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An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 17:26
Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.
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OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 17:23
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
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Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 14:11
Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.
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Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 13:59
The app had already been scheduled for retirement.
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Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive — listen now

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 13:20
Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.
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IBM pays $17M fine to end DOJ suit over DEI programs

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 12:11
IBM entered into a $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the U.S. DOJ over allegations that it engaged in “illegal DEI practices.”
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Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 12:05
The company has also previously introduced agents that are able to complete tasks, Cowork and Copilot Tasks.
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 11:55
Stanford’s latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy.
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FBI announces takedown of phishing operation that targeted thousands of victims

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 11:41
Cybercriminals allegedly used the W3LL phishing kit to target more than 17,000 victims worldwide, stealing their passwords and multi-factor authentication codes.
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Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 10:02
The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, emails, physical addresses, phone numbers may have been accessed in a security incident.
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch signals IPO readiness as AI agents fuel revenue surge

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 08:22
"The company is ready and getting more ready for every day," Rauch said about an IPO at HumanX conference.
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Hack at Anodot leaves over a dozen breached companies facing extortion

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 07:46
The data breach at Anodot, which affects customers like Rockstar Games, is the latest hack aimed at stealing data from a large number of corporate giants.
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Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plans

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 06:26
Slate Auto's latest funding round was led by existing investor TWG Global, a firm run by LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter.
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Roblox introduces ‘Kids’ and ‘Select’ accounts for age-appropriate access to games and chat

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 05:15
Users aged five to nine will be assigned to a "Roblox Kids" account, and users aged nine to 15 to will be put in a "Roblox Select" account.
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The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business

Mon, 04/13/2026 - 00:01
Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space.
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Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 14:14
The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
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Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 12:58
These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.
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X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 10:02
X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier
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TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 09:06
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.  
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From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 08:07
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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