Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages  —  Apple has reached a settlement with a former employee who it says stole thousands of documents before departing for Snap.

Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month  —  Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption

Cyrus Farivar / The San Francisco Standard:
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025  —  In 2019, the Board of Supervisors passed a landmark law making San Francisco the first major U.S. city to block the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation  —  Isara, founded by a pair of 23-year-old researchers, aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of ‘agents’

Corbin Davenport / How-To Geek:
GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out  —  The generative AI models powering ChatGPT, Copilot Gemini, and other assistants were created with mountains of training data.