The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers (Wikimedia)

The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January…

Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $27M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Gable, which develops enterprise data coordination tech, raised a $20M Series A led by Crane Venture Partners, tak…

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff criticized its leadership in December (Financial Times)

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff crit…

How some UK parents created a "Smartphone Free Childhood" pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools (Megan Specia/New York Times)

How some UK parents created a "Smartphone Free Childhood" pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government wate…

A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far and plans to have 15,000 by 2030 (Lam Le/Rest of World)

A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far a…

Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is unsettling Silicon Valley's immigrant tech community, as tech companies tell employees on visas not to leave the US (Washington Post)

Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is unsettling Silicon Valley's immigrant tech community, as tech companies tell employ…

France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under AT…

Chinese AI startup Zhipu, which secured three rounds of government-backed funding in March 2025, launches a free AI agent, intensifying the domestic AI race (Reuters)

Chinese AI startup Zhipu, which secured three rounds of government-backed funding in March 2025, launches a free AI agent, inten…

An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals (New York Times)

An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been a…

As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even eleva…

A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity (Bloomberg)

A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sim…