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Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Australia's online safety regulator says social me...

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Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging)

Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates ima...

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Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers d...

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An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (Casey Newton/Platformer)

An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on ma...

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Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down fro...

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Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2.92B, raises FY profit forecast by 8% to ~$10.56B, and says it secured enough memory chip supply for the FY (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2...

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MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates up to 15-second clips in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, and plans to release its weights within days (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates ...

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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (Financial Times)

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combin...

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A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities infor...

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Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Ap...

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Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of 9% to 11% YoY, below a 12%+ estimate, citing supply constraints and currency fluctuations (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of 9% to 11% YoY...

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Sources: Tesla execs were told to prepare for a separation of its China unit ahead of a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Tesla execs were told to prepare for a se...

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Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20% in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20%...

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Chip stocks rallied Thursday after strong Microsoft and Lam Research earnings: Lam Research closed up 18%, Micron 18%, Sandisk 26%, Arm 7%, AMD 13%, Intel 11% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Chip stocks rallied Thursday after strong Microsof...

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Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5...

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Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, add...

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Tim Cook says Apple expects "the impact from the supply constraints to increase significantly sequentially" and the market pricing for memory to keep rising (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Tim Cook says Apple expects "the impact from the s...

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Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic says the models that breached three comp...

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