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France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-f…

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

they want to keep you busy, but this ain't bread and games no more

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
Fixes:
• The `kitten.html` shorthands for plain HTMX client-side event handling of a Kitten Page’s default WebSocket lifecycle (`on:connecting`, `on:connect`, and `on:disconnect`) were generating faulty HTMX code (the Alpine.js versions, `@on:connecting`, `@on:connect`, and `@on:disconnect`, were fine). The plain HTMX versions now also generate working code.

• Replaced direct `eval` in a statement in the Kitten Introspection API to improve safet…

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

"10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go"
#Oceans #Environment
https://

10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go
More than 10% of the world’s ocean is now protected to some degree, marking significant progress in global ocean conservation efforts, according to an Apr. 1. annoucement from the U.N. Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). However, this accomplishment comes six years behind schedule, and experts warn that efforts must pick up speed to […]

A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-epstein-speech-puzzle

Anthropic vs. Pentagon: Etappensieg für US-Regierung vor Berufungsgericht
Der Streit über die Einstufung von Anthropic als „Lieferkettenrisiko“ wird jetzt vor Gerichten ausgetragen. Nun hat die KI-Firma dabei eine Niederlage erlitten.

Companies should be required by law to completely open devices when they end support for them
If they don’t, the penalty should be that the CEO has to eat the bricked devices
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/amazon-upsets-book-lovers-by-ending-support-for-old-kindles

Two recent posts from Tetra’s ‘designing for…’ series:
“Designing for people who are blind” by Graeme Coleman
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/04/02/designing-for-people-who-are-blind/
“Designing for people with low vision” by

Russian attacks kill 2, injure 15 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

and I'm all out of yap!

Disinformation works:
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigratio…

USDA secretary’s ‘He is Risen’ Easter email unnerves some staff members

The email was the latest in a string of unprecedented expressions of Christian proselytizing by administration leaders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/09/usda-easter-email/

USDA secretary’s ‘He is Risen’ Easter email unnerves some staff members
The email was the latest in a string of unprecedented expressions of Christian proselytizing by administration leaders.

Genau die Frage, die ich Dienstag beim #NPA155 der @… angesprochen habe, nämlich dass Collien Fernandes Ulmen aktuell offenbar gar keine #Deepfakes vorwirft, aber am Tag d…

Monteiro over at Bluesky “A violent reminder that Gilly & Billy pins are back in stock and look great on your jean jacket, backpack, or lapel if you’re running for office.”
https://www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-amp-billy-enamel-pin-fpbpz-y2d7t

Fucking Finally!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

DHS staff to get back pay starting Friday
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/04/dhs-staff-to-get-back-pay-starting-friday/

DHS staff to get back pay starting Friday
DHS employees are set to receive back pay through April 4 thanks to re-directed funding, but future paychecks likely depend on Congress ending the shutdown.

There are now more battery-electric cars in the Dutch fleet than diesel cars.
https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwerk/2026/14/nederlandse-personenauto-s-stand-1-1-2019-t-m-1-1-2026

Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/snap-gets-closer-to-relea…

Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses after years-long hiatus | TechCrunch
Specs has long been teasing the next version of its augmented reality glasses. A new partnership with Qualcomm promises some movement in that department.

Seeing the state of the world today, one can be envied simply for having a peaceful death.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MohammedTurk/116369562673635543
Folks, this is @…’s brother. I verified him after t…

Xeno Arena: „No Man’s Sky“ bekommt „Pokémon“-Schlachten
Kreaturen sammeln und sich dann mit ihnen duellieren: „No Man’s Sky“ bekommt eine neue Spielmechanik.
https://www.heise.de/news/Xeno-A…

"10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go"
#Oceans #Environment
https://

10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go
More than 10% of the world’s ocean is now protected to some degree, marking significant progress in global ocean conservation efforts, according to an Apr. 1. annoucement from the U.N. Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). However, this accomplishment comes six years behind schedule, and experts warn that efforts must pick up speed to […]

Ukraine says no counteroffensive near Hulyaipole, debunks Russian front-line maps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-no-counteroffensive-near.html

Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinforma…

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

RE: https://chaos.social/@fragdenstaat/116373611309376433
Ich hatte nicht damit gerechnet, dass wirklich die Koalition in Berlin platzt, oder direkt wer zurücktritt (obwohl es dazu eigentlich keine Alternative gibt).
Aber schon, dass es sehr laut w…

Tuesday is a scam

The two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.

Emil Michael, a high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligenceefforts,
made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk’s AI company earlier this year,
according to government ethics records released this month.
The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when he joined the department.
Emil Michael, who is the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering under the …

Apple led global Q1 smartphone shipments for the first time with a 21% market share in Q1 2026; overall smartphone shipments fell due to memory chip shortages (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-shipments-q1-…

the highest level on the corporate ladder has always been the luxury of no longer needing to appear professional

Oh, poor babies. Thank goodness thousands of Brown people aren’t dying or anything.
Get bent. @… https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/11637690…

Uber übernimmt Lieferdienst Getir in der Türkei
Abu Dhabi steigt beim Lieferdienst Getir aus und verkauft an den Beförderungsvermittler Uber. Dem gehört schon ein Konkurrent.
https://www.heis…

Catastrophic CatSalad Alert ⚠️

EU to sanction Georgia’s Kulevi port and Indonesia’s Karimun over Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/eu-to-sanction-georgias-kulevi.html

Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/arts/music/live-nation-ant…

‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reaches Closing Arguments
Thirty-four states accused the concert giant of suffocating competition and driving up ticket prices. The company denies being anything but big.

How about a dozen coffees? That sure must be even better? Right?

sorry!! word salad is all that's on the menu today for you mr. peterson :/

Friend in Bray was looking to move back into the home she was renting in 2022 for €2,100/month.
The landlord quotes her €3,000/month.
I’m shocked: how can he do that when there’s a 2% yearly cap on price increases? So the most he should be able to charge is €2,273.10.
Can you guess the answer?
Did you say because Irish people elected a majority conservative/neoliberal government?
(Apparently the government just removed the 2% cap for new tenancies.¹ Landlords ca…

Deutsche Telekom erhöht DSL-Tarife für Bestandsverträge von vor April 2023
Die Deutsche Telekom hebt Preise an. Betroffen sind DSL-Verträge, die vor April 2023 geschlossen wurden.
https://www.

Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/waymo-…

Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waze users | TechCrunch
Waymo and Waze announced a data-sharing pilot program that will funnel pothole data collected by robotaxis to a free Waze platform designed for cities.

My ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)

⚡️"The US hasn't seen such a leader since Lincoln" – Keith Kellogg on Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/ampquotthe-us-hasnt-seen-such.html

RE: https://mastodon.de/@Columba_Livia/116381346734843143
His soul found a place to rest after Sora AI shut down

Folks: Clippy is annoying
Silicon Valley: LET’S MAKE EVERYTHING CLIPPY!!!!!
#ai

G Pro X2 Superstrike: Logitech veröffentlicht Maus mit induktivem Klick
Logitech bringt mit der G Pro X2 Superstrike eine Gaming-Maus, die ohne mechanische Mausklicks auskommt. Stattdessen erkennt ein induktiver Sensor Eingaben.

HSBC and Standard Chartered obtain the first stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong, beating 34 other applicants; they are expected to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 (Kiuyan Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build "AI co-workers" into all of its analytic platforms (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/cia-ai-intelligence-…

RE: #israel

GoPro unter Druck: Hersteller streicht rund ein Viertel der Stellen
Sinkende Umsätze und steigende Betriebskosten machen GoPro zu schaffen. Rund ein Viertel der Arbeitsplätze soll im Zuge einer Restrukturierung wegfallen.

Die Genossenschaft hinter dem @… :nd_aktuell: hat einen neuen Geschäftsführer! Herzlich Willkommen Gerd Stodiek!👋
Ein Thema, das gerade viele Journalist*innen und Zeitungsleser*innen beschäftigt, ist der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Produktion. Für Stodiek ist es wichtig, dass Journalismus wei…

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116378390202896203
If you were wondering whether the phone you paid hundreds of pounds for is yours, it’s not. It’s still Apple’s and they decide what you can do with it.
That isn’t a tool; it’s a shackle.
A…

Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is "outraged" and exploring legal options (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/09/three-apple-stores-permanentl…

Apple is Permanently Closing Three U.S. Stores in June
Apple today announced it will be permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S. in June, including Apple Trumbull in Trumbull, Connecticut,...

Deutsche Telekom bietet Starlink-Satelliteninternet für Großkunden an
Die Deutsche Telekom kooperiert mit Starlink, um Großkunden und Behörden satellitengestütztes Breitbandinternet als verwalteten Service anzubieten.

Ich möchte mal ein nettes Gespräch mit Andreas Gassen, dem Vorsitzenden der Kassenärztlichen Bundesvereinigung :)

What’s rarer than gold? Humanity, apparently. @… https://doomscroller.social/notes/akwoujpeemt201kq

D (@driusan)
cdnpoli

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html

Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows
A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.

heise | Analyse: Biogas und Biomethan als Zukunft des Heizens
Die Biotreppe verspricht mehr Biomethan und weniger fossiles Gas fürs Heizen. Der Praxisblick zeigt: Die Lücke zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit ist gewaltig.

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above est., suggesting global chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@molytov/116376968214888959
Gee, maybe Signal shouldn’t keep harassing people to turn on notifications and take no for an answer?
Thoughts, @…

Projekte in Gemini: Google integriert „Notebook“-Funktion
Google integriert in Gemini die von NotebookLM bekannten „Notizbücher“. Mit diesen sollen sich Chats und Quellen an einem Ort leichter organisieren lassen.
ht…

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116376758495884715
The one thing the Democrats and Republicans in Gun-Gun Land can agree on is that they sure do love them a good genocide.

AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M annual run rate (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026

This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate
This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate

Astronomie: Mit Abstand ursprünglichster Stern in der Milchstraße entdeckt
Je früher ein Stern im Universum entstanden ist, desto weniger Elemente außer Wasserstoff und Helium enthält er. Nun wurde der bislang ursprünglichste gefunden.

RE: https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116370685155553726
Wait, you’re telling me the company that helped Hitler commit the Holocaust is doing this?
(Red Hat is IBM.)

Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

„Pokémon Champions“ angespielt: Klarer Hit mit klaren Schwächen
Angeschmolzene Schokolade schmeckt trotzdem lecker. Nach dieser Logik ist auch das Free-to-Play-Spiel „Pokémon Champions“ ab dem ersten Bissen ein Erfolg.

Oooooh, guess what just arrived 😍
#BBCMicro

Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/alibaba-leads-300-million-bet-on-ai-vi…

Patreon: Podcaster verdienten 629 Millionen Dollar im vergangenen Jahr
Podcasting ist zum zweiten Mal in Folge die umsatzstärkste Kategorie auf Patreon und legt gegenüber dem Vorjahr wieder deutlich zu.

Most tech news these days appears to be of the “wolf ate a sheep” variety.

Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

KI-Agenten: Wo Vertrauen wichtiger ist als Geschwindigkeit
KI-Agenten sollen den Softwaremarkt revolutionieren. Doch in regulierten Branchen wie Finanzen und Recht setzt man weiterhin auf menschliches Vertrauen.
h…

Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M (Seth Joseph/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethjoseph/20

Why Cleveland Clinic Chose This AI Startup To Rewire Key Healthcare Operations
The challenge for health systems now is finding an AI partner that can scale across use cases. That is the backdrop for Cleveland Clinic’s partnership with Luminai.

Klöckner: Bei Digitalisierung von Estland lernen
Julia Klöckner zu Gast in „E-Estonia“: Die Bundestagspräsidentin schwärmt von der Digitalisierung in Estland – und sieht klare Ansatzpunkte für Deutschland
https://www.

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/trump-white-house-gop-states-ai-rules

Scoop: White House leans on GOP states over AI rules
This behind-the-scenes push puts new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails but don't want to cross the White House in a tough position.

Avalanche Energy entwickelt eine Radionuklidbatterie für das US-Militär
Eigentlich beschäftigt sich Avalanche Energy mit Kernfusion. Für die Darpa soll das Unternehmen eine Batterie entwickeln, die mit radioaktivem Zerfall arbeitet.

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.

Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors (Kelly Tyko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/visa-ai-agent-payments-platform

Visa unveils AI agent payment platform
The platform enables AI agents to make payments across networks.

US-Regierung gegen Ticketmaster: Vorläufige Einigung im Kartellverfahren
Das US-Justizministerium und Live Nation Entertainment einigen sich im Verfahren um illegale Monopolisierung. Aus einigen US-Bundesstaaten kommt Widerspruch.

YouTube launches a Shorts feature to let creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a "live selfie" recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/08/youtube-shorts-ai-avatar/

YouTube Shorts will use AI to make avatars that look and sound like you
YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds likes them for use in Shorts. The feature...

Nothing Phone (3): Playground-Beta mit Vibe-Coding für Essential OS
Nothing hat den Playground für das Phone (3) freigegeben. Damit sollen Nutzer sich per Vibe-Coding eigene Mini-Apps basteln.
https://www.…

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a "research preview", generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/anthropic…

Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents - 9to5Mac
Claude Cowork, available on macOS, is losing the “research preview” label today as Anthropic introduces enterprise capabilities. Separately, Anthropic is...

OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/openai-introduces-1…

OpenAI introduces $100/month Pro plan aimed at Codex users, here's what it includes - 9to5Mac
OpenAI is launching a revamped $100/month ChatGPT subscription aimed at Codex users. Here’s how it compares to OpenAI’s existing plans...

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/x-brings-back-voice-notes-to-x-chat/

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat | TechCrunch
X Chat brings back Voice Notes to DMs and group chats after removing the option during the upgrade.

Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/meta-commits-to-spending-ad…

Meta commits to spending additional $21 billion with CoreWeave as AI costs keep rising
Meta's additional spending commitments with CoreWeave will be deployed from 2027 to 2032.

Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/tubi-is-the-first-strea…

Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.

EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Documents: Amazon is working on "Project Houdini", which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-proj…

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear
Amazon's Project Houdini aims to accelerate AWS data center builds using modular construction, reducing labor hours and speeding up deployment.

An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10 victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest
Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors.

CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable "MaaS" models led to Qwen exec departures (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b39da303-3188-447b-8b65-3dd8dad8b59a

OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-home-attack-openai-san-franis…

Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home
An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/not-on-a-hunch-andy-jassy-defend…

Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09…

Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-posted-nearly-5-billion-loss-last-year-ai-…

SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending
SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said. The loss figure includes xAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence company that SpaceX acquired in February. The net loss, as well as other ...

OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability even for "critical harms," like 100 deaths or $1B damage, if safety reports were published (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-ha…

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/909698/youtube-premium-price-hike-us

YouTube Premium is getting pricier
The YouTube Premium standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US, with family plans up by $4.

Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage (Frank Landymore/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, as controversy over prediction markets gains steam.

Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog