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Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off...

The Verge • Apr 27, 2026 • Hayden Field
Technology Apr 27, 2026

Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch

Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more AI-aware iPhone.

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/ Comments U...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

The Philips Hue Sync Box 8K is 30 percent off

The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box 8K is a great gadget to buy if you want to put your Hue lights to good use while watc...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Mother's Day Deals on Smart Bird Feeders (2026)

These are some of the lowest prices we've seen on our favorite bird feeders with cameras. Save even more with our WIRED-...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI s...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Landmark Roundup Weedkiller Case

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/climate/supreme-court-bayer-monsanto-roundup-glyphosate.html Comments U...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27

Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

The Woes of Sanitizing SVGs

Article URL: https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

US Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data to Find Criminals

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/supreme-court-cell-data-geofence.html Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity d...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Dutch central bank dithces AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

Article URL: https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140634/dutch-central-bank-chooses-lidl-for-european-cloud/ Com...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members

Members had planned to release report that US is ceding scientific ground to China. ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

The Verge’s 2026 Mother’s Day gift guide

Whether it's managing a busy home or looking out for everyone around them, moms spend a lot of time every day caring for...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919028/canva-magic-layers-ai-replacing-palestine Comme...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs

One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word "Palestine" in designs. The Magic Layers feature - whi...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

"Why not just use Lean?"

Article URL: https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch U.S. software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate

Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not. ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Gateway manufacturer finally acknowledges issue, fails to mention "corrosion"

"At this time, further comments would be premature."

Technology Apr 27, 2026

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.”

Technology Apr 27, 2026

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

Today, I’m talking with Jennifer Scanlon, who is the CEO of UL Solutions. That’s Underwriters Laboratories – you k...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

The standard GPU utilization metric reported by nvidia-smi, nvtop, Weights & Biases, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Mo...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

Article URL: https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921377 Poin...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Amazon snaps up Oprah Winfrey’s podcast

Oprah Winfrey's video podcast, Book Club, and Favorite Things are headed to Amazon, according to reports from The New Yo...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership – OpenAI

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Microsoft to Stop Sharing Revenue with Main AI Partner OpenAI

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe

China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

Article URL: https://routerjockey.com/tim-cook-is-leaving-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4792...