In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavailable” with no delivery estimate and no option to order. The affected models are Mac mini configurations with 32GB or 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB or 256GB […]
Read MoreIn short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic’s Claude Max, which is also priced at $100 per month. The new plan offers five times more Codex usage than […]
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In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver control assistance systems. The approval follows 18 months of testing, 1.6 million kilometres of European road data, and more […]
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In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children’s access to social media. Estonia’s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforceable, that children will find ways around them, and that the correct approach is to enforce the GDPR against […]
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In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital dependencies by autumn 2026. The directive covers operating systems, collaborative tools, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence platforms. It follows […]
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In short: A 20-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 10 April 2026, after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, then travelling across the city to OpenAI’s offices on Third Street and threatening to burn the building down. No one was injured. The suspect’s […]
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In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelter animals to drive adoptions. The tool processes natural language queries to match prospective adopters with compatible shelter pets, and a pilot […]
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In short: Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to distributed data systems and AI infrastructure. The $250,000 prize, funded by an Infosys endowment, is one of computer science’s most prestigious mid-career honours. Zaharia is donating the […]
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In short: Oracle has appointed Hilary Maxson, former executive vice president and group chief financial officer at Schneider Electric, as its new chief financial officer, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson reports to chief executive Clay Magouyrk and takes on the role at a moment when Oracle is committing $50 billion in capital expenditure for its current […]
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In short: Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Google Brain’s compute resources with DeepMind’s research culture and returning to what he called a “startup or entrepreneurial” way of working. He also […]
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In short: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move strips away a C-suite title in exchange for technical proximity to the frontier, and lands […]
Read MoreIn short: Three YouTube content creators, specifically the company behind H3H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging that Amazon bypassed YouTube’s technical protections using virtual machines and rotating IP addresses to scrape their videos without consent, feeding the footage into training datasets for […]
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In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card payments directly into supplier accounts. The company says the changes can shorten collection times by up […]
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In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. Access to Claude Mythos Preview will instead be […]
Read MoreIn short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and security failures to emerge from the company over the past four years. Meta’s internal security systems are designed […]
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In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon’s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber’s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a […]
Read MoreIn short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country’s primary civilian cybersecurity agency to a $2 billion operation after a year already defined by DOGE-driven layoffs and mass departures. The United States’ central […]
Read MoreIn short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Maps. Sharing a photo on Google Maps has always required a […]
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In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices rolled back to 2015 launch levels, and requires Netflix to notify millions of current and former Italian […]
Read MoreIn short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and attaches it to every API request you make during your session. The practice, labelled “BrowserGate” by researchers, […]
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In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot “for entertainment purposes only” and warns users not to rely on it for important advice. The […]
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In short: Anthropic has blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their flat-rate plans with third-party AI agent frameworks, starting with OpenClaw. The move, which took effect on 4 April 2026, shifts the cost of running autonomous agents onto users through a pay-as-you-go billing tier. The creator of OpenClaw, who joined OpenAI in February, called […]
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Database credentials remain one of the most common attack vectors in enterprise breaches, yet most organisations still manage them through shared spreadsheets, hardcoded connection strings, or standalone credential vaults with no session oversight. Keeper Security, the Chicago-based cybersecurity company best known for its password management platform, is attempting to close that gap with KeeperDB, a […]
Read MoreTesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 2025. The margin, roughly 48,000 units, was enough for the headline. What it was not enough to do was silence the questions multiplying around […]
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Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor’s office, […]
Read MoreEighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the company told Business Insider that it has crossed $100 million in ARR, a milestone that in enterprise software typically takes the better part of a decade. Max Junestrand, Legora’s 26-year-old […]
Read MoreMark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and told them that each one represented a billion dollars of Meta’s market capitalisation. There were, by that maths, roughly 1,400 sweets in the jar. The jury awarded his client six […]
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Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since […]
Read MoreSix weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […]
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Six months after listing on the New York Stock Exchange at $40 a share, Klarna is trading at roughly $12. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company that once symbolised European fintech’s arrival on Wall Street has lost more than three quarters of its market value since its September debut. On Tuesday, it announced a $1.7 billion significant […]
Read MoreOn Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middle lane of ring roads with traffic streaming past on both sides. Passengers trapped […]
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