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The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II astronauts has successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 8:07PM Eastern time on April 10. It signals the conclusion of Artemis II’s 10-day journey around the moon, which is meant to be a test flight for a future mission that would bring humanity back to the lunar surface. The Orion crew module carrying the mission’s astronauts separated from... View Source

The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked a return to deep space by our species after more than half a... View Source

Cybersecurity CEO Vlad Rikhter, Co-Founder and CEO of Fencer, joined Bloomberg Open Interest to break down the alarming rise of AI-powered threats, from models discovering decades-old vulnerabilities to attacks happening in minutes instead of months. He explains why companies must rethink security entirely as AI accelerates both innovation and cyber warfare, and why defending at machine speed is n... View Source

Private credit isn’t collapsing, it’s cooling off. That's according to Richard Farley, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Farley joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why today’s turbulence is a normal cycle after years of hype, how overinvestment is resetting the market, and why AI could become the next real stress test for lenders. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard was seen as it splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover... View Source

Four astronauts landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday, concluding a historic 10-day mission around the moonArtemis II splashdown – live updatesFull report: Artemis II crew splashes down in Pacific Ocean, ending record-breaking moon flyby Continue reading... View Source

Apple Inc. has hired Uber Technologies Inc.’s head of public policy and government relations for Asia-Pacific as it looks to revamp its supply chains in the region... View Source

There are huge breakthroughs coming in 2026 for space, Tesla technology and AI. SPACE BREAKTHROUGHS Early May SpaceX Starship V3 Flight 12 June SpaceX Flight 13 Orbital Second Half V3 Satellites 10-20 Flights, 400-1000 Satellites $100-200 Per Kg with 10+ booster reuses April 30 FCC Internet Broadband Power will be approved that will enable 1 ... Read more... View Source

The tensions that led Giorgia Meloni to replace Roberto Cingolani at Leonardo SpA built up over time, and had their roots in a mismatch between the Italian prime minister’s control over decisionmaking and her appointee’s independence... View Source

President Donald Trump’s goal of significantly boosting global sales of American AI chips risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staffing attrition and a lack of policy direction at the federal agency that oversees exports of billions of dollars in sensitive US technology... View Source

NASA’s Artemis crew of four astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, capping humanity’s first return to the moon in more than 50 years. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." President Trump pushes Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire, casting a shadow over critical peace talks set for the weekend. New inflation data shows the Iran conflict is already hitting the US economy. And as big banks head into earnings, warnings from Jerome... View Source

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts came home today (April 10), wrapping up an epic mission that broke spaceflight records and set the stage for even more ambitious moonshots to come... View Source

After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home... View Source

The makers of the acclaimed Slay the Princess are funding the next game from the maker of the acclaimed 1000xResist... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses concerns about cyber risks raised by Anthropic’s newest AI model. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting to discuss the threat. Plus, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator discusses deals with Anthropic and Meta as demand for compute shows no sign of slowing. And, after a record breaking tr... View Source

Sick! The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in its most recent job advertisement for air traffic controllers. The administration's annual hiring window opens at 12AM ET on April 17, and considering the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers, it's calling this a period of "supercharged hiring." Rad! The FAA's YouTube video draws parallels between gami... View Source

The Bank of Canada and the country’s major banks and financial firms met Friday to discuss cybersecurity risks raised by Anthropic PBC’s latest artificial intelligence model... View Source

Wall Street banks are starting to test Anthropic PBC’s Mythos model internally as Trump administration officials encourage them to use it to detect vulnerabilities... View Source

Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn't really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the publisher is currently working on, and is reportedly expe... View Source

PJM Interconnection LLC is seeking 15 gigawatts of new power supplies in an emergency proposal to address potential electricity shortages stemming from the boom in artificial intelligence... View Source

Dutch regulators (RDW), which just approved Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands. They have just issued an official statement. Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems. We have thoroughly researched and checked this system, more than a year and a half. ... Read more... View Source

Interactive Brokers, one of the most successful and groundbreaking electronic brokerages for traders, is getting into the predictions space. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Founder and Chairman Thomas Peterffy joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss why he believes prediction markets will be the next big thing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A 20-year-old man was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, The New York Times reports.In a statement shared on X, SFPD wrote that it responded to a request for a fire investigation in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco around 7:12 AM ET / 4:12AM PT. "At the scene, officers learned that an unknown ma... View Source

The Artemis II crew – (from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Pilot Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman – pause for a group photo inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) | NASA via Getty Images The Orion capsule, carrying Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch,... View Source

Blackstone is considering an initial public offering that could raise $2 billion for an acquisition company that will snap up data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Bailey Lipschultz reports on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) saying in January that the number of people in the job in the US has declined by around 6 percent "in the last decade." Now the Trump administration is rolling out a recruiting campaign targeting gamers ahead of the openin... View Source

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to give them an urgent warning: an artificial intelligence tool from Anthropic PBC marks the beginning of a new era of cybersecurity.  The April 7 meeting in Washington was focused on Mythos, a new AI model that Anthropic says is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer syste... View Source

San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San Francisco Standard reports. The incident was caught on surveillance cameras shortly before 7AM ET. Later that morning, someone matching the suspect's description was seen making threats outside OpenAI's Mission Bay offices, where... View Source

A new artificial intelligence lab spun out of Harvard University is in talks with investors to raise about $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter, to pursue a mission that sounds like science fiction: “a world where humans can remember everything.”... View Source

As child social media bans spread across Europe and beyond, Estonia isn't having it. On Friday, the country's education minister said the bans won't "actually solve problems," while warning that the kids will find a way regardless.Although companies like Meta would love for you to believe it’s a fairy tale, social media addiction is associated with tangible negative reperc... View Source

Follow the latest updates as astronauts prepare for fiery re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere after 10-day mission to fly around the moon Artemis II crew to end record-setting mission with splashdownSign up for the Breaking News US emailOn the eve of splashdown day, the Artemis II crew spoke about inspiring the next generation and “working on something big for the good of everyone”.You can catch up on... View Source

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to give them an urgent warning: an artificial intelligence tool from Anthropic PBC marks the beginning of a new era of cybersecurity... View Source

Whoop, the makers of a screen-free fitness tracker of the same name, could soon have some competition. Fitbit teased its take on a Whoop-style band with the help of Steph Curry at the end of March, and based on a trademark filing spotted by Gadgets & Wearables, Garmin appears to be working on its own band that tracks similar health metrics.This new Garmin wearable, called "CIRQA" in the tradem... View Source

Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) and other AI leaders sees the next big AI gains—and the path to AGI—will come from targeted algorithmic breakthroughs in areas like continual learning, memory architectures, world models, reasoning/planning, and hybrid systems. Demis talked in a 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings. Here’s a structured summary drawn from that interview, his other ... Read more... View Source

Thousands of enthusiasts, professionals and curious skywatchers will gather this weekend for the world’s largest and most spectacular astronomy and space expo... View Source

Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-generated Lego videos that have been produced by Iranian content creation group Explosive Media in the weeks since the US and Israel began dropping bombs on the country. In Explosive Media's music vid... View Source

Bloomberg's Aashnah Shah Katie Greifeld on "Bloomberg Real Yield." S&P Global Ratings dropped its credit rating on New Orleans by one notch, as the city confronts one of the worst financial crises in its modern history. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party games and subscriptions. The cloud gaming service will remove previously purchased games on June 10th, 2026, though they'll still be available to play on other platforms through the EA, GOG, or Ubisoft accounts players used when purchasing the title. In line with these changes, Amazon Luna will no lo... View Source

Apple is closing its retail store in Towson, Maryland, the company’s first unionized retail location. Apple says it’s due to declining sales in the mall, while the labor organization representing workers calls it a case of union-busting. Bloomberg’s Josh Eidelson joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft is finally allowing Windows 11 testers to get access to experimental features without having to download a third-party app like ViVeTool. The changes are part of making the Windows Insider Program (WIP) less confusing, with Dev and Canary testing rings simplified into a new Experimental Channel alongside a refresh of the existing Beta Channel. Microsoft has been using a technology called... View Source

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon... View Source

NASA’s Artemis II crew prepares for a splashdown after a historic trip around the moon. Laurie Leshin, former head of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses the risk the astronauts face on their return to Earth and what comes next for the Artemis program. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android and iOS is now rolling out for its enterprise users. Emails that require E2EE in Workspace can be composed and read within the Gmail app, so eligible users won’t need additional apps or portals. The new feature expands Google’s client-side encryption (CSE) offering, a little more than a year after E2EE was introduced to Gm... View Source

A rare long-period comet returns after 170,000 years — here's how to find comet C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS) before sunrise this April, with key dates, viewing tips and the best mornings to look... View Source

Fanttik, like Hoto, is quickly becoming a household name. The tool brand’s cordless wares are quiet, capable, and certainly more stylish than anything you’d find at your local Ace Hardware or neighborhood tool library. The S1 Pro electric screwdriver is a great example of the company’s penchant for attractive design, one you can currently grab on Amazon for an all-time low of $39.99 ($50 off) when... View Source

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is advertising two data center positions in Inner Mongolia, where the company reportedly is relying on banned Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell chips... View Source

Amazon is ending support for third-party integrations on its Luna cloud gaming service. The most immediate changes mean that it's no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna. Amazon will automatically any cancel active subscriptions bought through Luna at the end of customers' next billing cycle. If you have a Ubisoft+ subscription that... View Source

A newly released NASA timelapse reveals the moon crossing the sun as seen from deep space, giving the Artemis 2 crew a rare extended view of totality and the solar corona... View Source

Blackstone Inc. is considering an initial public offering that could raise $2 billion for an acquisition company that will snap up data centers, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

America's Big Tech companies may soon learn that saddling up with Donald Trump doesn't tend to work out in the end. As the president sows chaos and distrust around the globe while taking aim at EU tech regulations, Europe is looking for ways to adopt its own alternatives. The latest example is France, which said it's dropping Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux.On Wednesday, France said (via TechC... View Source

NASA Seen during Artemis II’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, the Moon and Earth align in the same frame, each partially illuminated by the Sun. The Moon’s surface appears in sharp detail in the foreground, while Earth sits much farther away, smaller and softly lit in the background. A faint reflection in the spacecraft window is also visible, subtly overlaying the scene. Though their phases d... View Source

Dr Nigel Fairweather and Philip Clarke on the newly released Nasa photographs showing the far side of the moonThere has been much excitement about the crew of Artemis II seeing the far side of the moon (Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby, 6 April). Let us remember that on 7 October 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 (also known as Lunik 3) photographed the back... View Source

The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early results from using the app on Linux: "On Ubuntu, I found 9 system processes making internet connections over the course of one week. On macOS, we counted more than 100." While the Linux version of Li... View Source

It's been a huge week for CoreWeave. CEO Michael Intrator says they signed a "multibillion-dollar contract" with Anthropic. The companies would not release exact financial terms. CoreWeave also announced a $21 billion dollar deal with Meta to provide computing power. Intrator speaks to Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by Futurism. These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people to lose their money. Bets tend to appear in the "For you" section of Google News, which is supposed to be tailored to a person's particular interests. Futurism notes that the platform actually placed... View Source

Arm CEO Rene Haas says the artificial intelligence boom is not just another tech cycle, but rather something "much bigger" and more far-reaching than anything that came before. In an interview with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie, Haas explains why AI is scaling beyond the PC and mobile eras, driven by surging demand for compute, memory and infrastructure. This interview was recorded on March 23 for "Bl... View Source

A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th. A bipartisan coalition of progressive Democrats and members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus say it's long overdue for reform. But they're up against powerful figu... View Source

Arm CEO Rene Haas warns a proposed wealth tax in California could drive top entrepreneurs out of Silicon Valley. "I don't think it's a good thing if it drives really smart people outside the valley," Haas tells Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie. This interview was recorded on March 23 for "Bloomberg Tech: Europe." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We chat with "For All Mankind" creators Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolbert about season 5's dramatic arc, scientific accuracy, and real-world parallels... View Source

Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonThe songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliantThe scope and ambition of this dark musical by Theo Jamieson and Adam Lenson are boundless. A jagged, time- and space-travelling drama about the emotional wreckage of a mutually destructive relationship, it begins with reports of a young astronau... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. We're back to being ignored, but the company is showing signs of life. It's been nine months since Trump Mobile announced itself, seven months since the company updated any of its social media profiles, and two months since anyone replied to my emails... View Source

In this month's Bloomberg Tech: Europe episode Tom Mackenzie speaks to Arm CEO Rene Haas as the company makes a dramatic pivot. Arm, long known for powering the world’s smartphones, is now betting its future on the cloud, data centres, and the explosive growth of generative AI. He speaks with CEO Rene Haas to discuss Arm’s next chapter, the race for AI dominance, and what it means for the future o... View Source

After its history-making trip around the Moon, NASA's Artemis II mission is set to return to Earth later today. The Orion spacecraft carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen is scheduled to splash down off the coast of San Diego at approximately 8:07PM ET. NASA will stream the landing on YouTube and its NASA+ website, as will Netflix and HBO Max. The o... View Source

Artemis 2 is the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but the cameras onboard are surprisingly down-to-earth. Here's how to get your hands on the gear that has brought us so many stunning shots of space... View Source

Arm's move to sell its own chips has been largely cheered by investors. One of those investors supportive of the plan is Clare Pleydell-Bouverie, Fund Manager at Liontrust. Liontrust's top tech investments include Nvidia, Broadcom and TSMC. She spoke to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie on Bloomberg Tech: Europe. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Not everyone needs a $1,000 soundbar. It’s easy to argue the sonic superiority of those flagship models from Samsung, Sonos and Sony, but for some people a simple boost to their TV speakers can provide a world of difference. As part of its 2026 soundbar lineup, Sony debuted the Bravia Theater Bar 5: a $350 entry-level model that covers the basics and comes with a wireless subwoofer in the box. The... View Source

Earth shines above the lunar horizon in a new Artemis 2 photo... View Source

Whoop is popular among congressional staffers. 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. Last week, our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel messaged me about his new Whoop band, which he'd gotten thanks to a generous year... View Source

Death, taxes, and the gravitationally bound return of the Artemis II mission on Friday evening. These are the only certainties in life. Even if the four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft discovered a serious flaw in their spacecraft today—and to be clear, from recent images reviewed by NASA experts, everything looks just fine—there is no chance of significantly altering the Artemis II missi... View Source

In this episode of "Bloomberg Tech: Europe," Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie explores how Arm - the company behind the chips in most smartphones — is shifting into AI, cloud, and data centers. He sits down with CEO Rene Haas to discuss Arm’s strategy, the race for AI dominance, and what it means for the future of technology. Don’t miss this deep dive into one of tech’s most pivotal moves. "Bloombe... View Source

Cloudflare, the cloud provider that connects millions of sites to the internet, wants to "fix" another digital giant: WordPress. It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that's supposed to address the "core problems that WordPress cannot solve" - and they want to do it by allowing AI agents to take control of your website. Though it's still in early access, EmDash is already causing a... View Source

Parents have long worried that video gaming corrupts their kids’ brains. Now the US government is proclaiming that all is not lost, and that in fact a lucrative career path awaits as an air-traffic controller... View Source

Another day, another subscription price hike, this time for YouTube Premium. Every plan for YouTube’s ad-free tier is going up, and depending on which one you have, you could be paying as much as $4 per month more. As reported by 9to5Google, YouTube has started emailing subscribers about the price changes, rather than announcing them publicly, and some Reddit users have posted screenshots of the e... View Source

Gravitational waves may have provided the first tantalizing evidence of tiny primordial black holes born during the Big Bang, which could account for dark matter... View Source

(April 6, 2026) – Before going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. | Image: NASA As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for the most dramatic and potentially dangerous part of their mission - reentry into Earth's atmosphere - the eyes of the world will be on the Orion capsule and the people inside i... View Source

Leading booster for AI says companies are too focused on an immediate payoff... View Source

Snap's upcoming consumer AR glasses are still set to launch sometime this year, and they'll be powered by a Snapdragon XR chip from Qualcomm, according to an announcement of a "multi-year strategic agreement" between the companies. Snap has been working on smart glasses for a decade, with the first model of its camera-equipped Spectacles glasses launching in 2016. But the past couple generations,... View Source

Brian Kersmanc at GQG Partners LLC says a decision to empty his funds of tech companies more than a year ago is finally starting to pay off... View Source

Microsoft has rolled out a Notepad update for Windows Insiders that removes the Copilot branding and icon from within the app, Windows Central has reported. The old Copilot menu has been replaced with “writing tools,” but it’s worth noting that the tools are still powered by AI and are pretty much identical to the selection found in the old menu. Microsoft has just replaced the Copilot button with... View Source

Andy Jassy tells shareholders that long-awaited rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink is ‘on the verge’ of going live Business live – latest updatesAmazon has said its long-awaited satellite internet rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink will finally go live in “mid-2026”.The chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a letter to shareholders that the technology company was “on the verge of launching Amazon Leo” and ha... View Source

Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organization permanently. This week, The New Yorker published a deep look at Altman, his time at OpenAI, and the questions about whether he's the right person to be in charge of a technology as important and t... View Source

Anthropic PBC agreed to rent data center capacity from CoreWeave Inc. as part of efforts to handle increasing demand for its artificial intelligence services... View Source

It's splashdown day for NASA's Artemis 2 moon astronauts. Here's what to expect at every stage... View Source

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive in the US, with prices rising by $2 on standard individual accounts and as much as $4 for the family plan. The price hike is already in effect for new accounts, and is rolling out now for existing customers. Premium's Individual plan now costs $15.99 per month, up from $13.99, while the five-person Family plan is $26.99, previously $22.99. Premium Lite, wh... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.36 of the Rocket Report! Thank you for your indulgence of our missing the report last week, as we focused on the launch and progress of the Artemis II mission. And we are so thrilled it has been going smoothly, with brilliant imagery of the far side of the Moon. Of course, arguably the most difficult part of the flight remains ahead of the crew and Orion spacecraft: atmospheri... View Source

Binance Holdings Ltd. said it is offering temporary relocation to employees based in the United Arab Emirates, as the Iran conflict continues to impact countries across the Middle East... View Source

Amazon’s satellite-based internet service, Leo, will enter service by mid-2026, so says company CEO Andy Jassy. Writing in his annual letter, Jassy claimed Leo would offer download speeds of up to 1Gbps, far more than what Starlink presently offers. Sadly, Amazon declined to offer any more details about what that mid-2026 service would look like. But given select partners have already been kicking... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts will return to Earth this evening (April 10) with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Here's where they'll hit the water, and why that spot was chosen... View Source

Gen Z is increasingly disillusioned with AI - just not enough to stop using it. A new Gallup report released this week, based on responses from nearly 1,600 people ages 14 to 29 across the US, suggests the hype is wearing off for the digital-native generation as AI becomes more embedded in school and work. Enthusiasm is falling and resentment is growing, even as many young people feel they still n... View Source

Three days after Bill Ackman pitched a deal for Universal Music Group NV that he estimates values the record label giant at €56 billion ($66 billion), the Dutch company’s stock remains steadfastly below the offer price... View Source

Live coverage of Artemis 2's splashdown begins this evening as four astronauts return from their historic 10-day mission around the moon... View Source

SAP SE has extended the contract of its Chief People Officer Gina Vargiu-Breuer months after internal criticism of her department over what many employees described as a flawed bonus system... View Source

Artemis 2 splashes down on April 10. Here's everything you need to know... View Source

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they’re reversed, lasting damage has already been done... View Source

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital Co. and alternative-asset manager Hillhouse Investment are among key investors planning to buy shares in the Hong Kong listing of Victory Giant Technology Huizhou Co., according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be among the city’s largest maiden share sales this year... View Source

SoftBank Corp. is marketing its debut euro-denominated bond on Friday, with investors focused on risks stemming from its parent company’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence... View Source

Microsoft is starting to remove "unnecessary" Copilot buttons from its Windows 11 apps. In the latest version of the Notepad app for Windows Insiders, Microsoft has removed the Copilot button in favor of a "writing tools" menu. The Copilot button in the Snipping Tool app also no longer appears when you select an area to capture. The change is part of "reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, sta... View Source

Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming... View Source

Chip company Arm is positioning itself for a major shift beyond smartphones, betting big on the rapid growth of cloud computing and data centers. CEO Rene Haas says the company expects this segment to dominate its business in the years ahead. Haas speaks to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie about the lucrative opportunity. This interview was recorded on March 23 for "Bloomberg Tech: Europe." (Source: Bloo... View Source

Arm CEO Rene Haas speaks to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie as the chip company positions itself for a major shift beyond smartphones, betting big on the rapid growth of cloud computing and data centers. This interview was recorded on March 23 for "Bloomberg Tech: Europe." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully c... View Source

China summoned the country’s leading battery makers for a second time in a little over three months, reinforcing a call to restrict capacity expansion and avoid the price wars that have damaged other renewable-energy industries in the past... View Source

It is actually a bit shit on the moon (THE MOON)Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading... View Source

As tensions in the Middle East begin to ease, global investors are turning their attention back to the artificial intelligence trade, funneling fresh funds into Asian tech stocks after weeks of selling... View Source

The four astronauts are set to touch down on Earth and conclude the 10-day mission after completing moon flybyThe number of human beings who have travelled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will grow to 28 on Friday night when Nasa’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II astronauts will glide gently to a Pacific Ocean splashdown beneath three giant parachutes.The scheduled 5.07pm PT land... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. priced yen hybrid bonds targeting retail investors at an initial five-year coupon of 4.97%, marking the highest level for such debt issued by the company... View Source

Hours after the United States charged a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder with illegally smuggling billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, shares of a little-known Shenzhen-based computing company plummeted by the daily limit of 20%... View Source

OpenAI has closed a yawning gap in its ChatGPT subscription pricing with a new $100 per month Pro plan that slots between the $20 per month Plus plan and $200 per month Pro plan. Offering five times more Codex than the $20 option, it appears designed to challenge Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option. "Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across pa... View Source

SpaceX Starlink alone will generate $20 billion in revenue this year, almost doubling the estimated $11.8 billion it made in 2025. SpaceX will also have more launch revenue. Starlink has subscriber growth going from adding 750,000 per month to 1.5 million per month. A fundamental shift in revenue mix, pricing dynamics, and the growing role ... Read more... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 35% increase in quarterly revenue, suggesting global AI chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of war in the Middle East... View Source

A top Chinese battery storage manufacturer said it expects a sharp rise in first-quarter profit as overseas demand surges, a sign the country’s clean tech exporters stand to benefit from energy disruptions caused by the war in Iran... View Source

A mysterious video generation model that swept to the top of global benchmarks was developed by a team under Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., sending ripples across China’s AI industry... View Source

Nico Rosberg, CEO of Rosberg Ventures and former Formula One World Champion, says developments in AI are moving faster than an F1 Race and investors need to be prepared for a bumpy ride. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: Karv Global Partner Amir Handjjani, Causeway Capital Management Fundamental Portfolio Manager Ellen Lee, SoLo Funds Co-Founder & President Rodney Williams, and Morgan Stanley Head of Digital Asset Strategy Amy Oldenburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shares of Texas Pacific Land Corp. tumbled Thursday after the chief executive officer of its largest shareholder died, rattling investors in the Permian Basin landowner that has drawn attention as technology companies seek sites for data centers... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss CoreWeave’s $21 billion deal to provide compute for Meta. Plus, Meta releases a new AI model that is more competitive with rivals. And, Anthropic closes its secondary share sale that leaves some investors without the stakes they wanted. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adam Back, Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream, denied claims that he is the mysterious and anonymous founder of bitcoin after a New York Times investigation tied him to the creation of the currency. Back said that it's 'natural' that people are curious but that since Nakamoto stopped posting on online forums there have been few 'digital breadcrumbs' to point people towards an answer. (Source: Bloom... View Source

As the Artemis II mission enters flight day nine, the crew spoke about inspiring the next generation and 'working on something big for the good of everyone' ahead of their return to earth. The crew, made up of three US astronauts and a Canadian, embarked on humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century. The 10-day flight around the moon and back will mark the second mission of A... View Source

15-Time NBA All-Star Shaquille O'Neal & TM:RW Founder and CEO Nathalie Bernce discuss inovation, 'Dunkman,' and why newness is everything. They joined Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI sued Colorado to block a new state law requiring tech companies to establish safeguards to prevent discrimination by autonomous tools in certain employment decisions, among others... View Source

The next launch of the Blue Origin has been delayed from April 14 to April 16. The rocket sections are still in the Bay and have not been moved out to the launch pad. This is another important Blue Origin launch. It will be the third New Glenn launch. AST Space Mobile is launching BlueBird ... Read more... View Source

An earnings beat by Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. next week may set the stage for a short squeeze, after a surge in the battery maker’s shares on bets tied to soaring energy prices... View Source

1 Min Read JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’ Before Artemis II Launch PIA26742 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’ Before Artemis II Launch JPEG (67.09 MB) Description A container of “lucky peanuts” sits above workstations within the Spac... View Source

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy released the annual shareholder letter. • AWS AI revenue is running above $15 Billion annually • Amazon expects around $200 Billion of 2026 capex mostly tied to AI infra • Project Leo already has 200+ satellites in orbit ahead of launch. • $4 Billion+ is going toward rural delivery expansion while ... Read more... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud division led a 2 billion yuan ($293 million) funding round for ShengShu Technology, bolstering the war chest of a young contender in China’s crowded AI video contest... View Source

1 Min Read Watching the Artemis II Launch From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26743 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching the Artemis II Launch… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching the Artemis II Launch From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (96.19 MB) Description Staff... View Source

New data suggests 13% of Netflix households have watched a podcast on the streaming service... View Source

1 Min Read Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition PIA26744 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching Over the Deep Space… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition JPEG (63.52 MB) Description Blanca Re... View Source

Apple Inc. is closing its retail store in Towson, Maryland — a location that drew national attention in recent years as the center of a rare unionization effort by the iPhone maker’s employees... View Source

Apple is closing three of its retail stores this summer, including its first location to unionize. The tech company said it plans to permanently close Apple Store in Trumbull, CT, Escondito, CA, and Towson, MD. The Apple Store location in Towson, was the first where unionized workers and Apple reached a contract agreement back in 2024. MacRumors published a statement from Apple confirming the... View Source

2 Min Read The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal PIA26745 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Deep Space Network… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal JPEG (66.25 MB) Description The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is on sale in multiple colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is one of the best Android smartwatches you can buy right now, especially if you’re already using a Samsung phone. Right now the 40mm, Bluetooth-enabled version’s on sale for $289.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung, which is its second-best price this year and o... 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 Rockefeller Global Family Office’s Angela Mwanza, Stifel’s Tore Svanberg, Rockefeller International’s Ruchir Sharma, Citi Research’s Rob Rowe, Council on Foreign Relations’ Shannon O’Neil, RBC Capital Markets’ Carrie Freestone... View Source

Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) will launch mid-2026, according to Andy Jassy. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO dropped the news in his annual letter to shareholders. The company says Leo will support download speeds up to 1 Gbps. By comparison, Starlink’s download speeds typically range between 45 and 280 Mbps.Jassy didn't specify whether the mid-2026 launch date will include consumer availabili... View Source

WindShaper A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation... View Source

Elon Musk says that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model has 1 trillion parameters and Claude Opus has 5 trillion parameters. XAI’s Grok 4.20, which has 0.5 trillion parameters and there are seven larger models being trained at XAI. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter ... Read more... View Source

Astronauts prepare for re-entry several miles off coast of southern California after 10-day lunar fly-by missionThe crew of Artemis II is set to return to earth on Friday following its historic 10-day lunar flyby mission, and Nasa leaders have described the precise logistics needed to get them home.The return will see the Orion capsule traveling at nearly 24,000mph before making a final splashdown... View Source

OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription that costs $100 per month. The new Pro tier offers "5x more" usage of its Codex coding tool than the $20 per month Plus subscription and "is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions," OpenAI says. The company is introducing the new tier as it tries to win over users from Anthropic and its popular Claude Code tool. ChatGPT's $100... View Source

Thoma Bravo LLC-backed RealPage Inc. delivered slightly improved revenue and earnings at the end of last year, just as software businesses are looking to navigate both opportunities and challenges from artificial intelligence... View Source

Indie game studio Coldblood announced today that its debut project Neverway has been given a release window of October 2026. Billed as "nightmarish life-sim RPG," this is going right to the top of my spooky season game queue. It has a cozy-sounding premise, with protagonist Fiona starting a new life on an island, but things take a surreal turn when she becomes the immortal herald for a d... View Source

Windshaper Windshaper fan array for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.NASA/John Melton A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’... View Source

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a statement on Thursday, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI's data and technology are "falling into the hands of America's enemies, such as the Chinese Communist Party." Uthmeier also says that OpenAI's ChatGPT has been "link... View Source

Amy Sullivan, the newly appointed president of Bed Bath & Beyond, said that the company is trying to be the 'everything home platform' as it attempts to rebuild the brand and expand beyond its traditional footprint by acquiring home repair brands. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid is in the works again, this time from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors of Final Destination: Bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo are reviving the project at Columbia Pictures as part of a new first-look deal with Sony, the latest attempt in what's been multiple decades of work to turn the blockbuster stealth g... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dan Florez Listen to this audio excerpt from Dan Florez, test director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. At 1:47 a.m. EST November 16, 2022, as the Artemis I engines ignited, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Dan Florez, NASA test director for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems, watche... View Source

The digital privacy non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation will no longer be posting on X as of Thursday, largely due to a sharp decline in views on the platform over the past several years. In a blog post announcing the departure, EFF's social media and video manager Kenyatta Thomas explained that the non-profit used to get 50 to 100 million impressions per month on X, but that has changed. "L... View Source

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming. They also face a widening legal battle with US states and criticism over alleged user insider trading. Here’s how they got so controversial. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The hit mountain climbing simulation Cairn is getting a series of free DLC drops, under the banner On the Trail. The first will be released this summer and it's called Deep Water. The DLC introduces three new climbing areas and plenty of "fresh challenges." There's also a new avatar, as players can now climb as Aava or the game's original sidekick Marco. As the name sugges... View Source

2 Min Read The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal PIA26746 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Deep Space Network… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal JPEG (62.03 MB) Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio fr... View Source

'We all thought that movie was really uplifting and inspiring.'... View Source

John Deere has agreed to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused the agricultural giant of preventing farmers and mechanics from accessing the materials needed to repair equipment, as reported earlier by Reuters. As part of the proposed settlement, John Deere says it will make repair resources available for a period of 10 years, "on a license or subscription basis."... View Source

The startup is rethinking how to safely roll out more powerful technology... View Source

Thick as Thieves, the magical heist game from a crew of stealth legends at OtherSide Entertainment, is coming to Steam on May 20. OtherSide and publisher Megabit Entertainment announced the release date in a new gameplay trailer during today's Triple-i Initiative showcase (which was packed with cool indie games, as always). OtherSide was founded by Thief and System Shock 2 veteran Paul Neurat... View Source

A stunning snapshot in time. The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way.NASA The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the ga... View Source

OpenAI told investors this week that its early push to dramatically increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic PBC at a moment when its longtime rival is gaining ground and mulling a potential public offering... View Source

You may already know that emulators can run Wii games on a Mac. But one developer has flipped the script. Bryan Keller now has an ancient version of the Mac's operating system running on Nintendo's 2006 game console (via Kottke). Why? Because they said it couldn't be done.The developer first had the idea in 2013 while a sophomore in college. However, they found renewed motivation fi... View Source

1 Min Read Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26747 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching the Artemis II… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (66.13 MB) Description... View Source

If there's one thing I know about Microsoft after covering the company for more than 20 years, it's that it will always respond to a competitive threat. Apple's MacBook Air convinced Microsoft and Intel to launch thin and light laptops with the Ultrabook initiative, the iPad pushed Microsoft to create its own tablet hardware, and the threat of Chromebooks saw Microsoft try to match the security an... View Source

Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan resolved a lawsuit JPMorgan Chase & Co. brought against him and other early investors in Charlie Javice’s student-finance startup, Frank... View Source

Meta is giving users the ability to edit Instagram comments they leave on posts, though only within a 15 minute window after they're posted. The setup is similar to how the social app handles editing messages, an option it first added in 2024, 11 years after direct messaging was introduced to Instagram in 2013.You're only able to edit comments you left with your own account, and the proc... View Source

Starship FCC licenses for Flight 12 and 13 have been modified. Starship Flight 12’s license includes a suborbital first and second stage. Currently, SpaceX is looking at a late April or early May launch for Starship 12. Starship Flight 13’s now says suborbital first stage and ORBITAL second stage. Starship 13 is looking at an ... Read more... View Source

A screenshot from Slay the Princess. | Image: Black Tabby Games Black Tabby Games, the two-person studio behind the hit indie games Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow, is getting into indie publishing. The publishing arm, which was revealed on Thursday, is called Black Tabby Publishing and has already signed deals for two games: Prove You're Human, the next title from 1000xResist developer Suns... View Source

Quantum company Infleqtion is set to launch more of its technology into space over the weekend as demand for ways to navigate without GPS grows. Matt Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion, discusses the company’s quantum clocks and why they offer a superior option to quantum computers, for now. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix has added a heavy hitter in party activities to its gaming lineup. The streamer announced that Jackbox Party Essentials is joining the Netflix Party Games collection. This move makes three of the popular Jackbox group games available for free to Netflix subscribers: Fibbage 4, Quiplash 3 and Drawful 2. Each one supports up to eight players.  Netflix has been refocusing its interactive... View Source

2 Min Read Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26741 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Supporting Artemis II From… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (63.68 MB) Description The Artemis II mission patc... View Source

A crew of tiny worms will spend six months aboard the International Space Station, helping researchers better understand how long-term spaceflight affects human astronauts... View Source

If you make a mistake in an Instagram comment, you can now finally fix it without having to delete the comment and make it again. On Thursday, Instagram announced that users can now edit their comments within 15 minutes of posting them, which should hopefully give you ample time to clean up any errors. You can make as many edits as you like while that 15-minute period is in effect, Meta spokespers... View Source

Amy Oldenburg, head of digital-asset strategy at Morgan Stanley, joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Markets." Morgan Stanley is set to become the first Wall Street bank to launch its own Bitcoin-tracking ETF, a milestone for the digital-asset ecosystem that underscores how deeply the original cryptocurrency has embedded itself in the financial mainstream — even as the market around it has coo... View Source

Developer Klei Entertainment has announced a follow-up to Don't Starve that adds a new sense of depth to the popular survival game. And that's in a literal sense: Don't Starve Elsewhere translates the game's resource gathering and sanity management to a world with three-dimensional terrain at different elevations, a first for the traditionally flat series.Don't Starve Else... View Source

Modular PC maker Framework is hosting a "Next Gen" event on April 21st at 1:30PM ET, and it looks like it might have something to do with Linux. Alongside a newsletter announcing the event, Framework posted a video on Thursday titled "Follow the white penguin." It features a few clear references to Linux, including the iconic penguin, the "I use Arch btw" meme, and a shot cycling through several L... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." A fragile truce in the Gulf as President Trump vows to keep US troops in place ahead of high-stakes Iran talks. Oil surges with Goldman warning Brent could top $100 if the Strait stays shut. And gig tech doubles down as CoreWeave and Meta strike another massive AI deal. And billionaire Thomas Pete... View Source

Windrose was a hit in a recent Steam Next Fest event, with more than 850,000 people checking out the demo. More than 1.5 million people have wishlisted the pirate survival-adventure title on Steam as well. So, it’s safe to say this game has some wind in its sails, and it’ll be arriving very soon. During Thursday’s Triple-i Initiative showcase, developer Windrose Crew revealed that it’s charted a c... View Source

A screenshot from the PC version of Quiplash 3. Netflix's party-focused lineup of TV games just got three excellent new additions: Jackbox's Drawful 2, Fibbage 4, and Quiplash 3, available as the Jackbox Party Essentials pack on the platform. Subscribers can access Jackbox Party Essentials at no additional cost and use their phones as controllers to play. The Jackbox bundle seems like a natural fi... View Source

Prior cyber-espionage campaigns resulted in the theft of sealed records from US courts... View Source

Tesla may be shifting strategy once again. Reuters reported that the company is working on a smaller and less expensive electric SUV. This would be a brand new vehicle rather than a variant of the existing Model 3 or Model Y, according to the publication's sources. The new EV would allegedly be about 14 feet long, shorter than the 15.7-foot Model Y. Reuters didn't have details about whet... View Source

Anthropic Mythos is Anthropic’s newest frontier AI model tier, announced in early April 2026. It will be a step-change in capabilities over their previous top model (Claude Opus 4.6). Mythos is entire higher tier of models that Anthropic says is larger and more intelligent than our Opus models. Why Mythos Is a Big Deal Anthropic ... Read more... View Source

In response to a request from the U.S. government, Planet Labs made a decision not to share photos of Iran as well as the larger conflict region in the Middle East indefinitely... View Source

Google's latest upgrade for Gemini will allow the chatbot to generate interactive 3D models and simulations in response to your questions. With the new feature, you may see options to rotate the AI-generated model, manually adjust sliders on it, or input different values to change the simulation in real-time. When trying out the feature for myself, I asked Gemini to make a simulation of the Moon o... View Source

After months of sluggish returns, Nvidia Corp.’s stock is rallying again and close to breaking out of its narrow trading range, which market technicians see as a bullish signal... View Source

Razer just released the Hammerhead V3 HyperSpeed gaming earbuds, another entry in the recently-crowded field of gaming earbuds. These have been designed for low latency, which is a necessity when playing video games. To that end, the earbuds integrate with Razer's proprietary HyperSpeed 2.4GHz streaming platform, which allows for "gaming-grade lag-free" audio. This works with plenty of devices, in... View Source

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach... View Source

A big indie showcase has just wrapped up, and now I have a lot more games to look forward to. The third iteration of the Triple-I Initiative, an annual showcase for upcoming releases put on by a group of studios, aired on Thursday. It featured some familiar franchises, like an indie-developed Castlevania and a new entry in the Don't Starve series, as well as some impressive new titles. You can wat... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. is tapping the junk bond market after expanding a deal to supply artificial intelligence computing power to Meta Platforms Inc... View Source

Developer Sunset Visitor just revealed its follow-up to the fantastic 1000xResist. It's called Prove You're Human and looks to wade in similar sci-fi waters as the team's first title. Just like 10000xResist, the new game is a narrative adventure set in the far future. Prove You're Human tasks players with convincing an AI product that its not alive, but there's a rub. The... View Source

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here's how to watch it live... View Source

When the team at indie studio Sunset Visitor were wrapping up their critically acclaimed first game, 1000xResist, it wasn't long before they started thinking about what they'd tackle next. According to creative director Remy Siu, the studio's goal is to always find ways to reflect the world around them. So when they were looking at the cultural landscape in 2024, there was one theme they couldn't... View Source

Intel Corp., trying to promote the use of its technology in data centers, said Alphabet Inc.’s Google has committed to using future generations of its Xeon processors and other chips... View Source

A large chunk of Nintendo’s 2026 plans remain a mystery (that is, unless you take the insiders and leakers at their word), but we have been waiting on release dates for a couple of previously announced first-party titles, including Rhythm Heaven Groove, which officially arrives July 2. Seemingly announced first on the Nintendo Today! app before making its way to the company’s various social channe... View Source

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight on April 21-22... View Source

Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointlessZoe Williams speaks for many of us when she notes that the US space mission is pointless (Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to, 7 April). Unfortunately, it is worse than that. With a $100bn budget, the Artemis programme represents a truly spectacular misdirection of hu... View Source

Mastodon is preparing to roll out "Collections" in the next few weeks, a feature that allows you to find and create lists of accounts worth following, according to an announcement on Thursday. Collections, which take inspiration from Bluesky Starter Packs, will come with the ability to add up to 25 accounts to a single list. If you're on a participating server, you'll be able to create a Collectio... View Source

Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild discusses the recent market volatility and resilience despite multiple headwinds including AI disruption, private credit worries and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Guild warns that a slower flow of commodities could lead to a second dip in the stock market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Banana Ball World Tour is coming to Roku. The platform has signed a deal to stream free content from the Banana Ball Championship League. This, of course, includes Savannah Bananas games. If that last paragraph didn't make a lick of sense to you, here's a primer. The Savannah Bananas are a wacky baseball team, playing something called Banana Ball. The team has been called the Harlem Globetrott... View Source

Meta Muse Spark (originally codenamed Avocado) is Meta’s first model from its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). It launched on April 8, 2026 and will be the first of a new Muse family of models. Meta describes it as a natively multimodal reasoning model designed from the ground up for vision + language integration (not ... Read more... View Source

'I’m proof that if you keep dreaming big, you too can be out of this world.'... View Source

It’s tough to find decent gaming laptops under $1,000. However, Best Buy has what I consider to be a good entry-level model for 1080p gaming in Lenovo’s 15.6-inch LOQ laptop, which is selling for $649.99 (usually $959.99) through today, April 9th. Even with its Nvidia’s RTX 4050 (its lowest-tier GPU of the series), the laptop is likely to be performant enough to play many titles at respectable fra... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is considering selling its chips to other companies, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said Thursday, adding that the cloud-computing giant’s in-house silicon unit is on pace to bring in more than $20 billion over the course of a year... View Source

Tesla is supposed to be starting some mass production of Cybercabs in April. There were 60 Tesla Cybercabs in outbound lots in Texas. If Tesla makes an average 40 per day in April then there would be 1000+ Cybercabs in April. I think this is more likely for May... View Source