April 08, 2026

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Volkswagen begins testing its self-driving microbuses in Los Angeles ahead of launch with Uber: Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America still has a long and winding regulatory road before it can launch a commercial robotaxi service. Read More

Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a 'ground-up overhaul' of its AI: This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang. Read More

Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT: Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account: The maker of the popular open source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers. Read More

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already': Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood. Read More

AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict: AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners. Read More

Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices: Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content. Read More

How nuclear batteries could speed the race to fusion power: Avalanche Energy is working on a DARPA project to build a new class of materials capable of turning damaging radiation into electricity. Read More

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Last but Not Least

British cryptographer Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto: Back, a long-time researcher and pioneer in cryptography, denies the allegation that he is the secretive creator of Bitcoin. Read More

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