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Workday's CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (798+ words) The Next Web In short:" Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning…...
Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories
46+ min ago (1009+ words) In short: On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major…...
You Tubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (963+ words) In short: Three You Tube content creators, specifically the company behind H3 H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging that Amazon bypassed You Tube's technical protections using virtual machines…...
BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform
7+ hour, 25+ min ago (660+ words) In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card…...
Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal
14+ hour, 43+ min ago (540+ words) Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the biggest transformation in its history at Canva Create on 16 April....
Volkswagen's MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles
13+ hour, 38+ min ago (710+ words) In short: Volkswagen's autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human safety operators by…...
Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1, 600 jobs
19+ hour, 47+ min ago (1090+ words) In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, alongside three partner agents built on the Model Context Protocol…...
Meta's Muse Spark is here " and it's closed source
19+ hour, 34+ min ago (1185+ words) In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14. 3 billion to acquire a stake in Scale AI. Rebuilt from scratch over nine months, the model is…...
Europe's first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb
22+ hour, 49+ min ago (520+ words) Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony. ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety operators onboard for now. Waymo is targeting London for Q4 2026. Verne,…...
Anthropic's most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher " so the company won't release it
18+ hour, 12+ min ago (1185+ words) The Next Web In short:" Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had…...