Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (Business Insider)
Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams (Bloomberg)
A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)
A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)
Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was "historical in nature" and involves no government info (TechCrunch)
China's broadening Manus review raises doubts about the "Singapore-washing" model; sources: Meta moved 100+ Manus employees to Singapore in early March (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Meta stock falls 6%+ to a 10-month low after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
Sources: Apple's plans for a Siri reboot include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and Ask Siri and Write with Siri features (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)