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PM summons TikTok, Meta, X bosses to No 10 to push for children’s online safety
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Keir Starmer summons tech giants to No10 after powerful warning from families
Keir Starmer summons tech giants to No10 after powerful warning from familiesBereaved parents have piled pressure on Keir Starmer to take urgent action on social media - as MPs voted down a proposal to ban under 16s from accessing platformsCommentsNewsSophie Huskisson Political Correspondent22:30, 15 Apr 2026Updated 22:36, 15 Apr 2026View 2 ImagesThe PM has summoned tech giants into Downing Street(Image: James Veysey/Shutterstock)Bereaved parents have piled pressure on Keir Starmer to take urgen...
How SambaNova Is Challenging Nvidia With High Performance Inferencing Technology
SambaNova CEO and Cofounder Rodrigo Liang sat down with Forbes to discuss the fundamental differences between traditional GPUs and data flow chips for AI inference. He also talks about the transition from human-centric AI use to the rise of autonomous agentic workflows and the necessity for low-latency hardware to support these complex, serial agent interactions.
Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends in with an acquisition by Caterpillar
Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business, according to filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The acquisition, first reported by Bloomberg, caps a few tough years for Monarch as it went through multiple rounds of layoffs, was sued by three different dealers, and lost a major contract manufacturing partner in Foxconn. It also comes just a few weeks after co-founder and wine s...
Report: Cellular modules from Chinese companies in smart home devices are national security risk
A new report is warning that Chinese-produced cellular modules, tiny components that are inside smart home devices, present a significant national security risk for the United States. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) report, first shared with The Hill, found that two Chinese firms, Quectel and Fibocom, control nearly half the global market for…
Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for Insurance - Tesla
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SpaceX Plans Site Visits for Large Investors as Mega-IPO Nears
SpaceX is gearing up to take potential anchor investors in its IPO on a tour of its marquee sites across America, people familiar with the plans said, as billionaire Elon Musk’s company targets the biggest ever market debut.
'Bubbly Kind of Thing' with Allbirds AI: A.J. Rohde
A.J. Rohde, senior partner at Thoma Bravo, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Allbirds, the once-buzzy maker of wool sneakers valued at more than $4 billion in its heyday, announced a new business plan just days before it planned to close down for good: AI computing infrastructure. Its shares surged. (Source: Bloomberg)
More Than 50% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Comes From Games Outside 20 Most Popular Titles, New Study Finds (Gaming News Roundup)
More video game playtime and revenue is now coming from games beyond the top 20 most popular PC games, according to a new report from Newzoo. For PC, 56% of Western-based revenue came from games ranked outside the top 20 last year, up from 48% in 2022. PC saw a jump from 33% of playtime […]
How you could get free electricity for doing your washing
You could get free or cheaper electricity from your energy company for running appliances during periods of excess supply, such as sunny weekends.
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents
Agentic AI is the tech industry’s newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers. To that end, OpenAI has now updated its agents software development toolkit (SDK), introducing a number of new features designed to help businesses create their own agents that run on the backs of OpenAI’s models. The SDK’s new capabilities include a sandboxing ability, which allows the agent...
Afghan high school senior is detained by ICE as he prepared to graduate
ImmigrationAfghan high school senior is detained by ICE as he prepared to graduateThe 18-year-old entered the U.S. legally on humanitarian parole along with his father, who served as an interpreter for U.S. forces. Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00ShareAdd NBC News to GoogleApril 15, 2026, 3:12 PM EDTBy Nicole AcevedoA high school senior in Connecticut is spending his days in immigration detention after ICE picked him up last week on the first day of his spring break.Subscribe...
Lahore-Rawalpindi Fast Train to Complete Journey in 2.25 Hours
BusinessMust ReadLahore-Rawalpindi Fast Train to Complete Journey in 2.25 HoursBy Web Desk-Apr 16, 2026LAHORE – In a landmark move destined to redefine public infrastructure in Pakistan, the Punjab Government and Pakistan Railways have signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the province’s first high-speed train service and modernize regional rail networks. The project, spearheaded by Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Federal Minister for Railways Hanif Abbasi,...
Allbirds soars after sneaker firm rebrands as AI stock
Allbirds, the once-buzzy maker of wool sneakers, announced a new business plan just days before it planned to close down for good: AI computing infrastructure. Ed Ludlow explains the move. (Source: Bloomberg)
LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet
LinkedIn’s Blake Lawit, the Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at Semafor’s World Economy summit this week that the company’s data shows a decline in hiring of around 20% since 2022. However, he pushed back at the idea that AI was to blame.
Feds will require data centers to show their power bills
The Energy Information Agency told two U.S. Senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use, according to Wired. The development comes a month after Sens. Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter asking the EIA to gather data on data centers. The request was an effort to push the agency to cover an industry that is consuming ever-increasing amounts of energy.
Mutiny Killed Its SaaS Business And Grew MRR 12 Times Faster
Mutiny CEO Jaleh Rezaei shut down an eight-figure ARR SaaS business backed by Sequoia to rebuild agent-first — and hit 188% week-over-week MRR growth. Here's what the pivot reveals about the real cost of AI transition for B2B founders and their investors.
AI learning app Gizmo levels up with 13M users and a $22M investment
Since its launch in 2021, Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform that transforms students’ notes into interactive study materials, has attracted more than 13 million users across over 120 countries. This is a significant jump from the over 300,000 users the platform had when TechCrunch last covered it in 2023. And, as user adoption increases, investor interest is following suit. The company recently secured $22 million in Series A funding, according to its announcement on Tuesday.
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: people who felt harmed by coverage had little recourse to fight back. His solution is software. D’Souza says his latest startup, Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism. And for the price of $2,000, anyone can pay to challenge a story, triggering a public investigation into its claims. (D’Souza is also the founder of the Enha...
Trump Crypto Firm Draws Scrutiny With Plan to Delay Investor Trading
World Liberty Financial Inc., the crypto project co-founded by President Donald Trump, is facing a fresh round of criticism after proposing that some tokens owned by some early investors remain unavailable for trading indefinitely — or at least until Trump leaves office.