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ARCHIVE TUESDAY, APRIL 28 · 23 STORIES
OpenAI growth concerns trigger selloff in AI infrastructure stocks
A Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI missed internal revenue and user growth targets triggered a broad selloff on Tuesday among companies whose business mod...
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni multimodal model for agentic AI
Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal reasoning model that unifies text, vision, and speech processing in a single architect...
More Than 700 Meta AI Contract Workers in Ireland Face Layoffs
More than 700 workers employed by a Meta contractor in Ireland have been told their jobs are at risk as the company embarks on a new round of layoffs, according...
Google Expands Pentagon Access to AI After Anthropic Refusal
Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense access to its artificial intelligence systems for classified networks, allowing all lawful uses, according to ...
Musk and OpenAI head to trial over AI company's origins
The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI has begun, with both sides set to present evidence over the coming weeks. The case centers on the early days of OpenAI, i...
Accenture rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 743,000 employees in largest enterprise deployment to date
Microsoft is rolling out its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant to all of Accenture's approximately 743,000 employees in what Microsoft has described as the lar...
Investigation finds news site tied to OpenAI-backed super PAC used AI bots posing as journalists
An investigation has found that a news website called The Wire by Acutus published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts ...
Study Finds Roughly a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated
Researchers analyzing Internet Archive data have found that approximately 35 percent of websites published since late 2022 are AI-generated or AI-assisted. The ...
Jurors with negative views of Musk and AI selected for OpenAI trial
A jury was selected on Monday for the Musk v. Altman trial in federal court in Oakland, California, with several chosen jurors voicing concerns about Elon Musk ...
Microsoft Open-Sources DOS 1.0, Releasing Original Source Code and Annotations
Microsoft has open-sourced the original source code for PC-DOS 1.00, the operating system that launched the company toward its dominant position in personal com...
Ecovacs cuts robot vacuum prices by up to $450 as tariffs stabilize
Robot vacuum maker Ecovacs has enacted permanent price cuts across most of its U.S. lineup, with savings reaching $450 on certain models. The company said the r...
Classic ZSNES emulator reborn as Super ZSNES with GPU acceleration
The original developers of ZSNES, the seminal Super Nintendo emulator from the DOS era, have released a from-scratch reboot called Super ZSNES. The new version ...
Apple introduces cheaper App Store subscription option with 12-month commitment
Apple is rolling out a new subscription model that lets developers offer lower monthly pricing in exchange for a yearlong customer commitment. The company annou...
Prospective Jurors in Musk-Altman Trial Express Negative Views of Elon Musk
Jury selection began Monday in the lawsuit between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI. Several prospective jurors expressed strongl...
Union files labor charge against Apple over Towson store closure
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing Ap...
Lightelligence surges 400% in Hong Kong trading debut amid AI chip demand
Shanghai-based photonics chip maker Lightelligence surged by roughly 400 percent in its Hong Kong trading debut, reflecting strong investor appetite for AI-link...
California antitrust bill targeting Big Tech self-preferencing fails after lobbying blitz
A California bill that would have barred trillion-dollar tech companies from favoring their own products over competitors has failed in committee after an inten...
South Africa withdraws national AI policy after discovering fake academic citations
South Africa's Communications Minister Solly Malatsi on Monday withdrew the country's draft national artificial intelligence policy after an investigation found...
Australia proposes 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok unless they pay news publishers
The Australian government released draft legislation on Tuesday for a News Bargaining Incentive that would impose a 2.25% levy on the Australian revenues of Met...
SquareMind raises $18M for AI-powered skin imaging robot
Paris-based SquareMind raised $18 million to commercialize its Swan robot, which uses artificial intelligence and robotics for full-body dermoscopic skin imagin...
Paragon Said to Be Uncooperative With Italian Spyware Investigation
Israeli-American surveillance technology maker Paragon Solutions has not responded to formal requests for information from Italian prosecutors investigating a s...
Data center firm Csquare files for IPO
Csquare, a Brookfield-owned data center company, has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Vertiv acquires Strategic Thermal Labs to expand liquid cooling portfolio
Power technology firm Vertiv has acquired cold-plate design specialist Strategic Thermal Labs (STL) to strengthen its liquid cooling offering. The acquisition ...