Category Archives: Tech News

New York-based Qodo, which offers AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, raised a $70M Series B led by Qumra, taking its total funding to $120M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’, With [...]

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Mar
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | [...]

29
Mar
embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI’s unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Why OpenAI Killed Sora, Did Apple Just Save Siri?, Meta’s [...]

28
Mar
Sony says it plans to raise the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally beginning on April 2; the PS5 will cost $650, PS5 Digital $600, and PS5 Pro $900 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through [...]

27
Mar
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports [...]

26
Mar
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, [...]

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Mar
Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to [...]

24
Mar
Sources: EA is marketing a $15B debt package to fund its $55B Saudi-led take-private deal, including nearly $700M in projected annual cost savings (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: EA is marketing a $15B debt package to fund its $55B Saudi-led take-private [...]

23
Mar
An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI [...]

22
Mar
OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic’s momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Access: Live @ Nvidia’s nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over tech, and the [...]

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Mar