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Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
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EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing "recent market and financial conditions" (Financial Times)
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Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
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Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)
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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
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Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)
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Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a "chief futurist" role (Casey Newton/Platformer)
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London-based commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai agrees to acquire London-based cashback rewards company Reward for $230M (PYMNTS.com)
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Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)