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2 April 2026 Vol 19

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Building an innovation ecosystem for the next century

Megan: And last year, when Michigan’s Governor Whitmer announced this new initiative and your position, she noted the need to…

LIVE Amazon Prime Day 2025: We’re Tracking Deals & Trends All Day

Photograph: Matthew Korfhage I spend a lot of time telling people you can’t speed up cold brew. I’m not wrong,…

Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, made a series of deeply antisemitic remarks in response…

Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more

Also Inc., the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian earlier this year, has raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital, according…

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding…

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats

Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash flooding that hit homes and…

Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month

Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, is stepping down from his role later this month, as announced by the company…

US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers

The U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the arrest of Chinese national Xu Zewei, an alleged prolific contract hacker who carried…

GenAI as a shopping assistant set to explode during Prime Day sales

A new report estimates that AI will be a larger-than-ever part of the online shopping process during Amazon’s Prime Day…

Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B 

French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s…