Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing
Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing

In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-service cloud computing after selling its shoe business to American Exchange Group for $39 million. The company secured $50 million in convertible financi…

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and …

Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think
Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think

In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The feature sits alongside Page Match, which now works in…

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in c…

Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch
Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch

In short: Apple is testing at least four frame styles for its upcoming AI-powered smart glasses, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman published 12 April 2026. The designs include a large rectangular style similar to Wayfarer frames, a slimmer…

CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives …

Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live
Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live

In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The se…

Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch

In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add…

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion

In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The ne…

Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories
Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories

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 expansion of its hybrid range,…