Crunchbase: global VC funding reached $113B in Q1 2025, up 54% YoY, buoyed by OpenAI’s $40B deal; PitchBook says 77% of US deal value in Q1 2025 went to AI (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
45 years of Gundam history assemble at Uniqlo for new anime T-shirt line【Photos】Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a law criminalizing the “deceptive and dangerous” creation and sharing of deepfakes, including fake AI nudes of minors (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
Meta Nears Release of New AI Model Llama 4 in April: ReportAutomatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model for cybersecurity, claiming it outperforms others on the leading CTI-MCQ threat intelligence benchmark (Google Online Security Blog)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
Utah-based SchoolAI, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform used in 1M+ classrooms across 80+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (FinSMEs)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch providerAutomatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
A US federal judge decides Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026; Musk and OpenAI agreed to fast-track the trial last month (Anna Tong/Reuters)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (TechCrunch)Automatic / Editor's Picks [News]April 4, 2025
