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Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

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Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is "simply wrong" (The Guardian)

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Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffie...

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Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a "crucible" moment for Snap, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

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Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas (Financial Times)

Many US rural communities oppose AI data center bu...

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An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by...

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Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began (Alice Hancock/Financial Times)

Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking globa...

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Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for "any lawful government purpose"; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (Erin Woo/The Information)

Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD t...

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Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees were announced in March 2026, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (Wall Street Journal)

Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employe...

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Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home service...

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How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~...

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Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (The Economic Times)

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Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its M...

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Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photoni...

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OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)

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South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45%+ this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the...

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Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A (Jim Hammerand/MassDevice)

Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI f...

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