia Lovell, UBS Global Wealth Head of Global Equity Strategy, mphasized that the market is not simply overlooking these concerns but is confident in managing them. Highlighting that AI spending remains robust, particularly from hyperscale companies with nearly $700 billion in capital expenditures (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The RAM crisis has prompted another company to jack up hardware prices. Meta says it will be increasing the price of Quest headsets on April 19. The Meta Quest 3 will get a $100 hike to $599, while the Quest 3S will be $50 more expensive at $350 (for a version with 128GB of storage) and $450 (256GB). Meta is blaming the increases on the rising costs of RAM, which has skyrocketed in price due... View Source

NASA In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. A section of Orientale Basin is visible along the upper right portion of the lunar disk, its structure subtly revealed under grazing illumination. This lighting enhances contrast across the... View Source

In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the internet. Seeking to prevent kids from accessing porn, other inappropriate content, or social media altogether, laws mandating age-gating have spread rapidly across the globe, reaching the UK, the US, Australia, France, Brazil, and many more countries. The problem comes in with exactly how to... View Source

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton CEO, says companies need to embrace new technology such as artificial intelligence. She also talks about the importance of securing core data, the state of the consumer and oil prices. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance" live in Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy... View Source

The Olto truly rules the bike lane. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge It was at about 36 miles per hour that I decided the Infinite Machine Olto is not a bike. Sure, it has pedals, you don't need a license to ride it in most (but not all!) places in the US, and the folks at Infinite Machine assured me it is allowed in the bike lane. But I've never used the pedals. Why would I? This thing weighs a... View Source

A beloved tech founder was found stabbed in the streets of San Francisco. The city took the blame... View Source

Spotify has a new look today for listeners on tablets. The streaming service’s updated tablet UI now provides adaptive orientation, switching between portrait and landscape layouts rather than simply resizing the interface when changing how the device is held.Spotify's tablet app now sports a collapsible sidebar so listeners can take advantage of their larger screen space when watching a musi... View Source

Moft squeezes even more functionality into its folding MagSafe wallet. | Image: Moft Moft's MagSafe wallets have long been overachievers with folding designs that double as smartphone stands. Its latest creation, the Moft Trackable Tripod Wallet, does even more. It carries forward the same functionality as Moft's original magnetic wallet that unfolds into a miniature tripod, but adds built-in trac... View Source

Gargi Chaudhuri, chief investment and portfolio strategist Americas at BlackRock, says her firm is telling investors to go back to focusing on an AI growth theme and to add inflation protection to their portfolios. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adobe isn't the only company releasing a new AI assistant this week. Ahead of its Create event in Los Angeles today, Canva announced Canva AI 2.0. Building on its existing AI assistant, the company is billing the release as its most significant update since the platform first launched in 2013, and the culmination of years of investment to build its own foundational design models. As you might... View Source

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS is days away from its close pass of the sun during an event known as perihelion... View Source

Canva has overhauled its design and workspace suite as it attempts to become the ultimate centralized hub for AI-powered content creation. The platform announced its Canva AI 2.0 update today, introducing updated tools and new prompt-based editing capabilities that allow users to make or adjust their work by describing what they want to create to Canva's AI assistant in their own words. The update... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. is tapping the US junk-bond market for a second time in a week as the cloud infrastructure firm seizes on strong investor demand... View Source

The Osmo Pocket 4 is better at shooting in low light situations with an improved sensor and new fill light accessory. | Image: DJI Following months of leaks, DJI has announced the fourth version of its handheld stabilized vlogger camera. Unlike the Osmo Pocket 3 that debuted way back in September 2023 with major upgrades like a 1-inch sensor and a larger rotating touchscreen, the new Osmo Pocket 4... View Source

Florida’s Broward County Public Schools is currently facing a budget shortfall of $100 million, the largest deficit caused by annual student enrollment declines... View Source

DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal-camera was a category-defining camera. Two years since its launch, everyone from vloggers to pro film makers continue to upload how-to guides and gushing reviews to YouTube. When the Osmo Pocket 4 landed at the FCC at the end of 2025 (followed by a credible leak), creator forums and Reddit threads started to chatter with excitement. Over the following months the Pocket 4... View Source

"They are truly ready for long duration space flights and lunar habitation."... View Source

Govee has announced an upgraded version of its hanging Curtain Lights Pro that can instead be used nearly anywhere you have access to an outlet or large battery. At $449.99, Govee's new Lightwall is more than twice as expensive as the $199.99 Curtain Lights Pro, but comes with more LEDs in a denser array and a self-standing aluminum frame that can be assembled in 10 to 15 minutes without the need... View Source

The European Union proposed measures to open up key Google data to rival search engines, including artificial intelligence chatbots, as the bloc seeks to rein in the power of the biggest US technology companies... View Source

Anthropic has started rolling out identity verification on Claude “for a few use cases.” The company didn’t list out those use cases in its announcement, but we’ve asked it for details and will update this post when we hear back. Anthropic says you might see a verification prompt upon “accessing certain capabilities,” asking you to verify your identity. You would have to show a valid and physical... View Source

The Meta CEO is training an artificial intelligence assistant to handle some of his duties... View Source

Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform. The judgement comes after the unknown operator of Anna's Archive failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by Spotify, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Gro... View Source

California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future... View Source

San Francisco officials were eager to quash the doom loop narrative and insisted that Bob Lee was killed by someone he knew. But Lee’s friends and family had never heard of his accused murderer, Nima Momeni. ... View Source

A rally in technology stocks fueled a third day of gains for emerging-market equities after an upbeat forecast from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. bolstered confidence in earnings prospects for the sector... View Source