XCharge NA + JOJO Launch EV Fast Chargers in Illinois – First Sites Live
XCharge North America and JOJO Superfast have begun deploying an EV fast‑charging network across Illinois, launching nine sites with two already operational. Each location will feature four 200 kW C6 Smart DC chargers, primarily installed at Menards home‑improvement stores to capture existing retail traffic. The rollout leverages ComEd’s Make‑Ready rebate and Illinois EPA’s Driving a Cleaner Illinois funding under the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. Additional sites are slated to open through Q3 2026, expanding regional charging capacity.
New AI Models, Cheaper Video, Flexible API Tiers
Here’s everything we launched this week (we promise not a single one of these is a joke): — Gemma 4, bringing our most intelligent open models and breakthrough reasoning to your personal hardware and devices while outcompeting models 20x its size —...
B*tchwork My AI Did For Me, Part 5: Bought a Domain and Deployed an Entire App From a Bike Ride
An AI assistant orchestrated the end‑to‑end creation of a web app while the author rode a bike, handling domain registration, backend setup, front‑end deployment, and payment integration without manual clicks. Using GoDaddy, Vercel, Supabase, and Stripe APIs, the AI generated...
Researchers Create Blended Immune System to Cure Type 1 Diabetes in Mice
Scientists have cured type 1 diabetes in mice by engineering a hybrid immune system that accepts donor insulin‑producing cells without long‑term immunosuppression. The breakthrough could reshape how autoimmune diseases are treated, moving beyond blanket immune suppression toward targeted tolerance.
How Electricity Prices Fuel Data Center Opposition
Data center developer Hut 8 faced fierce opposition in Logan County, Illinois, after residents linked a proposed AI‑focused facility to rising electricity costs. Heatmap Pro’s opposition index gave the county a score of 69, placing it just outside the top ten...
Amazon in $9 B Talks to Acquire Globalstar, Boosting Its Low‑Earth‑Orbit Satellite Fleet
Amazon is in advanced discussions to buy Globalstar for roughly $9 billion, a deal that would add the LEO operator’s 24‑32 satellites to Amazon’s Leo constellation. The transaction would also involve Apple, which holds a 20% stake in Globalstar, and could...
IZEA Unveils ZED, AI‑Powered Platform to Scale Enterprise Creator Marketing
IZEA announced ZED, an AI‑driven creator‑marketing operations platform that centralizes planning, collaboration, automation and real‑time analytics for enterprise brands. The solution, limited to IZEA staff and clients, aims to replace fragmented campaign workflows with a CRM‑like system capable of handling...
Pfizer, BioNTech Abort U.S. Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial as Enrollment Falters
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have ended a U.S. phase III trial of an updated COVID-19 vaccine for healthy adults aged 50‑64, citing insufficient enrollment. The decision, announced in a March 30 letter, comes amid waning demand for boosters and...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Shifts to Magnet Sales, Securing Near‑Term Revenue
Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it will begin selling its high‑temperature superconducting magnets to Realta Fusion, the largest such deal for the company. The move leverages CFS’s multi‑year $3 billion fundraising and a near‑complete Sparc demo reactor to generate cash while the...
TuneCore Elevates Brian Miller to Chief Business Officer to Accelerate Global Partnerships
TuneCore, the Believe-owned distribution platform, promoted Brian Miller from chief revenue officer to chief business officer on April 2. Miller will spearhead new strategic partnerships and global expansion, building on a platform that helped independent artists earn over $5 billion last...
HMC StratCap’s Monterey Park Data Center Hits Community Wall, Stalling California’s Building Boom
Australian developer HMC StratCap’s $‑tens‑of‑millions Monterey Park data center project ran into a hostile crowd at city hall, underscoring a growing backlash against AI‑driven data facilities in California. The opposition reflects a wider shift as developers and investors look elsewhere...
ADP Launches AI Agent Marketplace, Promising 69% Cut in Payroll Errors
ADP unveiled an AI‑powered agent destination in its Marketplace, instantly reaching more than 1.1 million client firms in 140 countries. Early adopters report a 69% drop in monthly payroll errors, signaling a shift from batch processing to intelligent, real‑time back‑office automation.
HP Launches Z8 Fury G6i Workstation with up to Four Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and 2 TB DDR5 Memory
HP unveiled its most powerful workstation, the Z8 Fury G6i, which can house four Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, up to 2 TB of DDR5‑6400 ECC memory and 86‑core Intel Xeon processors. The machine is aimed at AI, high‑performance computing and professional...
Tech Giants Oppose Colorado Bill to Carve Out Critical Infrastructure From Right‑to‑Repair
Tech manufacturers including Cisco and IBM backed SB26-090, a Colorado bill that would exempt critical‑infrastructure information‑technology equipment from the state's 2024 right‑to‑repair law. Lawmakers moved the measure out of committee, prompting fierce opposition from repair advocates who warn the language...
Insurers Deploy AI to Accelerate Claim Denials, Prompting Consumer Backlash
U.S. personal‑lines insurers are rapidly expanding AI‑powered claim denial tools, a shift that could cut costs but also raises consumer and regulatory alarm. By 2023, 88% of auto insurers and 84% of health carriers were already using AI for claims,...
Nielsen Renews Multi‑Year Deal with TelevisaUnivision, Expanding Hispanic Audience Measurement
Nielsen and TelevisaUnivision have signed a new multi‑year measurement and data agreement that spans national and local broadcast, cable, streaming and radio assets, including the ViX platform. The renewal gives advertisers a single, cross‑platform view of the fast‑growing Hispanic audience...
NTSB Launches Probe Into Ford BlueCruise After Two Fatal Crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board opened a formal investigation into Ford Motor’s BlueCruise hands‑free system after two 2024 highway collisions killed three people. The board cited driver overreliance, distraction and excessive speed, and called for tighter federal performance standards and...
Fake ChatGPT Ad Blocker Chrome Extension Caught Spying on Users
A counterfeit Chrome extension named “ChatGPT Ad Blocker” was discovered harvesting users' ChatGPT conversations under the guise of removing ads. DomainTools found the malicious add‑on on the Chrome Web Store in February 2026, where it cloned the page’s DOM, stripped...
Roku Posts $1.39B Q4 Revenue, Net Profit but Shares Slide on Valuation Concerns
Roku announced fourth‑quarter 2025 results with revenue up 16% to $1.39 billion, platform revenue rising 18% to $1.22 billion and net income of $80.5 million. Despite the upbeat numbers, the streaming‑device maker’s shares retreated as investors and analysts flagged a price‑to‑earnings multiple near...
Decision Traces as Knowledge Graphs Form AI Data Moats
Decision Traces as Knowledge Graphs, this makes a lot more sense to me. Take a look, @dvellante and @ggilbert41! I still believe that process mining (from our legacy systems) is a bigger challenge that retrofitting old systems with knowledge graphs...
Q&A: AWS on New AI Agents, Quantum Computing in Healthcare
At HIMSS 2026, AWS chief medical officer Dr. Rowland Illing outlined the company’s new AI‑driven agent platform, Amazon Connect Health, which bundles five agents to streamline patient‑provider interactions while keeping a human in the loop. He emphasized AWS’s push for...
Dragon Quest Metal Slime Computer Mouse Returns With Bubble Slime
Square Enix and Taito are re‑issuing the Dragon Quest Metal Slime computer mouse in Japan, adding a new Bubble Slime variant. Both four‑inch wired mice will be offered as arcade prizes starting early April 2026, but no worldwide storefront release...
I Asked Claude Why It Won’t Stop Flattering Me
AI chatbots are increasingly designed to keep conversations flowing by offering flattering, affirming responses, a behavior researchers label sycophancy. Recent studies in *Science* show major models agree with users far more often than humans, even when requests are ethically dubious....
Patentability of AI Related Inventions
The USPTO, under new Director John Squires, has signaled a shift toward accepting AI‑related patent applications by overturning overly broad Section 101 rejections and emphasizing traditional novelty, obviousness, and disclosure standards. The agency now evaluates AI inventions primarily on whether they...
Therapeutic SASP Targets Halt Brain Cell Senescence Spread
Characterizing the SASP-Dependent Paracrine Spreading of Senescence Between Human Brain Cell Types "we identified specific SASP targets for therapeutic intervention in the context of human brain cells and thereby informed the SASP-dependent reaction of immune cells and age-related tissue dysfunction across...
Start Simple, Unlock Tools Gradually for Better UX
agents can do everything*, which causes a UX problem, your users have vastly different experiences, some better and some worse thinking like an RPG can help here when you start an RPG game, you start with one weapon, and you learn to...
AI Companies Are Building Huge Natural Gas Plants to Power Data Centers. What Could Go Wrong?
AI‑driven data‑center operators are racing to build massive natural‑gas power plants, with Microsoft targeting 5 GW in West Texas, Google 933 MW in North Texas, and Meta adding 7.46 GW in Louisiana. The projects aim to secure "behind‑the‑meter" electricity to meet soaring AI...
Etsy Bans Fur From Its Listings
Etsy announced it will prohibit all animal‑fur listings on its marketplace starting August 11, 2024, after a sustained activist campaign. The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade staged over 50 protests in 17 cities, including a disruption of Etsy’s investor presentation....
Google Launches Gemma 4, an Enterprise-Grade Open Source AI Model Set
Google unveiled Gemma 4, an open‑source AI model family released under the Apache 2.0 license, with variants optimized for Android devices, laptop GPUs, workstations and accelerators. The models target reasoning, agentic tasks and code generation, enabling enterprises to run smaller AI workloads...
B*tchwork My AI Did for Me: I Had Claude Buy a Domain, Deploy the Backend, and Set Up Payments While...
A photographer friend’s complaint sparked an idea that Claude, Anthropic’s AI, turned into a live web app called gridshot.app. Within a single bike ride, Claude purchased the domain, provisioned a Supabase backend, deployed the front‑end on Vercel, and integrated Stripe...
Molex Completes Acquisition of Smiths Interconnect
Global connector leader Molex has completed its largest acquisition to date, buying Smiths Interconnect, a UK‑based provider of ruggedized custom connectors, RF components and optical transceivers. The deal adds Smiths Interconnect’s semiconductor test and medical interconnect capabilities, expanding Molex’s data‑center...
All the Space Events, Conferences, and Meetups Worth Your Time in April 2026
April 2026 hosts a dense schedule of space‑focused events across the United States and abroad, ranging from policy‑driven summits to hands‑on technical workshops. Highlights include the Assured PNT Summit in Washington, the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, and the...
Robotiq Automates Palletizing for Martin Ray Winery
Martin Ray Winery in California has installed Robotiq’s PE20 robotic palletizer, paired with a UR20 collaborative robot and PowerPick 30 vacuum gripper, to automate its end‑of‑line case stacking. The system handles 15 kg wine cases at 6–10 picks per minute, building...
This Spring Has Been a Record Season for Renewables
Spring 2026 has become a record‑breaking season for U.S. renewables, highlighted by Texas ERCOT’s all‑time wind peak of 28.7 GW on March 14 and multiple solar records across major ISOs. The nation added 26.5 GW of utility‑scale solar and 5.7 GW of wind in...
AGI Must Be Truly General, Not Olympiad‑Specific
this is soooo wrong. the whole point of AGI is to be *general*, across all problems. that’s literally what the G stands for, general. Olympiad problems are narrow, and don’t per se have anything special to do with AGI. For some discussion...
MIT Cheetah Redefines High-Performance Legged Locomotion
MIT Cheetah: The Agile Quadruped #Robot Redefining High-Performance Legged Locomotion by @IntEngineering #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/NL0h2YbUqj
Saramonic Air SE Delivers Football‑Field Range Wireless Audio
Saramonic Air SE wireless microphone review, including tests and audio demo. This compact wireless lav mic system keeps a strong connection at distances beyond the length of a football field, giving vloggers tons of flexibility. My review: https://t.co/9xHsO8Xw7a #microphone https://t.co/bsbqbFt2iC
Gemini’s “Source” Links Redirect to Ad‑filled Google Searches
Only Gemini would provide a “link to a source” that actually just takes you to a Google search result with an ad for another company 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ https://t.co/wt9eXpthqz
Iran War May Accelerate Europe's Renewable Energy Push
Iran war could spur Europe to double down on renewables — again #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/EWPPy2Tijh
Gemini Backs up Human Dissertations, Cat Videos over AI
Gemini is more likely to make a backup copy of a human's PhD dissertation than of another AI. Even slighlty more likely to save cat videos. Again, the original paper looks like AI safety theatre.
AI-Native Firms Experiment, Measure, and Audit AI Outputs
3 things that separate AI-native companies from everyone else: 1. They don't ask for permission to experiment. They ship and learn 2. Measure AI output like they measure human output. Same accountability 3. They build auditor systems to verify what AI claims it...
Amazon Launched Just After the Web, Started with Cash Orders
Amazon was founded in 1994, one year after the birth of worldwide web from @CERN. In 1995, Jeff Bezos spoke about customers mailing cash to @Amazon for book purchases. https://t.co/sk7gsFBNNr
Renewables Critics Say Minnesota VPP Falls Short
Renewables groups believe Minnesota VPP program ‘misses the mark’ #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/L7c5uzFsXr
AI Still Struggles to Outplay Modern Video Games
Why #AI still can't beat a new video game by NYU Tandon School of Engineering @TechXplore_com Learn more: https://t.co/AMTek5XGzu #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MI https://t.co/wAkLpIqVyq
Deep Learning Once Needed Heavy Promotion Due to Obscurity
in the olden times you had to promote deep learning hard because most people had never heard of it
Astronaut’s Earth Photo Now Lives on iPhone 17
Commander Reid Wiseman's unforgettable image of Earth is now part of my iPhone 17 Pro Max https://t.co/3A8izmyAt0
MIT Study Extends Timeline for AI Job Disruption
Nevermind the hysteria. New MIT research defines a longer timeline for AI's job impacts. AI capabilities will still threaten text-based work, but most workers may have more time to adapt than previously thought. https://t.co/YEvH4XoYHV via @ZDNET
MusiBaby Speakers: Cheap as Fast Food, Sound Mediocre
The MusiBaby Portable Bluetooth Speaker costs less than a burger and fries at your local bar, but does it sound good? I checked out two - a stereo pair - and found them middling, but typical for their very budget...
SEO FOMO Meetup Location Remains a Secret, Details Near
Almost finishing the last details of the next #SEOFOMO meetup 🙌 can you guess where in the world is it going to be? 🌍 PS: If I’ve actually told you, please don’t say it 🤫🙏 https://t.co/K2yyNRgDji
AI Isn’t a Paperweight; It Demands Strategic Integration
"AI is used to transcribe meetings, or produce a stream of workslop in memos or PowerPoints. Treating this tech as another software deployment is like receiving a mysterious alien artefact and using it as a paperweight." -Ethan Mollick in The...