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ARCHIVE MONDAY, APRIL 27 · 16 STORIES
Google employees urge Pichai to reject classified military AI use
More than 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that the company block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purpos...
OpenAI reportedly developing smartphone centered on AI agents
OpenAI is developing its own smartphone that would focus on AI agent capabilities, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The device would be powered by custom hard...
AlphaGo creator David Silver raises $1.1 billion for AI superintelligence startup
David Silver, the Google DeepMind researcher behind the AlphaGo program, has founded a new company called Ineffable Intelligence and raised $1.1 billion in seed...
Sereact raises $110 million Series B for AI robotics software
Sereact, the Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company, has raised $110 million in a Series B round led by Headline, the international venture firm with offi...
China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
China's National Development and Reform Commission has formally ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, the agentic AI startup, in a stateme...
Serial entrepreneur outsources daily life to AI assistant in bid to build digital proxy
Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen is attempting to build an AI system that operates as his proxy, granting it broad access to his communications, schedules, and p...
Letterboxd reportedly exploring sale as film platform grows to 26 million users
Letterboxd, the social platform for film enthusiasts, is reportedly looking for a new owner. Semafor reported Sunday that Canadian holding company Tiny, which o...
Microsoft and OpenAI overhaul partnership, ending cloud exclusivity
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a sweeping overhaul of their partnership on Monday, dismantling key exclusivity and revenue-sharing provisions that had bound the...
Europe accelerates push to reduce reliance on U.S. technology
European governments are accelerating efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. technology providers, driven in part by the 2018 CLOUD Act which allows American law en...
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads compromised to steal credentials
Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in the developers' account workfl...
GlassWorm supply chain attack hits OpenVSX with 73 malicious extensions
A new wave of the GlassWorm campaign is targeting the OpenVSX ecosystem with 73 extensions that turn malicious after an update, according to researchers at appl...
ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people, ShinyHunters group claims responsibility
The ShinyHunters extortion group has stolen the personal information of 5.5 million individuals from ADT, according to breach-notification service Have I Been P...
Nearly half of cybersecurity professionals want to quit, survey finds
A global survey of more than 3,600 technology professionals found that cybersecurity specialists are among the least rewarded and most dissatisfied workers in t...
Cyera acquires Israeli AI data-security startup Ryft in estimated $100M-$130M deal
Data security company Cyera announced on Thursday the acquisition of Israeli startup Ryft, which builds automated data access and governance tools for AI enviro...
Pace plans 100MW Texas data center with local development focus
New developer Pace is planning a data center with an initial 100MW of capacity at a site in Glasscock County, Texas. The scheme, dubbed the Lone Star Project, w...
Meta signs deal for space-based solar power to fuel data centers
Meta has signed an agreement with the startup Overview Energy that could see a thousand satellites beam infrared light to solar farms that power data centers at...