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- The Los Angeles Unified School District's board votes to require screen time limits, making it the first major American school system to do so (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News) [2d]
- Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan; Anthropic says it is "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At) [2d]
- Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios) [2d]
- AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an $80M Series C at a $955M valuation (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [2d]
- Sources: SpaceX has agreed to buy Cursor for $50B+; SpaceX says it is working with Cursor to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI" (New York Times) [2d]
- Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO effective immediately; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety) [2d]
- Source: a handful of unauthorized users in a private Discord channel have been accessing Anthropic's Mythos model since the day the company announced it (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google now offers two research agents: Deep Research, replacing its December preview release, and Deep Research Max, both available via Gemini API paid tiers (The Keyword) [2d]
- Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Adobe announces a $25B stock repurchase program through April 30, 2030; Adobe shares have fallen around 30% so far this year (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) [2d]
- Roblox reaches settlements totaling $35.8M with the AGs of West Virginia, Alabama, and Nevada over child-safety protections (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) [2d]
- An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, "personal AGI", Anthropic's "fear-based marketing" for Mythos, and more (Core Memory) [2d]
- Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale to finance its shift from crypto mining to building AI data centers and leasing them to CoreWeave (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk) [2d]
- Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (Washington Post) [2d]
- Mozilla says its Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) [2d]
- NeoCognition, which wants to build AI agents that self-learn like humans, emerges from stealth with a $40M seed co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [2d]
- ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available globally to ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version for paying subscribers; its knowledge cutoff is December 2025 (Reece Rogers/Wired) [2d]
- OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 comes in Instant and Thinking variants and can generate images of up to 2K resolution and in multiple aspect ratios (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [2d]
- OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Draft IPO prospectus: SpaceX debt grew from $14B in 2024 to $23B in 2025, tied to a $4.5B lease deal with Valor Equity for AI equipment such as chips for xAI (The Information) [2d]
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new "thinking capabilities", allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (Emma Roth/The Verge) [2d]
- How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms (NPR) [2d]
- All-hands: Tim Cook said he's stepping down now to ensure the "best-ever transition," citing strong financials, an "incredible" pipeline, and Ternus' readiness (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Coinbase and Gemini, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [2d]
- Clarifai says it has deleted 3M OkCupid user photos and facial-recognition models trained on them after the US FTC settled with OkCupid over privacy violations (Jody Godoy/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: CISA doesn't have access to Mythos Preview, even as some other government agencies use it; Anthropic says it briefed CISA before Mythos' unveiling (Sam Sabin/Axios) [3d]
- Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training (Reuters) [3d]
- Google's Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu is working to unite its internal AI coding tools under the Antigravity platform, to counter Claude Code and Codex (Julia Love/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase (Yueqi Yang/The Information) [3d]
- Florida AG James Uthmeier issues criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to investigate if ChatGPT's role in planning a mass shooting constitutes criminal liability (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law) [3d]
- The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired) [3d]
- Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from $29.99 to $22.99/month and PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games (Tom Warren/The Verge) [3d]
- Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea (Juro Osawa/The Information) [3d]
- OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday) [3d]
- Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a $24M seed led by Eclipse (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [3d]
- Draft of SpaceX's confidential IPO prospectus: Elon Musk increased his stake in SpaceX last year by purchasing $1.4B of stock from current and former employees (The Information) [3d]
- Australia-based Syenta, which aims to use electrochemical "stamping" to speed up chip manufacturing, raised $26M and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [3d]
- Stripe and Paradigm-backed Tempo launches a "stablecoin advisory" for businesses and is working with DoorDash to let delivery workers get paid in stablecoins (Jack Kubinec/Fortune) [3d]
- YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) [3d]
- Trump says his administration had "some very good talks" with Anthropic during a WH meeting last week and "it's possible" there will be a deal with DOD (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [3d]
- Tim Cook had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better place than it has ever been as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, April 22 (game #1549) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 22 (game #1046) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, April 22 (game #780) [2d]
- 5 tips for using Gemini’s new Notebook feature [2d]
- Home theater fans will be happy the LG G6 OLED TV fixes this overlooked picture issue its predecessors had — but there's a catch [2d]
- 'Not just generating images. It’s thinking' — ChatGPT Images 2.0 could fundamentally change how you make AI images [2d]
- 'Pushpaganda is, at the highest level, a case of social engineering': Experts warn scammers are flooding Google Discover with AI-generated content spreading malicious notifications [2d]
- I tried my best not to love Dali's entry-level bookshelf speakers straight away, and my outright failure proves just how good they are [2d]
- 'The evidence is starting to mount': physicists at the LHC have found a possible 'anomaly' that could unlock 'a new understanding of how the universe works' — and 'charming penguins' may hold the key to whether the Standard Model is out of date [2d]
- 'This is not goodbye' : Tim Cook makes it clear he's not walking away from Apple [2d]
- Iran alleges systematic sabotage of US-made networking infrastructure mid-conflict — hardware shut down and rebooted despite internet blackout [2d]
- I didn't realize how stunning Samsung's S90F OLED TV was until I saw it in person — it's worth every penny, especially with a $1,200 discount [2d]
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 1 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer? [2d]
- Fed up with expensive DDR5? ASRock's new HUDIMM memory is riding to the rescue — but it's not a silver bullet for the RAM crisis [2d]
- '5% utilization is a math fail': Millions of GPUs worth billions are mostly sitting idle, report finds [2d]
- 'HACKED': Hacker defaces Seiko USA website and claims theft of 'entire customer database' – here's what we know [2d]
- The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception [2d]
- 'When it comes to performance, it really is a cut above other mini PCs': You won't want to miss this Geekom A6 mini PC deal for office work and photo editing [2d]
- Adobe wants to help your brand get recognized even when search is getting replaced by AI [2d]
- A new ‘color’ Lidar breakthrough just made 'hands-off' self-driving cars a reality, experts say — Chinese tech will 'significantly enhance' spatial intelligence and reduce the need to 'guess' objects like traffic lights [3d]
- NordVPN wants to end VPN rush-hour slowdowns with 100 Tbps global capacity [3d]
- ‘The best I've ever tested’ — the Oppo Find X9 Ultra takes smartphone photography to new heights [3d]
- Former Obdisian creative officer says not to bet on a Fallout: New Vegas remake, because Bethesda doesn't have 'the engineering know-how' to create it, and may not have the source code [3d]
- Apple after Tim Cook — John Ternus will take the helm at a pivotal moment, with big shoes to fill and huge questions to answer [3d]
- Out of all Spotify's music discovery tools over 20 years, my loyalty still lies with this underrated feature — and it’s not Discover Weekly [3d]
- Score up to 40% off best-selling running & walking shoes on Amazon — Nike, Hoka, Sketchers, Brooks, and more [3d]
- The Asus ROG Xbox Ally falls to a record-low price, but is it worth picking up while the Steam Deck suffers stock shortages? [3d]
- 'There's a whole congregation of that kind of person' — Former The Last of Us dev says Neil Druckmann told him that 'several people' alongside Ellie were immune in the world of the post-apocalyptic game [3d]
- Dolby Atmos is coming to free-to-air TV at last — no internet, no fee, and no next-gen tuner, but still immersive audio [3d]
- 'If AI were to take anyone's job, wouldn't it take Elon Musk's job? The richest guy on Earth?' — Take-Two CEO says AI won't get rid of jobs, but allow artists to do 'higher quality work' instead [3d]
- 'Stop selling or sharing my personal information': Research finds that Big Tech could be tracking you even when you've opted out [3d]
- IPVanish rolls out RAM-only server filter across all apps to make it easier to boost your privacy [3d]
- Dune is the new worldwide music platform aiming to fix Spotify's artist income problem — and the band you love? Probably loves it [3d]
- The 'immersive' DJI Avata 2 just hit a new record-low price — this is your cue to get into FPV drones [3d]
- IKEA’s range of affordable smart home devices just got a handy upgrade — and it’s a big win for Samsung phone and TV users [3d]
- The extinction or the adaptation: how AI will impact SaaS market [3d]
- How to watch Half Man online for free: Stream Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer follow-up from anywhere, release date [3d]
- North Korea's Lazarus makes off with $290M crypto in Kelp DAO heist after siphoning funds using fraudulent transactions [3d]
- I tried Panasonic’s tiny f/2 lens — and it’s just what its full-frame Lumix cameras needed, except for one thing [3d]
- Valve's Steam Controller launch looks imminent as hidden 'unboxing' video is spotted [3d]
- Who is John Ternus really? 5 surprising facts that show Apple's next CEO isn't Tim Cook 2.0 [3d]
- What is the release date for Stranger Things: Tales From 85 on Netflix? [3d]
- Half Man review: Richard Gadd's HBO Max debut is the most uncomfortable TV series I've ever seen — but it's still not a patch on Baby Reindeer [3d]
- Explaining AMD gear modes and why they’re important for intensive workloads [3d]
- '88% Confident 90% Misled': Government & critical infrastructure leaders fundamentally misunderstand the security of the apps they use [3d]
- How to watch Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr online from anywhere — it's *FREE* [3d]
- ‘We must urgently bridge the gap’: Google’s Sergey Brin says Gemini is behind Claude in one important AI field, according to leaked memo [3d]
- The latest Fitbit Air leak gives us colors, a launch date, and a possible price — and I've got my money ready [3d]
- A limited edition Forza Horizon 6 Xbox wireless controller and headset have been officially announced and will launch alongside the upcoming game — here's how to preorder yours [3d]
- NymVPN's Windows users have just gained this long-awaited feature [3d]
- Exclusive: Toy Story 5’s new villain is now a real toy — and LeapFrog’s Lilypad feels perfect [3d]
- My Smartwatch Gives Me Health Anxiety. Experts Explain How to Make It Stop [2d]
- Framework's Latest 13-Inch Laptop Includes Panther Lake Chip, Boosting Battery Life [2d]
- Tim Cook's Legacy: Turning Apple's Tech Chic Gadgets Into Status Symbols [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 22, #576 [2d]
- From AI to iPhone Innovation: The Challenges Facing Apple's New CEO [2d]
- What Is Lyria 3? Everything to Know About Google's AI Music Generator [2d]
- NymVPN Adds Split-Tunneling Feature for Windows Customers [2d]
- YouTube's AI Deepfake Detector Now Lets Any Celebrity Take Down Infringing Videos [2d]
- Mandalorian and Grogu Fans, Set a Course for Burger King [2d]
- OpenClaw AI Agents Begin Gaining Access to VPN Connections [2d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 22, #1768 [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 22, #1046 [2d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 22 #780 [2d]
- ChatGPT Images 2: Why OpenAI Built a New Image Model After Killing Sora [2d]
- Xbox Drops Game Pass Ultimate Price, Brings Bad News for Call of Duty Fans [2d]
- Your iPhone Could Get End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging With iOS 26.5 [2d]
- GIGABYTE's X870E AORUS Elite X3D Is Built to Be the Ultimate AMD Gaming Foundation [2d]
- Apple's New CEO Is a Hardware Guy. That's Actually Good for Apple's AI Plans [2d]
- La Liga Soccer: Stream Real Madrid vs. Alavés Live [2d]
- As a Pro Photographer, I've Loved Using Oppo's Find X9 Ultra [3d]
- Yelp's New AI-Powered Assistant Will Book a Reservation for You [3d]
- Stop Paying for a VPN: Firefox Just Built One Right Into Your Browser [3d]
- Play One of the Best Games of 2025 Right Now on Xbox Game Pass [3d]
- AI Detectors Are Garbage: Here Is How to Spot a Bot Yourself [3d]
- You're Probably Serving White Wine Too Cold and Red Wine Too Warm, According to an Expert [3d]
- The Secret iPhone Trick You Can Use to Track Your Flight in Seconds [3d]
- Dyson Just Launched a Hair Dryer That Fits in Your Carry-On [3d]
- 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2: What Time to Watch Episode 6 on Disney Plus [3d]
- Less Than 40% of Us Recycle Old Tech. Some Are Even Taking a Risky Route, CNET Finds [3d]
- Top 5 Apple Products That Tim Cook Launched [3d]
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