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Anthropic:
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, computer use, instruction following, and more; it features a 1M token context window in beta  —  Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet.  It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …
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LinkedIn: Thomas Li, Artificial Analysis, Cal Rueb, and Claude
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @mergesort.me, and @pekka
Forums: Hacker News, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
Financial Times:
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges  —  Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned  —  Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more  —  Following the puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20.  —  I/O 2026 will feature …
The Information:
Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark  —  Benchmark on Tuesday said it had hired Jack Altman, the founder of early-stage firm Alt Capital and HR software company Lattice, as its fifth general partner.
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue ads, which it introduced in 2024, after phasing them out late last year over fears they would erode user trust  —  Leading start-ups have recently embraced sponsors as they search for revenue  —  AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising …
Nathan Bomey / Axios:
CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …
TechCrunch:
Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch  —  Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual run-rate revenue …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation  —  Sequoia Capital leading funding deal for David Silver's start-up Ineffable Intelligence at $4bn valuation
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube services are fully resolved after a brief outage starting at ~7:45pm ET due to a recommendations system issue  —  If you're trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you're not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.
Bloomberg:
A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years  —  Government-backed AI investor MGX has a bullish plan to spend up to $10 billion annually over the next few years.
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
Palo Alto Networks reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.6B, vs. $2.58B est., and projects Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; PANW drops 7%+ after hours  —  The company's jump in quarterly profit was driven by continued demand for cybersecurity services  —  Palo Alto Networks lifted …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero  —  Nvidia Corp. sold off the last of its stake in Arm Holdings Plc, a chip technology company that it tried and failed to acquire five years ago.
Bloomberg:
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin  —  Palantir Technologies Inc. said it's moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver at a time when tech firms are headed …
Danilo Masoni / Reuters:
Raspberry Pi stock closes up 36% after rising as much as 42% on Tuesday, amid chatter that its products could benefit from low-cost AI projects like OpenClaw  —  Shares in Raspberry Pi (RPI.L) rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally after CEO Eben Upton bought stock in the beaten …
Deirdre Bosa / CNBC:
Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs  —  Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools …
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a “mass extinction event”; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B  —  When Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he rented a house in the Hamptons.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Paramount completes its $110B acquisition of WBD, creating Skydance and putting David Ellison in control of Hollywood studios, streamers, and cable networks

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Amazon's Prime Video acquires exclusive global rights to the Primetime Emmys under a six-year deal from 2027; sources say Prime Video will pay ~$15M per year

New York Times:
Disney is seeking an injunction in US District Court to block the FCC from conducting an unusual, early review of eight ABC-owned station licenses

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Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cloud infrastructure startup Render raised a $100M Series C extension led by Georgian Partners at a $1.5B valuation, and says 4.5M+ developers use its tools
Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg:
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged “creation and dissemination” of CSAM
Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg:
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak
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