Jo Constantz / Bloomberg:
Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight  —  The promises and perils of the ChatGPT generation.  —  As soon as he got a company email address for his summer internship …

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY  —  European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows.  That's up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth.

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities”  —  Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand …

Bloomberg:
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue  —  Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …

Timmy Shen / The Block:
X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada  —  Quick Take  — Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the team has launched the “Cashtags” feature, which enables users to browse stock …