APRIL 26 — Apple’s highly anticipated privacy update comes out this week with serious implications for the digital ad industry. Chinese e-commerce site Jd.com is already paying salaries with the digital yuan. A new weedkilling robot can manage 20 acres per day as the pandemic accelerates robot adoption. And PE-firm Thoma Bravo is taking the cybersecurity company Proofpoint private for $12.3 billion as M&A activity in cybersecurity heats up.