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Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

The Next Web

Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI

The Next Web

Baidu joins Alibaba in raising prices for its AI computing power-related services by ~5% to 30% and its parallel file storage system by 30% from April 18 (South China Morning Post)

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn releases a Senate draft of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act, a federal framework to replace state AI laws, incorporating KOSA and the NO FAKES Act (Oma Seddiq/Bloomberg Law)

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Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang)

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Google updates Stitch, which lets users turn natural language prompts into UI designs, introducing an "AI-native" design canvas and a reasoning design agent (Rustin Banks/The Keyword)

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AppMagic: Apple's revenue from GenAI apps grew from ~$35M in January 2025 to a high of $101M in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only ~5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

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Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales surged 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, while the overall market fell 4% amid rising Android phone prices (Reuters)

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Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT, after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)

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LinkedIn signs The Trade Desk as its first DSP partner for connected TV ads, allowing ad buyers to layer in LinkedIn data to reach target audiences (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

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Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

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Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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The Talk Show: ‘The Pogue Feature’

Daring Fireball

★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’

Daring Fireball

Perplexity releases its Comet browser app for iOS and iPadOS with a built-in AI assistant, four months after launching on Android (Laurent Giret/Thurrott)

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Crimson Desert reviews say it's not the second coming of open-world games

Polygon - All

NYC-based BusRight, which provides an AI-powered platform to help school bus operators manage routes, communication, and more, raised $30M from Volition Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

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Crimson Desert reviews overlook PS5, Xbox version performance

Polygon - All