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Do You Know the Tragic Story of Phyllis Hyman, the Gorgeous Soul Singer?

The Root

OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

ICE Agents Swab Passengers’ Hands To Test For Immigrant Residue

The Onion

Mouse: P.I. for Hire physical and digital edition details revealed

Polygon - All

Life is Strange: Reunion's Max and Chloe say the sequel 'deepens' the original

Polygon - All

Google’s Android Automotive is moving from the dashboard to the ‘brain’ of the car

The Verge - All Posts

Life is Strange: Reunion is a full-circle moment for its stars

The Verge - All Posts

Fortnite developer Epic Games lays off 1,000 staffers, citing 'industry-wide challenges'

Polygon - All

Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Steam Spring Sale 2026 includes 20 of 2025's best games

Polygon - All

Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center project in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Don Lemon Shares His Frightening Connection to Rihanna Shooting Incident

The Root

Apple Maps will introduce ads this summer

The Verge - All Posts

Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Ai2 launches MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4B and 8B parameter sizes, operating via browser screenshots rather than parsing HTML (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Techmeme

Marathon Review - Actions Have Consequences

Game Informer

Halter, which provides AI-powered cow collars for remote herding via audio and vibration cues, raised $220M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Nia Long Alleges Stalker Has Harassed Her For Two Years

The Root

New Twist in Nia Long’s Allege Stalker Drama

The Root

Brandon Sanderson MTG novella Children of the Nameless gets a pricy print edition

Polygon - All