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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
Shruti Rajagopalan / Get Down and Shruti:
As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions  —  India's AI Summit promises a revolution.  The electricity grid, the tax code, and the literal ground beneath the chip fab have other plans.
Financial Times:
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; a source says Meta's in-house AI chip strategy suffer technical challenges  —  Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI 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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns  —  Global investment firm Battery Ventures has raised $3.25 billion to fund new tech deals, including investments in software companies …
More: Tech in Asia
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.
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins  —  What to know: … Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure firm owned by Stripe, said Tuesday it has received conditional approval …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube fully restores its services after resolving after a brief outage starting at around 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.
David Singleton / flurries of latent creativity:
Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps  —  Dreamer is the name of the platform and company I started with Hugo, Nicholas and others a little over a year ago.
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing  —  Looser regulation and new investment are helping groups such as NeuroXess accelerate trials of ‘brain-computer interfaces’
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 …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B+ in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex  —  Amazon shares closed up more than 1% on Tuesday, snapping a nine-day slide that shaved billions off of its market cap.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Filing: Nvidia sold 1.1M Arm shares, worth ~$140M based on Arm's closing price on February 17, 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.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Stephen Colbert says CBS lawyers blocked an interview with Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico, citing the FCC's equal time guidance for TV talk shows

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says it is “prepared to engage” with WBD on takeover talks during a seven-day negotiating window, but doesn't say whether it will raise its bid

Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway reports that it purchased 5.1M shares of The New York Times during the December quarter; NYT rises 3%+ pre-market

More News

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
Palo Alto Networks reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.6B, above $2.58B est., and projects Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; PANW drops 7%+
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive

Earlier Picks

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands
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
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
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
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
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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