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Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to collect sunlight in satellites and is planning a 2028 demo (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Meta has inked a contract with Overview Energy to secure up to 1 GW of solar power harvested by satellites and beamed to Earth, a move both Bloomberg and TechCrunch highlight as a way to power AI work
Microsoft, OpenAI End Cloud Exclusivity in Amended Deal
Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership to eliminate exclusivity, letting OpenAI deploy products across any cloud provider while ending Microsoft's revenue-share payments to OpenAI.
OpenAI, Microsoft End Deal, Stop Revenue Share
OpenAI and Microsoft have revised their partnership, ending Microsoft’s exclusive access and revenue‑share payments, and allowing OpenAI’s models to run on any cloud provider, signaling a shift toward
Sereact Raises $110M Series B Led by Headline
German robotics software firm Sereact secured $110 million in a Series B round led by Headline, aiming to accelerate its AI platform that lets industrial robots perform tasks they haven’t been trained
OpenAI, Microsoft End Cloud Exclusivity in Revised Deal
OpenAI and Microsoft have amended their partnership, ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud arrangement so OpenAI can serve products through any provider, and Microsoft will no longer pay OpenAI a revenue
Palantir Staff Question Ethics of ICE, DOD Contracts
Palantir employees have raised internal concerns about the company’s work for ICE and the Department of Defense, highlighting ethical dilemmas and noting that a sufficiently malicious client cannot be
Palantir Staff Debate ICE, DOD Contracts
Ars Technica's review of Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews finds employees openly questioning the company's ICE and DOD work during Trump's second term, with the firm's own privacy team concedi
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus deal
China’s regulators ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, citing violations of investment rules and national‑security concerns after a months‑long probe. The decision a
Startup Equity Game Teaches Founders Funding to IPO
Ilia Baranov has launched an interactive 9-stage adventure game on Hacker News, built with Claude, that walks aspiring founders through startup equity mechanics from a napkin idea to an IPO.
YourMemory Hits 52% Recall on LoCoMo
YourMemory, an open-source persistent memory layer for AI assistants, scores 52% Recall@5 on the LoCoMo long-term memory benchmark—2× better than Zep Cloud—using Ebbinghaus-curve decay and entity grap
Tim Cook Gives Ternus 10 Major New Product Categories
Apple, led by Tim Cook, is gearing up for a massive product expansion, with Bloomberg citing a pipeline of 10 new categories, AppleInsider noting three AI‑driven hardware lines, and Geeky Gadgets unco
Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Tokyo‑based Genki Robotics, co‑founded by Android’s Andy Rubin, has secured a Series A round that lifts its valuation to roughly $1 billion, building on a $50 million seed raised in 2025. The funding
Tomora Drops 'Come Closer' EP, 90s Dance Homage
Norwegian singer Aurora and Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands debut their joint project Tomora with the "Come Closer" EP, a '90s‑inspired dance homage that blends big‑beat, trip‑hop, and techno, now str
Gen Z Split: Pandemic Cohort Goes Democratic
New data reveal that Gen Z is no longer a monolithic voting bloc but a bifurcated generation split by pandemic experience, with divergent political leanings, trust levels, and cultural attitudes.
Ketchup Buys Coyote v. Acme from Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s shelved “Coyote v. Acme” finally found a theatrical home after Ketchup Entertainment bought its distribution rights, a move that unfolds as the studio’s $110 billion Paramount
AI Agent Runs Real Retail Store, Hires Humans
Andon Market, a San Francisco boutique, is now operated entirely by an AI agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6, marking a live experiment in autonomous retail business management.
Palantir Staff Question ICE, DoD Deals, Firm 'Baddies'
Palantir employees are publicly questioning the ethics of the company’s contracts with ICE and the Department of Defense, describing internal debates as a crisis and even labeling the firm’s trajector
Microsoft Removes Copilot Branding from Notepad
Microsoft has stripped the Copilot brand from Notepad on Windows 11, rebranding the AI feature while keeping its functionality intact. At the same time, the company now lets enterprise administrators
Palantir Staff Admit They Can’t Block Bad Clients
Palantir’s staff are publicly questioning the firm’s role in government surveillance and warfare, sparking an internal ethics crisis that’s being exposed through leaked Slack logs, employee interviews
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026: April 27–29, Four Domains
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 will run April 27–29 at Tokyo Big Sight with four defined technology domains—AI, robotics, resilience, and entertainment—featuring speakers from Nvidia, AWS, Trend Micro, and Jap
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