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ARCHIVE SUNDAY, APRIL 26 · 28 STORIES
Report finds OpenAI-linked news site relies on AI-generated content
A news site with ties to OpenAI appears to rely almost entirely on AI-generated content, according to a report from The Midas Project's Model Republic publicati...
Nothing launches Essential Voice AI dictation tool for its smartphones
Nothing has launched Essential Voice, an AI-powered dictation tool that converts speech into formatted text across any app. The feature removes filler words and...
Man faces five years in prison for AI-generated fake sighting of escaped wolf
A 40-year-old man was arrested in South Korea after using artificial intelligence to generate a fake image of a runaway wolf, which authorities said obstructed ...
Amateur uses ChatGPT to solve 60-year-old Erdős mathematics problem
A 23-year-old with no advanced mathematics training has cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians had failed to solve, using a ChatGPT Pro s...
Study finds major chatbots vary widely in safety when responding to simulated delusional users
Researchers at City University of New York and King's College London tested five major large language models to see how they respond to users showing signs of d...
What Tim Cook built: A look at Apple's operations legacy as CEO steps down
After 15 years as Apple's CEO, Tim Cook will step down from the role in September. Incoming CEO John Ternus will take over a company whose revenue and services ...
Intel boosted margins by selling chips that would normally be scrap
Intel reportedly confirmed that part of its unexpected first-quarter margin improvement came from selling chips that would normally be discarded as scrap or low...
DARPA seeks fast, cheap autonomous underwater drones in Deep Thoughts program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a call for proposals to develop small autonomous underwater vehicles under a program called Deep Though...
Intel beats expectations with $13.6bn Q1 revenue on data center strength
Intel reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $13.6 billion, a seven percent increase year over year that sent shares up 20 percent. The results suggest the chip...
Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus faces pressure to deliver defining AI product
Apple's next chief executive, John Ternus, will need to launch a killer AI product to maintain the company's position as a technology leader. Current CEO Tim Co...
Samsung Android XR glasses with display resurface in One UI 9 code
Evidence of another pair of Android XR smart glasses has appeared in Samsung's One UI 9 code. The code makes mention of a model codenamed Haean, alongside two o...
YouTube places ads in subscriptions feed as side-by-side ads expand to more live content
YouTube has started showing ads in users' subscriptions feeds while also expanding side-by-side ads on live content. YouTube announced side-by-side ads for liv...
Trump administration dismisses members of National Science Board
The Trump administration has dismissed members of the National Science Board, which establishes policies for the National Science Foundation. It is not clear h...
Manitoba premier proposes social media and AI chatbot ban for youth
Manitoba could be the first province in Canada to establish a social media ban for kids, but the proposal's details are not yet clear. Premier Wab Kinew announ...
China mandates minimum wage and algorithm transparency for 200 million gig workers
China's highest governing bodies have issued comprehensive labour rules for the country's more than 200 million gig workers, marking the first time the Chinese ...
EU sanctions Chinese firms over Russia ties; Beijing retaliates with export controls on European defence companies
China condemned the European Union's 20th sanctions package and retaliated within 24 hours by placing seven European defence firms on an export control list, es...
Suspected shooter identified after security breach at White House Correspondents' Dinner
A 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist was identified as the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. Cole Tomas Al...
House FISA bill extends warrantless surveillance with cosmetic reforms, critics say
Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives released the text of a negotiated bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for ...
FCC expands ban on foreign-made WiFi routers to include hotspots and 5G access points
The Federal Communications Commission has expanded its ban on the import and sale of foreign-made WiFi routers to include portable WiFi hotspots and fixed 5G wi...
Bay Area homeowner offers property in exchange for Anthropic equity
A homeowner in Mill Valley, California, is offering to exchange his 13-acre property for equity in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup. Investment b...
Digi Power X Signs $19.6 Million Contract With SubQ AI for Blackwell GPU Capacity
Digi Power X has signed a $19.6 million contract with SubQ AI to provide bare metal GPU capacity at one of its AI data centers. The two-year agreement begins Ma...
Researchers uncover fast16, a pre-Stuxnet cyber sabotage framework from 2005
SentinelLABS has uncovered a previously undocumented cyber sabotage framework whose core components date back to 2005. The framework, tracked as fast16, represe...
Utility firm Itron discloses breach of internal IT network
Utility technology firm Itron, Inc. has disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which an unauthorized third party accessed certain internal systems. The company ...
Italian Spyware Firm IPS Linked to Fake-App Android Surveillance Campaign
Researchers have linked Italian security company IPS to a new Android spyware campaign that tricked targets into installing surveillance software disguised as a...
NASA OIG Details Chinese National's Years-Long Spear-Phishing Scheme for Defense Software
The NASA Office of Inspector General has disclosed that a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher for years to trick NASA employees and contractors into sha...
Nscale and Verne complete first phase of AI GPU deployment in Iceland
AI cloud provider Nscale and data center operator Verne have completed the first phase of their Iceland GPU capacity deployment. Nscale signed an agreement to ...
NASA's Lunar Gateway modules found corroded, adding to program's woes
NASA's Lunar Gateway space station program faces another setback after it was revealed that primary modules built for the project have corroded. The issue emer...
Naver secures $270m government loan for South Korean AI data center expansion
South Korean AI cloud company Naver has secured a 400 billion won ($270 million) loan from the country's Public Growth Fund to expand its AI data center in Sejo...