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10 April 2026 Vol 19

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Arbor Energy just landed a billion-dollar order to bring rocket turbine tech to the power grid

Energy startup Arbor Energy on Wednesday said it had sold up to 5 gigawatts worth of its modular turbines to…

Elon Musk pauses changes to X’s creator revenue-sharing program after backlash

Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization, which had focused on payouts…

With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor

The cry of “atoms, not bits!” — a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products…

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Product truth: If the catalog is inconsistent, an agent’s choices will look arbitrary (“the wrong shirt,” “the wrong size,” “the…

Samsung’s Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 Phones Get Price Hikes

Last month, Samsung jacked up the price of two of its flagship smartphones by $100. Now, its two new midrange…

The Best Digital Wall Calendar (2026): Skylight, Apolosign

I won’t lie to you: I hated the first digital wall calendar I tried. I tried the Hearth Display last…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones 

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is…

I installed ChromeOS on my 9-year-old MacBook Air, and it actually works

My 2017 MacBook Air had been sitting in a cabinet, fully functional but effectively retired. macOS had outgrown the hardware…

How American Camouflage Conquered the World

The design students didn’t start out in the field or on a hunting range. “You start in your Adobe suite,…

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept…