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European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/funding-picked-up-ai-led-europe-q1-2026/

AI Drives Europe’s Second Straight Quarter Of Funding Gain As Deal Volume Falls Sharply
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion  in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. The main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of the continent’s total funding for the quarter.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung weltweit: Bundesregierung winkt UN-Cybercrime-Konvention durch

As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.

My man Weizenbaum protecting us from clankers*
*bright led lights on bedroom air filter that are annoying at night

Charlie Kirk said that the indigenous Americans died in the hundreds of millions due to “natural causes”. By that logic his death, too, is merely of natural effect.

I’m shocked I haven’t sold out PyTexas yet! What’s up Austin, I even got a fresh haircut! #Python
https://pretix.eu/pytexas/2026/

PyTexas 2026
April 17 – 19, 2026

Ich fürchte, jeder Kommentar würde im Verfassungsschutzbericht landen.
Erste Ölkonzerne melden sprudelnde Gewinne
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/116403111389468134

"Former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson declared that Wisconsin is now a blue state."
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/04/15/murphys-law-republicans-lose-campaign-cash-game-they-created/

Murphy’s Law: Republicans Lose Campaign Cash Game They Created
Democrats are winning using rules Scott Walker and Republicans passed into law.

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado meets Trump at White House, gifts him her Nobel Peace Prize medal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/venezuelan-opposition-leader-machado-meets.html

WSJ and Dow Jones plan a new sports vertical that will debut alongside an exclusive, invitation-only sports economy event in New York City this summer (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/dow-jones-wsj-sports-vertical

Dow Jones and WSJ launch new sports vertical with live event
More media companies are leaning into coverage of the business of sports as a way to capitalize on the growing appetite for insights on the topic from business decision-makers.

Riveting: CEO asks ChatGPT to concoct a plan to avoid paying a contractual bonus and his chat logs get used as evidence at trial.
Beautiful.
https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880

Quite a few folks - a couple credible developers - are trying to convince me that 'AI' code generation is great. They fail to realise that my issue isn't whether it's good at writing working ('pretty'?) code. It could be both (it isn't) but that misses my concern: to me conferring power to those without the understanding to the implications of different uses of that power creates a system inevitably prone to disaster - whether smallish now or colossal later. Anoth…

Yes. GOOD.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/ice-detention-minnesota-investigation-false-arrest

OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/openai-updates-its-agents-sdk…

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents | TechCrunch
OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Analyse: KI-Modelle auch als Gruppe weniger kreativ als viele Menschen

The German for telephone is “Fernsprechapparat” which translates as “remote talking apparatus”

Brauchen wir in Niedersachsen eine Meldestelle für queerfeindliche Vorfälle?
https://aktion.rnd.de/umfrage/n3ig3?uid=&cck&ref=mastodon.de
Wäre mal toll, würdet ihr eure Meinung da lassen! 🕊️ :boost_requested:

Unterdessen 20 Min auf die S-Bahn wartend. Während CDUCSUSPD Geld Richtung Unternehmen verschieben und alles verrotten lassen.
Danke, Markt. Danke, Liberalismus.

Diverse Jewish cultures
– from the Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) of Azerbaijan, to the mellahs and haras of North Africa, to the shtetls of Eastern Europe
– have been supplanted by an increasingly homogenized and diminished Israeli colonial culture modelled on German “high culture”.
Rich creolized languages such as Ladino, Krymchak, Kayliñña, Judeo-Arabic, Yevanic, Gruzinic, and Yiddish are now endangered or extinguished,
eroded in part by the imposition of German-acce…

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue
Israel bombed Tehran’s Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism’s willingness to treat Jewish life as disposable in the service of its ideological project.

Anthony Pompliano's ProCap Financial launches a fully AI-generated podcast called Best Stocks; an annual ProCap subscription costs $999 to $2,500 (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/anthony-pompliano-procap-financial-ai-generate…

Exclusive: AI-generated podcasts come to Wall Street
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap Financial launches a podcast created by AI.

As a Mexican living in Boston, I can’t confirm or deny, but the grammar is correct.

Piezo Arduino Test Code
#bookmarks

Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (Max Filby/The Columbus Dispatch)
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/c…

Ohio Casino Control Commission fines Kalshi prediction market
Prediction market Kalshi is facing a fine from the Ohio Casino Control Commission for unlicensed sports gaming.

Uber testet Lucid-Robotaxis in San Francisco
Anfang des Jahres stellten Lucid Motors, Nuro und Uber eine Robotaxi-Version des Lucid Gravity vor. Jetzt testen Uber-Beschäftigte das Fahrzeug.
https://www.

The police is an occupying army and we are colonizing ourselves.

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days,
as Trump attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.

The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircra…

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.

An internal BBC survey: 34% of workers said they had confidence in the executive leadership, down from 46% in 2025; 43% were "excited" about the BBC's future (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-staff-confidence…

BBC Staff Confidence In Leadership Plummets After Trump & Gaza Crises
BBC staff confidence in leadership has taken a significant hit after a string of editorial scandals in 2025, including the bust-up with Donald Trump.

I'm wondering who the people are who plan, design, oversee construction of and finally manage these abominations.
When they get up in the morning, what are they asking themselves? What do they wish for? Who hurt them?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis

How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (Fiona Kelliher/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135898/cyberscammer…

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
MIT Technology Review identified nearly two dozen channels and groups purporting to break major crypto exchanges and name-brand banks.

OpenAI hat mit ChatGPT Translate jetzt einen eigenen Übersetzungsdienst
ChatGPT Translate ist ein separater Übersetzer für mehr als 50 Sprachen. Die KI bietet an verschiedene Zielgruppen angepasste Übersetzungen, etwa für Kinder.

The Climate Action Now app makes it exceptionally easy to take meaningful climate action on your phone in just seconds or minutes.
Most actions you take earn points, and when you’ve earned enough points, we’ll plant a tree on your behalf.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/climate-

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the "black box" that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.

i will find this ASU frat leader leader fella

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/technology/ftc-ad-companies-settlement.html

Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

Giving https://orionbrowser.com (WebKit-based privacy-first/no data collection, supports extensions from Chrome, Firefox and Safari, from Kagi) a spin on my Mac, let's see how it goes!

Lithografie-Systeme: Speicherhersteller machen den meisten ASML-Umsatz aus
ASML erwartet eine anhaltend hohe Nachfrage durch Chiphersteller. Zu den Buchungen schweigt sich die Firma neuerdings jedoch aus.

Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/fina

Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z | TechCrunch
Pillar's investors include a16z, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Crucible Capital and Gallery Ventures.

The small town of Festus, Missouri
— a community made up of just under 14,000 people
— has become a focal point over the growing backlash against
AI data centers entering communities across the country.
Following the approval of a $6 billion data center project,
voters removed four of the eight members of the Festus city council,
as well as started a petition to remove the remaining city council members and the mayor, reports Politico.

Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts
A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project's approval.

Interviews with four early YouTube stars, including MatPat and Miranda Sings, about their success, monetization, changed relationship with YouTube, and more (Maya Salam/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/television/early-yout…

They Were YouTube’s First Stars. Here’s What They Wish They’d Known.
MatPat, Miranda Sings, Grace Helbig and WheezyWaiter hit it big on YouTube long before it became a behemoth. They have thoughts about what it takes to succeed there.

heise | Private Energiewende für Skeptiker: Praxisbericht – Wenn es nur ums Geld geht
Solarmodule und Windräder erhitzen die Gemüter. Mit nüchterner Betrachtung stellen aber selbst Skeptiker fest: Es kann sich lohnen. Eine persönliche Historie.

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

“I was recording when it happened. There was no warning,
One moment I was recording and the next thing I know, I can’t see.
I’m on the floor, screaming in agony.”
18 year old college student
Tucker Collins,
whose damaged eye had to be surgically removed,
has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Donald Trump’s administration,
which faces an avalanche of lawsuits accusing federal agents of unconstitutional use of force
after violent clas…

Teen whose eye was surgically removed after DHS shot him files civil rights complaint: ‘I’m in no way an agitator. I just had my camera’
Tucker Collins seeks $100M in damages after less-lethal munition struck his face and destroyed his eye

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…

Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK | TechCrunch
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Erstes landesweites Verbot für den Bau von Rechenzentren in einem US-Bundesstaat

Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/15/gemini-app-mac/

Google launches native Gemini app for Mac
Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion beyond Android and iOS. This “native desktop experience” is launched...

The French government is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained
Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS.
Ross is now being held at a federal immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
She is among the t…

Objection, which uses AI and experts to evaluate claims in news articles, debuts with funding from Thiel, Srinivasan, others; each claim evaluation costs $2,000 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.

DFB startet eigenen Pay-TV-Sender DFB.TV
Der Deutsche Fußball-Bund (DFB) startet am 22. Mai mit DFB.TV einen eigenen Pay-TV-Sender. Das Angebot soll bestehende TV-Partnerschaften ergänzen.
https://www.

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-a16z-backed-hilbert-raises-28-million

Exclusive: a16z-backed Hilbert raises $28 million
The a16z-backed startup says their tools can fix AI's ROI problem.

House Democrats filed💥 six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday,
accusing the defense security of
“high crimes and misdemeanors”,
in reference to the attack on Iran without congressional authorization
and deadly strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats, among other official acts.
The move comes as the Trump administration faces mounting scrutiny over recent foreign action, particularly the war with Iran.
In Wednesday’s resolution, Ya…

Source: a CNN booker privately said that it was concerned about booking a guest critical of Paramount's WBD acquisition; CNN denies any editorial restrictions (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/cnn-back…

Exclusive: CNN backpedals after booker turns away guest for merger segment
“No one advised any editorial employee at CNN not to pursue this story,” a CNN spokesperson said.

EU-Ausweis-App für Minderjährige: EU-Kommission macht Ernst beim Jugendschutz
Kommissionschefin von der Leyen kündigt eine fertige Lösung zur Altersprüfung an, die anonymes Surfen ermöglichen und Plattformen in die Pflicht nehmen soll.

AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/parasail-raises-32m-to-feed-tokenmaxxing-ai-de…

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant | TechCrunch
Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.

The critical Atlantic current system
appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought
after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic.
Scientists called the new finding “very concerning”
as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ( #AMOC

Family Influencing: Wenn kleine Kinder profilbildend sind
Kinder als Teil der „Creator-Economy“ können problematisch sein, zeigt eine Studie. Die Eltern seien nicht bösartig, es fehle aber das Problembewusstsein.
h…

Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-ar…

Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Backed by $70 million, Artemis is tackling the new reality of faster, cheaper AI-driven attacks.

Bitkom-Bildungskonferenz: Auf Ruinen lässt es sich leichter bauen
Die Bitkom-Bildungskonferenz stieg direkt mit harter Kritik ein und nannte zugleich Lösungen. Die Rechnung wird allerdings nie ohne die vielen Wirte gemacht.

Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.
This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch
for an article describing a “bawdy” drawing he penned — allegedly! — for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Just one day after the story was published, Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito filed suit in Florida alleging
“overwhelming financial and reputational damages to President Trump,
expected to be in the…

Trump's litigation extortion machine
You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/chip

Chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm are all investing in this buzzy self-driving tech startup | TechCrunch
Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D round, which was announced in February, keeps growing.

Luminar: KI-Tools für präzise Retusche und schönes Bokeh
Luminar hat seine KI-gestützte Bildbearbeitung um neue und verbesserte Werkzeuge für die Porträtretusche und möglichst natürliche Hintergrundunschärfe ergänzt.

Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is 🔥proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression,
⚠️ listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.
"And I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration
is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can,
but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine a…

Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration
"One of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore," Vance said.

Digital-Health-Podcast: Zwischen Fortschritt und Frust bei der E-Patientenakte
Warum nutzen viele Versicherte die ePA nicht? Und welche Risiken bringt §25b? Darüber spricht Lucas Auer vom vzbv im Digital-Health-Podcast von heise online.

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization
According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"

Far-right election clerk caught illegally purging voter rolls: report
An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization, Votebeat reported on Tuesday.According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting s...

heise | Autark im Ernstfall: Kurbelgeneratoren als Alternative zum Kurbelradio
Notfallradios informieren bei Stromausfall, doch ihre Kurbeln liefern kaum Energie. Wir testen, ob Kurbelgeneratoren die bessere Alternative sind.

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116411522566817198
Because it presents an obvious threat to the Zionist colonial project, the long and extraordinary history of Jewish anti-Zionism has been suppressed, with its proponents sidelined or ostracized.

Nach Anthropic Mythos: OpenAI kündigt GPT-5.4-Cyber an
OpenAI bringt mit GPT-5.4-Cyber ein eigenes KI-Modell für Cybersicherheit. Wie bei Anthropics Mythos bleibt der Zugang zunächst eingeschränkt.
https://www.

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/apple…

Amazon: Neuer Fire TV Stick HD ist schmaler und schneller
Amazon bringt eine neue Version des Fire TV Sticks auf den Markt, der etwas schlanker ausfallen soll. Zudem wird bald eine neue TV-Oberfläche verteilt.
http…

London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/15/ai-edtech-learning-gi…

Exclusive: AI learning platform Gizmo raises $22M Series A
The London-based company gamifies studying.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Privatsphäre: Bürgerrechtler warnen vor Gesichtserkennung bei Meta Smart Glasses

Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…

Inside Messy, Fast-Growing Mercor, Run By Youngest-Ever Self-Made Billionaires
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.

Digitale Souveränität: Wildberger will weniger Microsoft und Palantir
Digitalminister Wildberger forciert die Unabhängigkeit von US-Tech-Riesen, setzt auf einen „IT-Videoschiedsrichter“ und plant europäische Palantir-Alternative.

Companies that hire young "AI natives" have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nvidia dementiert Übernahmegerüchte
Nvidia wolle sich einen PC-Hersteller einverleiben, heißt es. Die Firma widerspricht jetzt dem Bericht, der die Gerüchte startete.
https://www.heise.de/news/Nvidia-dem…

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350199/

Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut merchant storage costs by 45%
Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein.

Blue Origin gewinnt Sauerstoff aus Regolith
Eine lebensfähige Mondstation muss sich aus Ressourcen vor Ort versorgen. Blue Origin hat ein System entwickelt, das Atemluft aus Mondstaub gewinnt.
https://www.

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/goog…

Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are 'AI wrappers' | TechCrunch
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.

Blackmagic: Neue Kamera bietet immersives Live-Streaming in 3D und 180 Grad
Blackmagic bringt ein Stereokameramodell heraus, das für immersives Live-Streaming optimiert ist. Apple demonstrierte die Technik bereits auf der Vision Pro.

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/397470/x-rolls-out-cashtags

Event-Plattform Eventbrite entlässt einen großen Teil ihrer Mitarbeiter
Bending Spoons entlässt nach der Übernahme von Eventbrite einen Großteil der Belegschaft. Über das Ausmaß schweigt sich der neue Inhaber aus.

Starlink-Konkurrenz: Amazon will Globalstar übernehmen
Amazon übernimmt den Satellitenkommunikationsanbieter Globalstar, der zu 20 Prozent Apple gehört. Damit beschleunigt Amazon seine Leo-Satellitenpläne.
https://ww…

President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Darknet Diaries Deutsch: Fahrraddieben auf der Spur - Teil 2
Im zweiten Teil der Geschichte kommt Bryan mit seinem "Bike Index" einem Händler in Mexiko auf die Spur, der gestohlene Fahrräder im großen Stil verkauft.

Freigabe für Musik-Zitat: EuGH konkretisiert Pastiche-Regelung beim Sampling
Der EuGH wertet Sampling im Dauerstreit zwischen Kraftwerk und Pelham als zulässiges Pastiche, sofern erkennbar ein kreativer Dialog mit dem Original erfolgt.

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over $51M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/andreessen-…

Anthropic: KI-Sicherheitsmodell nur für die USA?
Anthropic bewirbt ein KI-Modell zum Aufspüren von Sicherheitslücken als zu gefährlich für die Öffentlichkeit. Europa bleibt der Zugang verwehrt.
https://www.

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/california-approves-verizon-frontier-merger/

California approves Verizon-Frontier merger, requires DEI commitments
Verizon must deploy fiber to 75,000 locations, build new wireless sites and offer $20 broadband to low-income households.

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy

You Switched to Claude Over Surveillance Fears. Now It Wants Your Passport
Anthropic quietly rolled out government ID and selfie verification for Claude—a first among major AI chatbots, and a peculiar pivot for a company whose privacy stance just drove a record wave of users away from ChatGPT.

Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China snaps up US chip tools via Southeast Asia amid supply chain shift
Imports from Singapore and Malaysia hit record as Chinese players' earnings surge

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)
https://econom…

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.

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…

The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet

SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips
SiFive has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3 years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/china-leads-start…

China Leads Asia’s Startup Funding To Its Highest Level In More Than 3 Years
Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels, with total funding also hitting its highest level in more than three years.