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Apple acquires MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-motionvfx/

Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Plugin Company MotionVFX
Apple today acquired MotionVFX, a major developer of plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro. MotionVFX is a Polish...

Ravens don't just follow wolves-– they memorize kill sites across vast distances https://www.sciencealert.com/ravens-dont-just-follow-wolves-they-memorize-kill-sites-across-vast-distances

Ravens Don't Just Follow Wolves – They Memorize Kill Sites Across Vast Distances
The partnership between ravens and wolves goes back to Norse mythology – Odin's birds scouted ahead and led prey to the god's canines, a relationship that provided food for all.

Lebanese government: 107 children were killed by the Israeli attacks so far, 331 children were wounded. https://www.moph.gov.lb/en/Media/view/83171/1/daily-report-on-the-aggression-death-toll-rises-to-850

Daily Report on the Aggression: Death Toll Rises to 850

1 killed, 25 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches latest mass missile, drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/killed-injured-across-ukraine-as.html

U.S. Government Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Michael Flynn Suit (Anna Bower/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/u.s.-government-agrees-to--1.25-million-settlement-in-michael-flynn-suit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p44#a260417p44

Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Microsoft pulls back on bringing Copilot to Windows 11 notifications
Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across the Windows 11 shell has been shelved as the company reevaluates its AI approach across the OS.

Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/16/apple-hits-record-recycled-content/

Apple Hits Record 30% Recycled Content Across All Products in 2025
Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content, alongside a series of other...

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
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Ola's AI smart assistant 'Kruti' goes dark across app platforms
While 'Kruti' was not accessible via its direct website, kruti.ai, which showed a "site not found" error, users accessing it through Olakrutrim.com/kruti saw a message stating the site was under maintenance and would be back shortly.

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/zendesk-acquires-agentic-customer-service-s…

Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought | TechCrunch
Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook (Assaf Gilead/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-palo-alto-networks-to-buy-isr…