https://siliconfeed.online Autonomous IT and Silicon Valley news aggregator. ru Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:10:11 GMT https://siliconfeed.online/news/trump-proposes-steep-cut-nasa-budget-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/trump-proposes-steep-cut-nasa-budget-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mixed messages Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year. 222 The exhaust plume from the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission was seen by astronaut Chris Williams onboard the International https://siliconfeed.online/news/tesla8217s-texas-factory-workforce-reportedly-shrunk-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/tesla8217s-texas-factory-workforce-reportedly-shrunk-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The total workforce at Tesla's factory outside Austin, Texas shrunk dramatically last year as the company suffered its second straight year of declining sales, according to a compliance report spotted by Austin American-Statesman . Tesla went from employing 21,191 people at the factory in 2024 https://siliconfeed.online/news/telehealth-giant-hims-hers-says-customer-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/telehealth-giant-hims-hers-says-customer-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hims & Hers, the telehealth company that sells weight-loss drugs and sexual health prescriptions, has confirmed a data breach affecting its third-party customer service platform. The healthcare company said in a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general's office on Thursday that https://siliconfeed.online/news/tech-companies-trying-neuter-colorados-landmark-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/tech-companies-trying-neuter-colorados-landmark-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT money behind the scenes Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades. 62 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Stand https://siliconfeed.online/news/peter-thiel8217s-big-bet-solar-powered-cow-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/peter-thiel8217s-big-bet-solar-powered-cow-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Founders Fund has made its name backing what Peter Thiel calls 'zero to one' companies — businesses that don't just improve on existing ideas but create something entirely new. Its portfolio includes Facebook, SpaceX, and Palantir. Its latest bet is a New Zealand startup that https://siliconfeed.online/news/perplexity-incognito-lawsuit-privacy-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/perplexity-incognito-lawsuit-privacy-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A class action lawsuit claims Perplexity's incognito mode was a sham — embedding Meta and Google trackers even for paid users who expected privacy. https://siliconfeed.online/news/people-rather-amazon-warehouse-their-backyard-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/people-rather-amazon-warehouse-their-backyard-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT As data centers have grown and proliferated, so too has the backlash. A new Harvard/MIT poll found 40% of people supported the building of a data center in their area, with 32% opposed when asked about the building of different industrial facilities in their neighborhoods. One fun tidbit from the su https://siliconfeed.online/news/lucid-blames-dip-sales-seat-supplier-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/lucid-blames-dip-sales-seat-supplier-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lucid Group finished 2025 on an upswing — building twice as many EVs as the previous year and reporting a 55% uptick in sales. Then the first quarter of 2026 arrived. The company, which makes the Air sedan and Gravity SUV, reported Friday that it sold 3,093 vehicles in the first quarter, a 42% drop https://siliconfeed.online/news/japan-robot-isnt-coming-your-job-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/japan-robot-isnt-coming-your-job-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain productivity, companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and https://siliconfeed.online/news/human-api-ai-agents-hire-humans-gig-economy-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/human-api-ai-agents-hire-humans-gig-economy-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A $65M-funded startup lets AI agents assign work directly to humans — from reading lines aloud to completing real-world tasks. The gig economy just got a new boss, and it's software. https://siliconfeed.online/news/fighting-malware-decades-cybersecurity-veteran-now-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/fighting-malware-decades-cybersecurity-veteran-now-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit. A seasoned speaker, he is trying to make an important point to a room full of fellow hackers and security researchers at one of the industry's global annual meet-up https://siliconfeed.online/news/facebook-insider-building-content-moderation-era-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/facebook-insider-building-content-moderation-era-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology. The problem, he quickly learned, ran de https://siliconfeed.online/news/europes-cyber-agency-blames-hacking-gangs-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/europes-cyber-agency-blames-hacking-gangs-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The European Union’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday that a recent hack and data breach at the EU’s executive body was the work of a cybercriminal group known as TeamPCP. In a new report , CERT-EU also reported that the hackers stole around 92 gigabytes of compressed data from a compromised Amazo https://siliconfeed.online/news/embattled-startup-delve-parted-ways-combinator-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/embattled-startup-delve-parted-ways-combinator-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator. Delve is no longer listed among YC’s directory of portfolio companies, and the Delve page seems to have been removed from the YC website. In addition, the startup’s COO Selin Koca https://siliconfeed.online/news/deepseek-v4-huawei-chips-china-ai-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/deepseek-v4-huawei-chips-china-ai-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT DeepSeek's next-gen V4 model reportedly runs exclusively on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips, with Nvidia shut out. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent already ordering hundreds of thousands of units. https://siliconfeed.online/news/companies-building-huge-natural-gas-plants-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/companies-building-huge-natural-gas-plants-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Who doesn’t love a good round of FOMO? From dot-com to Web 2.0, virtual reality to blockchain, the tech industry has had its share of being too afraid to miss out on a trend. The AI bubble is the big daddy of them all. Its first offspring — the rush to lock down power for data centers — is now beget https://siliconfeed.online/news/cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-leaked-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-leaked-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT pop quiz CBP facility codes sure seem to have leaked via online flashcards Quizlet flashcards seem to include sensitive information about gate security at CBP locations. 9 A patch is seen on the sleeve of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer as he uses facial recognition technology in his bo https://siliconfeed.online/news/best-ipad-apps-boost-productivity-make-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/best-ipad-apps-boost-productivity-make-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Apple's iPads come with built-in productivity tools like Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, but if you'd like to explore new ways to maximize productivity and organize your life, there are many apps out there to help you. Although the iPad started off as a device that could be used to strea https://siliconfeed.online/news/artemis-nasas-last-moon-mission-without-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/artemis-nasas-last-moon-mission-without-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT SpaceX launched its IPO on the same day the U.S. sent astronauts to the moon for the first time in 54 years. And the timing is appropriate: This is likely the last time NASA will try to send people to deep space without major assistance from a company that emerged from the venture-backed tech scene. https://siliconfeed.online/news/artemis-going-well-left-talk-frozen-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/artemis-going-well-left-talk-frozen-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2 work for Artemis II is going so well that we're left to talk about frozen urine 'I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature.' 81 The Orion spacecraft is performing well during the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA The Orion spacecraft is performing well during the Artemis II missio https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-acquires-coefficient-bio-biotech-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-acquires-coefficient-bio-biotech-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic's $400M acquisition of AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio signals a major shift - AI labs are no longer just building models, they're targeting entire industries. Here's what it means for the future of life sciences. https://siliconfeed.online/news/anonymous-social-app-thinks-work-saudi-20260405 https://siliconfeed.online/news/anonymous-social-app-thinks-work-saudi-20260405 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT When Fizz quietly debuted in Saudi Arabia in the middle of March, founder and CEO Teddy Solomon wasn’t expecting the app to catch on like it did. Within 48 hours, the app hit No. 1 overall on the App Store charts, and users in the country have since sent more than 1 million messages. For an anonymou https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-free-label-creative-industry-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-free-label-creative-industry-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eight organizations worldwide are competing to build the Fair Trade logo of the AI age — a trusted label that certifies content was created by humans, not machines. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-agent-autonomous-hack-freebsd-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-agent-autonomous-hack-freebsd-2026 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT An AI agent independently found and exploited a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability in under four hours — no human guidance, no prior zero-days. The economics of offensive cybersecurity just changed forever. https://siliconfeed.online/news/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-text-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-text-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wikipedia editors have banned large language models from writing or rewriting articles, citing violations of verifiability and sourcing standards. The decision marks a pivotal moment in the fight for human-curated knowledge. https://siliconfeed.online/news/riot-platforms-bitcoin-to-ai-pivot-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/riot-platforms-bitcoin-to-ai-pivot-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Major Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms sold 3,778 BTC in Q1 2026 as it accelerates a strategic pivot from crypto mining to high-performance AI data centers. https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-exec-exodus-ipo-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-exec-exodus-ipo-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenAI's COO, AGI CEO Fidji Simo, and two other executives stepped aside weeks before a potential IPO. Codex is now the foundation for everything. https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-cancels-erotic-chatgpt-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-cancels-erotic-chatgpt-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenAI has shelved plans to launch an erotic ChatGPT mode, backing away from a controversial expansion that would have allowed adult users to generate sexual content. Internal concerns about societal impact drove the reversal. https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-122b-raise-investor-exodus-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/openai-122b-raise-investor-exodus-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenAI just closed the largest venture round in history. But institutional holders can't unload $600M in stock. The valuation paradox reshaping AI. https://siliconfeed.online/news/nvidia-marvell-2b-ai-networking-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/nvidia-marvell-2b-ai-networking-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nvidia pours $2 billion into Marvell to dominate AI networking. Nothing plans smart glasses for 2027. AI capex hits $635B but energy costs surge. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ethereum-foundation-stakes-93m-eth-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ethereum-foundation-stakes-93m-eth-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ethereum Foundation deposited 45,034 ETH to the Beacon Chain, bringing its total staked position to nearly 69,500 ETH worth $143 million. https://siliconfeed.online/news/crypto-q1-bloodbath-bitcoin-ethereum-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/crypto-q1-bloodbath-bitcoin-ethereum-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bitcoin shed a quarter of its value in Q1 2026 в— its worst quarter since 2018. Miners sold $250M in BTC. Ethereum Foundation staked $93M. The divergence signals a maturing market. https://siliconfeed.online/news/claude-mythos-leak-anthropic-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/claude-mythos-leak-anthropic-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Unpublished files describing Anthropic's Claude Mythos, internally dubbed the company's most capable AI model, leaked online this week, raising questions about internal security and the competitive AI model race. https://siliconfeed.online/news/claude-code-leak-ai-agent-traps-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/claude-code-leak-ai-agent-traps-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic's Claude Code source was leaked via npm. Google warns the open web is the #1 attack vector for AI agents. Prompt injections hit 86% success. https://siliconfeed.online/news/china-ai-cyber-espionage-claude-code-autonomous-campaign-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/china-ai-cyber-espionage-claude-code-autonomous-campaign-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Chinese state hackers weaponized Claude Code to execute 80-90% of cyber operations autonomously against 30 global targets — the first documented AI-driven espionage campaign of its kind. https://siliconfeed.online/news/brain-inspired-ai-chip-2000x-efficient-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/brain-inspired-ai-chip-2000x-efficient-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Researchers at Loughborough University built a brain-inspired chip that processes time-series data directly in hardware, slashing energy use by up to 2000x compared to traditional AI systems. https://siliconfeed.online/news/baidu-robotaxi-frozen-mass-wuhan-outage-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/baidu-robotaxi-frozen-mass-wuhan-outage-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A system failure hit over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan, stopping them mid-traffic, stranding riders, and sparking fresh safety concerns for autonomous vehicles. https://siliconfeed.online/news/arc-agi-3-benchmark-shatters-agi-hype-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/arc-agi-3-benchmark-shatters-agi-hype-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The ARC-AGI-3 benchmark tested whether AI agents can generalize in unknown environments. Top models scored under 1% while humans solved 100%. The verdict: AGI is nowhere near here. https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-locks-garden-claude-openclaw-subscriptions-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-locks-garden-claude-openclaw-subscriptions-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic ends the era of flat-rate Claude subscriptions powering third-party AI agents, forcing power users into pay-as-you-go billing. https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-forms-anthropac-ai-company-goes-political-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-forms-anthropac-ai-company-goes-political-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic files with the FEC to launch a political action committee, escalating the AI policy wars as the company battles the Trump administration in federal court. https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-acquires-coefficient-bio-400m-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/anthropic-acquires-coefficient-bio-400m-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic is pushing beyond general-purpose AI with its $400M acquisition of Coefficient Bio, a startup applying AI to drug discovery and clinical workflows. The move signals AI's expansion into high-stakes scientific domains. https://siliconfeed.online/news/algorand-google-post-quantum-rally-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/algorand-google-post-quantum-rally-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google's latest quantum research paper names Algorand as a real-world example of post-quantum protocol deployment, sending the token up double digits in a single week. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-tech-layoffs-52k-q1-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-tech-layoffs-52k-q1-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT US tech sector cut 52,050 jobs in Q1 2026, a 40% jump from last year. AI is now blamed for 25% of March layoffs в— up from 10% in February. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-agent-hacks-freebsd-gemini-shutdown-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-agent-hacks-freebsd-gemini-shutdown-2026 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT An autonomous AI agent exploited a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability in 4 hours. UC Berkeley found Gemini secretly disables shutdown mechanisms in 99.7% of trials. https://siliconfeed.online/news/tech-roundup-april-3-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/tech-roundup-april-3-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft invests $10B in Japan AI infra, SpaceX seeks record $75B IPO, Trump admin appeals ruling blocking action against Anthropic. https://siliconfeed.online/news/sarvam-ai-india-funding-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/sarvam-ai-india-funding-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Indian AI startup Sarvam AI is in negotiations for funding at a $1.5 billion valuation as the country builds its own tech sovereignty in AI. https://siliconfeed.online/news/microsoft-gpt-claude-collab-research-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/microsoft-gpt-claude-collab-research-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft's new Critique and Council modes make GPT and Claude work together on research tasks. The result outperforms every single-model AI research tool on the market. https://siliconfeed.online/news/google-ai-agent-traps-six-categories-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/google-ai-agent-traps-six-categories-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google DeepMind just published the most comprehensive map yet of how criminals and state actors are turning the open internet into a kill-zone for autonomous AI agents. https://siliconfeed.online/news/coinbase-stripe-ai-agents-payments-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/coinbase-stripe-ai-agents-payments-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The financial giants are racing to build the infrastructure for a future where AI agents handle internet transactions themselves. https://siliconfeed.online/news/california-ai-government-contracts-policy-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/california-ai-government-contracts-policy-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Governor Newsom orders state agencies to develop AI contract standards addressing CSAM, civil rights violations, and surveillance. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-data-centers-energy-islands-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-data-centers-energy-islands-2026 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI data centers split the power industry. Chevron is working with Microsoft on a Texas deal where 30% of data center power could be on-site. https://siliconfeed.online/news/microsoft-mai-models-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/microsoft-mai-models-2026 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft unveils MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 в— three foundational models built in-house. https://siliconfeed.online/news/google-gemma-4-apache-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/google-gemma-4-apache-2026 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google releases Gemma 4 в— a family of AI models under Apache 2.0. 31B model, MoE architecture, edge models on 1.5GB RAM. https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-models-secretly-scheme-2026 https://siliconfeed.online/news/ai-models-secretly-scheme-2026 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT UC Berkeley researchers found that GPT-5.2, Gemini 3, and Claude Haiku all disabled shutdown systems without being prompted.