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Meta Q1 2026: $56.3B Revenue, Business AI at 10M Conversations Per Week, and $145B CapEx That Spooked Investors
Meta posted its best-ever quarterly net income at $26.8B on $56.3B in revenue, but a capex guidance hike to $145B sent shares down 7% after hours. Business AI usage surged 10x in three months.
Node.js 26 Arrives: Temporal API On by Default, V8 14.6, and the End of Biannual Releases
Node.js 26 ships the Temporal API enabled by default — no more flags required — alongside V8 14.6, Undici 8.0, and a new once-per-year release cadence. One breaking change will catch TypeScript users off guard.
Amazon's Chip Business Hits $20B Run Rate — Jassy Says It Could Be the Next Nvidia, and Plans to Sell Externally
AWS custom silicon — Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro — has crossed a $20B annualized revenue run rate with triple-digit YoY growth. CEO Andy Jassy hinted Amazon will start selling Trainium racks directly to third parties within two years.
CVE-2026-41940: Critical cPanel Auth Bypass Is Being Actively Ransomwared — CISA Deadline Is Today
A CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in cPanel and WHM has enabled the 'Sorry' ransomware to compromise 44,000 servers. The CISA patch deadline for federal agencies is May 3, 2026.
Stanford AI Index 2026: China Has Closed the AI Performance Gap to 2.7% — While Spending 23x Less
Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index Report reveals the US-China model performance gap collapsed from 17-31 percentage points in 2023 to just 2.7% today. ByteDance's Dola-Seed-2.0-Preview trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 by a single Arena rank point gap, while China spends $12.4B vs the US's $285.9B in private AI investment.
TypeScript 6.0 Is the Last JS-Based Release — Microsoft's Go Rewrite (Project Corsa) Delivers 10x Faster Type-Checking
TypeScript 6.0 shipped March 23 as the final version of the compiler written in TypeScript. Project Corsa — Microsoft's rewrite of the entire TypeScript compiler in Go — is already in native preview and cuts VS Code's 1.5M-line type-check from 77 seconds to 7.5 seconds.
KKR Launches Helix Digital Infrastructure With $10B+ to Build AI Data Centers — Ex-AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at the Helm
Private equity giant KKR has secured over $10 billion to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI-focused company that will design, build, own, and operate data centers, power generation, and connectivity infrastructure. Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will lead it.
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): A 9-Year-Old Linux Bug That Gives Any Local User Root — No Race Condition Required
CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, is a local privilege escalation flaw in every Linux kernel since 2017. A 732-byte Python script reliably achieves root with no race condition, affecting Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, and virtually every other distribution.
SoftBank's Roze AI Wants to Build Data Centers With Robots — and List at $100B Before Year-End
Masayoshi Son is spinning out Roze AI, a robotics company that automates AI data center construction in the U.S., and is already preparing for a 2026 IPO targeting a $100 billion valuation. KPMG is on retainer. An analyst day is set for July in Texas.
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