X’s AI chatbot is now baked into the encrypted messaging app, though you’ll have to be a Telegram Premium subscriber to take advantage and chat to it.
The team-up shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. X owner Elon Musk backed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov after his arrest in France last year, and both CEOs have positioned themselves as defenders of free speech.
A mysterious livestream is revealing cast members one at a time — so far including Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, and Anthony Mackie. They’ll appear in Avengers: Doomsday, set to hit theaters on May 1st 2026, with Robert Downey Jr. making his return / debut as Doctor Doom.
It’s taking Marvel 13 minutes to announce each name so far though, so we might be here a while.
The operating system will still be open source, but Google is now moving all development to a private, internal software branch. It previously worked on some features, like the Bluetooth stack, in public, but now everything is going in-house to streamline development.
Confused? Android expert Mishaal Rahman breaks down what it all means at Android Authority.
[androidauthority.com]
The company — which owns Square, CashApp, and Tidal — is reportedly laying off over 930 employees and closing its open roles. It’s the company’s second recent layoff, after cutting similar numbers in early 2024. Dorsey explained the cuts in an email sent to staff and shared by TechCrunch:
None of the above points are trying to hit a specific financial target, replacing folks with AI, or changing our headcount cap. They are specific to our needs around strategy, raising the bar and acting faster on performance, and flattening our org so we can move faster and with less abstraction.
The $69.99 5,000mAh charger is just 9mm thin — only fractionally thicker than the OnePlus 13 itself. It attaches magnetically for wireless charging, but you’ll need one of OnePlus’ magnetic cases — which start from $24.99 — if you want to use the magnets with the company’s own flagship. It’ll work with MagSafe iPhones out of the box though, and there’s always USB-C to fall back on.
The Chinese automaker reports 777 billion yuan ($107 billion) revenue for 2024, comfortably topping Tesla’s $97.7 billion over the same period. The two companies shipped similar numbers of EVs last year, but add in BYD’s hybrids and it delivered more than double the vehicles Tesla did.
Last week the company unveiled car charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s, delivering 249 miles of range in just five minutes.
[bloomberg.com]
The Find X8 Ultra will launch in China on April 10th, joined by the Find X8s and X8s Plus. The X8s is a “compact” version of last year’s Find X8, though its 6.3-inch display is still bigger than an iPhone 16.
As for the Ultra, we know it’ll have dual periscope cameras, a flat display, and a huge battery, but it remains to be seen if it will ever make it out of China.
[weibo.com]
