Ukrainian hacktivists—say they destroyed 250+ Gaskar Group systems, wiped 47 TB of data, and stole employee details by hacking the Russian drone-maker’s servers. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Lucid Motors is launching a hands-free highway driving feature this month—allowing its EVs to autonomously assist on highways for safer, more relaxed travel. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Cyber defenses face new extremes: 700+ hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks hit in Q1 2025, with recent peaks at 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 Bpps—complex, automated blasts lasting under a minute, blocked by Cloudflare. 📌 Full story: Source: The Hacker News.

AI coding tools are moving into the terminal—bringing coding, debugging, automation, and natural-language commands directly to developers' existing workflow in the CLI. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Amazon has released Kiro, an AI-powered IDE that uses agentic workflows to generate specs and code via AWS Bedrock Claude models—aimed at turning “vibe coding” into maintainable, spec-driven development. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Google’s Gemini-embedding-001 is now available in the Gemini API and Vertex AI—offering top-tier multilingual text embeddings (2048-token limit, flexible dimensions) that lead MTEB benchmarks. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Liquid AI open-sourced LFM2, a family of edge-optimized LLMs (350M–1.2B params) delivering ~2× faster inference and ~3× faster training than competitors—designed for on-device use with hybrid architectures. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Google DeepMind released GenAI Processors, a lightweight, open-source Python library for building efficient, parallel generative AI pipelines using asynchronous streaming of inputs like text, audio, and video. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Meta’s FAIR team released UMA—Universal Models for Atoms—trained on OMol25, a dataset of over 100 million DFT-calculated structures. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Moonshot AI open‑sourced Kimi K2, a trillion‑parameter MoE model with a 128K token context window, excelling at code, reasoning, and agentic tasks—all at roughly one‑fifth the cost of competitors. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

World models help embodied AI—like robots—simulate environments internally, predict outcomes, and make decisions safely and efficiently. 📌 Full story: Source: MarkTechPost.

Tech leaders are urging the tech industry to monitor AI “thoughts”—meaning the internal reasoning processes of autonomous systems—calling for better safety checks, auditing, and transparency before deployment. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Open‑source release of the Asyncrats ransomware code is fueling a sharp surge in copycat attacks—security firms report a wave of new incidents based on the released payload. 📌 Full story: Source: The Hacker News.

Velveteen Ventures, a new Native American–led VC fund founded by Betsy Fores, has launched under Venture—focusing on early-stage startups led by underrepresented founders. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Mistral has open-sourced Voxtral—its first audio-capable AI model, available as a small and mini variant under Apache 2.0. It supports instruct-style audio input use cases. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Uber is partnering with Baidu to deploy thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East—adding to its growing suite of autonomous vehicle collaborations. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK to comply with new online safety rules—users will now need to confirm they're over 13 to access certain communities. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Rivian is rolling out a software update that replaces Mapbox with custom Google Maps in its EVs and app. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Startup Rwazi raised $12M in Series A to offer AI-powered consumer insights and intelligence tools for companies. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.

Apple commits $500 million to U.S.-based rare earth magnet producer MP Materials, including backing for a recycling line in California. Magnets to be produced in Texas—supporting hundreds of millions of devices by 2027. 📌 Full story: Source: TechCrunch.