Thursday

23 April 2026 Vol 19

Category: Tech

Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Alphabet declined to answer one of its investors buring questions about Google’s AI deal with Apple on Wednesday’s fourth-quarter earnings…
Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users (MAUs), according to the company’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings. This…
Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Starbase, the company town that Elon Musk’s SpaceX created in South Texas, is forming its own police squad. The city’s…
Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

Sam Altman (X): First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder…
A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest,…
Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who…
From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models A common anti-pattern is to give the model a…
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving…
Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout

Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout

Tinder is turning to a new AI-powered feature, Chemistry, to help it reduce so-called “swipe fatigue,” a growing problem among…