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23 April 2026 Vol 19

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Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

When we think about the existential threats of new technology, we’re usually thinking about something like the recent negotiations between…

The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste

The prize will go to the quantum computer that can solve real health care problems that conventional “classical” computers are…

FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show

A senior Federal Communications Commission official overseeing ABC-owned California stations privately offered to assist FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s campaign last…

Polymarket continues its partnership spree with a Major League Baseball deal

Prediction platform Polymarket has been on a partnership spree — a trend that continued this week, with a new deal…

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series…

Geothermal startup Fervo catapults itself over the ‘valley of death’

Enhanced geothermal has had a promising few years, nudged forward by data centers’ insatiable demand for electricity. Fervo Energy has…

Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors

Meta on Thursday announced that it’s starting to roll out more advanced AI systems to handle content enforcement as it…

Google introduces a new way for users to sideload Android apps that still protects against scams

After settling its lengthy antitrust battle over the Android app ecosystem earlier this month, Google said Thursday it will make…

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance

Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots. The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The…