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All Solar Power Plant upgrade component locations in Pragmata

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Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

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Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise $3B+ at a $35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation (The Information)

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Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras (The Information)

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Roblox agrees to pay $12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users (Jessica Hill/Associated Press)

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Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April (Bloomberg)

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App Store Reviews Are Busted

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks (Qwen)

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Freecash Was More Like Scamcash

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IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit $294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit $117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video ads hit $78B, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

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YouTube’s mobile app finally lets you share timestamped videos

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The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ (Wall Street Journal)

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NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a $27M Series A led by Khosla (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

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3 ways The Mandalorian and Grogu brings back old-school Star Wars filmmaking

Polygon - All

I saw the first 15 minutes of The Mandalorian and Grogu and I have a lot of thoughts

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Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist

THE CITY - All

Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach $3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY (Bill Bradley/Adweek)

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Trump’s ceasefire announcement, briefly explained

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How romance works in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Polygon - All