Top stories today:

1. Apple exploring building humanoid robot for home
2. DALL-E adds image editing within ChatGPT for paying customers
3. Stable Audio 2.0 allows for 3-minute long text-to-music
4. Covid reduced global life expectancy by 1.6 years

0. Data and calendar

1. Apple exploring building humanoid robot for home, table-top home device with robotic display

Apple is looking for “next big things” after the iPhone:

• Hardware engineering and AI and machine-learning groups are leading the work.

• Apple leadership has not committed to either project.

• Company's future around home, mixed reality, and automotive, Apple told its top execs, before cancelling the Apple Car.

2. DALL-E adds image editing within ChatGPT for paying customers

4. Stable Audio 2.0 allows for 3-minute long text-to-music

• Available for free online, unlike OpenAI's Voice Engine, which is limited to select users.

• Not open source as of now.

• 44.1 kHz stereo quality.

• Release comes as Stability faces internal struggles, which led to founder and majority shareholder Emad Mostaque resigning as CEO.

5. Covid reduced global life expectancy by 1.6 years, largest disease-related change since 1990

The life expectancy cut was strongest in Latin America and almost non-existent in East Asia

6. Tesla increasing pay of AI team to stop OpenAI from poaching

7. NASA picks 3 companies to design lunar rover

• 2030 ETA for moon use.

• $4.6B in potential life-time value for the contracts.

• Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab.

8. Facebook's new full-screen video player looks increasingly like TikTok

9. Interesting videos, posts, and memes

10. Other headlines

AI

• Google denies it is weighing charging for AI-powered search features.

• YC Demo Day sees most startups using AI.

• Ghost Autonomy, which raised $220M, shuts down.

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Tech

• Pigment, Excel competitor, raises $145M at $1B+ valuation.

• Spotify to raise prices by $1-$2/mo in 5 markets, stock +8%.

• Microsoft, Quantinuum: 800x improvement in quantum computing.

• Waymo, Uber Eats kicks off self-driving deliveries in AZ.

• Canada's Brim Financial raises $85M Series C to fuel U.S. expansion.

• SK Hynix will invest $3.87B in IN plant.

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Tech & law

• WA state judge bars use of AI-enhanced video as evidence.

• Truth Social: 2 investors plead guilty of insider trading.

Biotech

• Pig kidney transplant patient healthy, released from hospital.

• SENS Research Foundation, Lifespan.io merging.

• Defense against predation linked to species longevity.

• Depression app from Otsuka approved by FDA.

• Metsera, secretive obesity startup, raises $350M.

Business

• Powell remains confident in rate cuts this year.

Crypto

• Wormhole initiates airdrop, trading at $11B market cap.

• Galaxy seeks to raise $100M VC fund.

• ETH ETF has SEC calling for comments, in standard path.

U.S. politics

• Trump's hush money judge declines to delay Apr. 15 trial over immunity.

• Trump's John Paulson fundraiser on Sat. expected to raise $30M.

• Trump, MBS spoke recently: sources.

• J6 megaphone rioter sentenced to 7 years in prison.

World

• Israel's Gantz calls for early elections in Sep.

• Houthis’ terrorist label may be revoked by U.S. if ship attacks stop.

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