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Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

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Your Cheat Sheet on Big Money in Local Politics

THE CITY - All

Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders Begin April 24 In U.S. With Updated Pricing For Certain Products

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Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)

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A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions: calculating fuel-efficient driving patterns, monitoring grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)

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China's Q1 2025 smartphone shipments grew 3.3% YoY to 71.6M units; Xiaomi led with 18.6% market share, Apple was the only foreign brand in top 5 with 13.7% (IDC)

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SPOILER ALERT: 5 Hidden Meanings You'll Miss in The Movie Sinners

The Root

ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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A new Star Wars movie is coming in 2027 from Deadpool & Wolverine’s director

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Star Wars: Starfighter stars Ryan Gosling and hits theaters in 2027

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Memo: CEO Lip-Bu Tan flattens Intel's leadership team, with important semiconductor groups reporting directly to him, and names Sachin Katti as CTO and AI chief (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Gigantamax Snorlax counters, weakness, and battle tips in Pokémon Go

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Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a "Llama Consortium" (The Information)

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Apple Intelligence features, such as Writing Tools, are no longer available in Meta's iOS apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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Celebrating Our Collective Impact in 2024: A Heartfelt Thank You!

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CFPB workers are receiving mass layoff notices

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to "delete" (Makena Kelly/Wired)

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Google’s big problems, briefly explained

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OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and "occasional resource unavailability" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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