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7 April 2026 Vol 19

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There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

Singhal, the OpenAI health lead, notes that the company’s current GPT-5 series of models, which had not yet been released…

Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops

Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of the company’s…

Okta CEO: The next frontier of security is AI agent identity

Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage…

Uber is buying Berlin startup Blacklane to bolster its ‘Elite’ offering

Uber is buying Berlin-based startup Blacklane, which provides on-demand, black-car chauffeur services, as the ride-hail giant expands deeper into luxury…

ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads…

The Download: brainless human clones and the first uterus kept alive outside a body

2 Elon Musk reportedly joined Trump’s call with Modi about the Iran War It remains unclear what Musk was doing during the conversation. (NYT $)  + India…

AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round

Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised…

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales

As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software…

KitchenAid redesigned its iconic mixer so you can set an exact speed

KitchenAid calls its new Artisan Plus Stand Mixer the biggest upgrade to the appliance since 1955. If you’ve ever been…

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of…