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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios)

Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of S...

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles o...

Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% (Financial Times)

Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake ...

Financial Times: Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in Germa...

Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first ...

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising ro...

Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach $3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY (Bill Bradley/Adweek)

Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to re...

Bill Bradley / Adweek: Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reac...

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open li...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open l...

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $1...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12...

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and...

Bloomberg: A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app st...

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real&time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (Timmy Shen/The Block)

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view rea...

Timmy Shen / The Block: X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real...

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government&issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may requ...

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may ...

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico)

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three con...

Politico: Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional comm...

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (Konstantin Kakaes/Quanta Magazine)

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorpora...

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways ...

A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI&powered cameras on 35K...

Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35...

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop ...

Politico: Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic li...

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a...

Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $1...

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance f...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance f...

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma say...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says...

Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in&flight Wi&Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can ...

Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deli...

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthro...

Hayden Field / The Verge: Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthr...

Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal)

Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly r...

Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent ...

Shenzhen&listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg)

Shenzhen&listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an...

Bloomberg: Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong...

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad comp...

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talk...

OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, ...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which...

Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations; users must select the Pro model in the prompt bar (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3...

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP&led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP&led AI ...

Axios: Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska ...

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times)

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional...

Financial Times: Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at...

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg)

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campu...

Bloomberg: UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas...

TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% CAGR as it ramps up capacity; Nvidia has reportedly reserved most of the capacity (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS,...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: TSMC says its most advanced chip packaging tech, CoWoS, is...

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API t...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to...

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open&source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" f...

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature...

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI&enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI&...

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackli...

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that lets companies and individuals create robot&ready 3D maps using phone, 360&degree camera, and drone data (Janko Roettgers/Fast Company)

Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform that le...

Janko Roettgers / Fast Company: Niantic Spatial launches Scaniverse, a platform ...

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspe...

Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with M...

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's "looking forward" to answering the questions (Ana Faguy/BBC)

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversig...

Ana Faguy / BBC: Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Commi...

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's bu...

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI&native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's f...

Juby Babu / Reuters: Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first...

Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip com...

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip co...

An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)

An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was target...

Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News: An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was ta...

Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of sha...

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares ...

Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new ventu...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture w...

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Af...

Financial Times: Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as...

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (New Yorker)

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can...

New Yorker: Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted a...

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messag...

Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P ...

A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K&12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk)

A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K...

Lily Ottinger / ChinaTalk: A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into...

Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two&employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two&employee startup w...

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startu...

Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in&person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stol...

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers sto...

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in...

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, upda...

Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US i...

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost&cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into wor...

Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter: How Hollywood support staff are integratin...

VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college d...

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: VCs are covering expenses like rent for young ...

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd&party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)

Apple reportedly signed a 3rd&party driver, by Tiny Cor...

AppleInsider: Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD ...

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