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ARCHIVE FRIDAY, APRIL 3 · 39 STORIES
Research Finds AI Users Increasingly Surrender Critical Thinking to LLMs Under 'Cognitive Surrender'
Research from the University of Pennsylvania has identified a psychological phenomenon called "cognitive surrender" in which AI users routinely outsource their ...
India's Bollywood embraces AI production tools as Hollywood unions resist
MUMBAI. India's film industry, the world's most prolific by output, is rapidly adopting artificial intelligence to slash production timelines and costs, even as...
Study finds widespread 'cognitive surrender' as users defer to flawed AI reasoning
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Research involving more than 1,300 participants across 9,000 trials documents a phenomenon researchers term 'cognitive surrender,' where users ...
Anthropic Ends Claude Subscription Coverage for Third-Party Tools Like OpenClaw Starting April 4
Anthropic announced Thursday that Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools including OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, a signifi...
AI Cited as Cause of 25% of US Job Cuts in March as Tech Layoffs Accelerate
Artificial intelligence was cited as the reason for approximately one quarter of all US job cuts recorded in March, as total layoffs rose roughly 25 percent fro...
Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
A growing contingent of AI researchers and startups locked out of the most advanced computing hardware are embracing what practitioners call "frugal AI" -- buil...
Utah Becomes Second US State to Allow AI Chatbot to Prescribe Psychiatric Medications
Utah has authorized a one-year pilot program allowing an AI chatbot developed by startup Legion Health to renew certain psychiatric medication prescriptions wit...
Google Adds Veo 3.1 Video Generation and AI Avatars to Workspace's Vids Tool
Google has updated its Vids video creation tool within Google Workspace with its latest AI video and audio models, including Veo 3.1 for video generation and Ly...
Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-Billion Parameter Open Source Reasoning Model
Arcee AI has released Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-billion parameter mixture-of-experts AI model published under the Apache 2.0 open source license, making it ...
Tesla's Texas Gigafactory Workforce Shrank 22% in 2025 Amid Second Straight Year of Declining Sales
Tesla's workforce at its Texas Gigafactory fell from 21,191 workers to 16,506 workers in 2025, a reduction of approximately 22 percent, according to a report ci...
Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Writing Code After Two Decades, Submits Diffs and Uses Claude Code Heavily
Mark Zuckerberg has returned to writing code for the first time in roughly two decades, submitting three diffs to Meta's internal monorepo and becoming a heavy ...
Take-Two Interactive Lays Off Head of AI Division and Team in Games Industry Retrenchment
Take-Two Interactive has laid off Luke Dicken, the head of its AI division, along with an undisclosed number of team members, Engadget reported. Dicken confirme...
H.264 Video Streaming License Fees Jump From $100,000 Cap to $4.5 Million in Restructured System
Via LA, the patent pool administrator for the H.264/AVC video codec, has quietly restructured its streaming license fees, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap w...
Supermicro Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Smuggling Billions in Nvidia Servers to Restricted Parties
Super Micro Computer co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw entered a not guilty plea Wednesday in Manhattan federal court on charges related to smuggling billions o...
OpenAI Acquires TBPN Tech Talk Show in Its First Media Purchase
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the Technology Business Programming Network, a daily live talk show popular in Silicon Valley startup and technology circles, marking ...
Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
Chinese semiconductor companies posted record revenue in the most recent reporting period, driven by surging domestic demand for AI chips and the unintended con...
Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC, a Bipartisan Employee-Funded Political Action Committee
Anthropic has formed a new political action committee called AnthroPAC, according to a federal filing reported by The Hill. The PAC will be funded exclusively a...
Trump's Partisan AI Pitch Stalls in Congress as Democrats Pull Back from National Framework
The White House's effort to pass a national AI law that would block states from enacting their own AI regulations is stalling in Congress, as key Democrats grow...
Senate Bill Would Ban US Exports of DUV Chipmaking Equipment to China Under MATCH Act
A US Senate bill would ban the export of deep ultraviolet lithography equipment to China, targeting a category of chipmaking machinery that has become central t...
Meta and Google Face Legal Challenges as Court Cases Begin to Erode Section 230 Protections
Meta, Google, and other major internet platforms are confronting a new wave of legal challenges in which courts are allowing cases to proceed in ways that test ...
NLRB Rules Amazon Must Negotiate With Staten Island Warehouse Workers Union
The US National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents approximately 5,000 workers at its Stat...
Y Combinator cuts ties with Delve amid fraud allegations
SAN FRANCISCO. Y Combinator has severed its relationship with compliance startup Delve, marking a rare public split between the prestigious accelerator and a po...
Mental Health AI Startup Kintsugi Shuts Down and Open-Sources Depression Detection Technology
Kintsugi, a clinical AI startup that developed technology to detect signs of depression and anxiety through voice analysis, is shutting down and releasing its A...
India's Sarvam AI Raises New Funding at $1.5 Billion Valuation
Sarvam AI, an Indian artificial intelligence startup focused on building language models for South Asian languages and enterprise applications, has raised a new...
DocketWise data breach exposes 116,000 Social Security numbers
WASHINGTON. Immigration case management platform DocketWise has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 116,000 individuals, with compromised informatio...
Germany's Die Linke Party Confirms Data Stolen in Qilin Ransomware Attack
Die Linke, the German left-wing political party, has confirmed that data was stolen from its systems in a ransomware attack carried out by the Qilin group, Blee...
North Korean Hackers Used Social Engineering to Compromise Axios npm Package Maintainer
The maintainer of Axios, one of the most widely used JavaScript HTTP client libraries with hundreds of millions of weekly npm downloads, has confirmed that a su...
Mercor Data Breach Tied to LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Raises Concerns for Anthropic and AI Partners
AI recruiting platform Mercor has confirmed a data breach that security researchers linked to an attack on LiteLLM, an open source library widely used by AI app...
Attackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Compromise 766 Next.js Sites and Harvest Credentials at Scale
A large-scale credential harvesting campaign attributed by Cisco Talos to a tracked threat cluster has exploited CVE-2025-55182, a vulnerability in the React2Sh...
European Commission Cloud Hack Exposed Data of 30 EU Entities, CERT-EU Says
The European Union's cybersecurity service CERT-EU has attributed a breach of European Commission cloud infrastructure to a threat group it tracks as TeamPCP, c...
FBI Labels Suspected Chinese Hack of Law Enforcement Data 'a Major Cyber Incident'
The FBI has classified a suspected Chinese intrusion into a law enforcement data system as a major cyber incident, NBC News reported, marking one of the more si...
Trump's AI Data Center Push Is Failing in Part Because His Own Tariffs Block the Parts Needed to Build Them
Donald Trump's executive orders prioritizing rapid AI data center construction are running into a concrete obstacle: the administration's own aggressive tariffs...
Meta's 'Project Walleye' Ohio Data Center Campus Seeks $3 Billion in Loans Covering Building and Power
Meta is seeking $3 billion in financing for its 'Project Walleye' data center campus in Ohio in a first-of-its-kind deal in which lenders would fund both the co...
Iran Strikes Leave Amazon AWS Availability Zones 'Hard Down' in Bahrain and Dubai
Iranian military strikes have left Amazon Web Services availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai effectively offline, with multiple zones reported as 'hard down' ...
Meta, Microsoft, and Google Are Betting Big on Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all committing to new natural gas power plant construction to meet the electricity demands of their AI data center expansions --...
Arm Architecture on Track to Power 90% of AI Server Custom Silicon by 2029
Approximately 90 percent of AI server custom processors will be based on Arm's instruction set architecture by 2029 as hyperscalers accelerate their shift to in...
Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled as Power and Parts Shortages Bite
Approximately half of planned US data center construction projects have been delayed or canceled as the industry confronts critical shortages of power infrastru...
TSMC Reportedly Planning 12 Fabs and Four Packaging Facilities in Arizona as Part of US Expansion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is reportedly planning to build 12 fabrication plants and four packaging facilities in Arizona as part of an expanded...
Iran's IRGC Claims Strikes on Oracle Data Center in Dubai and Amazon Facility in Bahrain
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday it had struck a data center linked to Oracle in Dubai and an Amazon data center in Bahrain as part of wha...