Samsung reports Q1 revenue up ~10% YoY to ~$53.4B and operating profit flat YoY at ~$4.5B, above ~$3.8B est., boosted by Galaxy S25 and legacy DRAM sales — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
Nintendo and Sony fell by 10%+ on April 7 amid a widespread selloff in Japan exacerbated by US tariffs; most Switch hardware is assembled in China and Vietnam — Nintendo, fresh off the announcement of its pivotal next-generation Switch 2 console, is particularly vulnerable as North America accounted …
Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence — Now an open-source protocol and with a new long-range technology, the path forward for Z-Wave looks clearer, with a little help from Matter.
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device — After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.
A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024 — By getting its humanoids into people's homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous amounts of data that can show these robots how to handle …
Anthropic's Alignment Science team: “legibility” or “faithfulness” of reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought can't be trusted and models may actively hide reasoning — We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) …
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram — Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies — In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
Miami-based Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins for cross-border remittances and handled $1B+ of transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised $75M Series B led by QED — Remittance startup Felix Pago raised $75 million in a Series B round led by QED Investors as it looks to expand operations …
Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM — - BI obtained training docs showing how freelancers stress-test AI with “harmful” prompts. — Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers …
Sources: Meta aims to release Llama 4 later this month after pushing back its release date at least twice due to underperformance in reasoning and math tasks — Last spring, Meta Platforms was on a tear. It had just released Llama 3, a new generation of its large language model …
Chainalysis estimates North Korean hackers stole over $6B in crypto over the past decade and accounted for ~60% of industry-wide theft losses in 2024 — More than $6 billion from heists highlights the sophistication of cyber operations funneling cash to Kim Jong Un's nuclear program
Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access — How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
Survey: 35% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact in the US over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI will have a positive impact — The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control …
Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional” — After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline : Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 202...
