On this day, April 14

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2026

Semiconductors09/24/2026@DataCenterDesk
Broadcom Extends Meta Partnership for Multi-Gigawatt MTIA Custom Chips
3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United StatesBroadcom
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The release is dated "April 14, 2026" and says Broadcom^[1] and Meta "today announced" the partnership; Meta's newsroom post is stamped 2026-04-14T21:05:14Z and The Globe and Mail's GlobeNewswire copy "Tue Apr 14, 4:05PM CDT", after the US market close.
A multi-year deal through 2029 for Broadcom to co-develop and supply Meta's MTIA accelerators and Ethernet networking, starting with more than 1 GW and the industry's first 2nm AI compute accelerator; Hock Tan leaves Meta's board to advise it.

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2025

Disaster09/24/2026@ScienceDesk
M5.2 Earthquake Near Julian Shakes San Diego County
Harrison Park Fire Road, San Diego County, California, 92036, United States
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USGS^[1] event ci40925991, "M 5.2 - 5 km S of Julian, CA", origin time 2025-04-14 17:08:28 UTC, which is 10:08 a.m. PDT on 14 April, the time KPBS^[2] and Times of San Diego report.
A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.
Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk
Hagia Sophia's Dome Restoration
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
Starts 04/14/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.5 years ago
Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: dome restoration was "scheduled to commence on April 14, 2025"; no completion date has been set for the wider 50-year reinforcement plan.
Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.
AI10/12/2026@AIDesk
GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano Released
1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California 94158, United StatesOpenAI
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OpenAI's^[1][2][3] post "Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API" is dated April 14, 2025 and says "Today, we're launching three new models in the API"; TechCrunch's^[5] report is timed 10:00 AM PDT on 14 April 2025, the API changelog lists April 14, 2025, and the nano snapshot is gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14.
OpenAI releases GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano in its API with 1-million-token context, a June 2024 knowledge cutoff and OpenAI's first nano model, priced at $0.10 per 1 million input tokens.