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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900 — The PS5 Pro will be a $900 console as of April 2nd. … Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally starting April 2nd.
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| Reuters: |
Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and publishes some documents online — Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and his purported resume to the internet.
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| TechCrunch: |
The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was “historical in nature” and involves no government info — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A hacking group backed by the Iranian government dubbed “Handala” …
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| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a “step change” in performance after a draft blog post in an unsecured data store revealed a Claude Mythos model — AI company Anthropic is developing and has begun testing with early access customers a new AI model more capable …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to debut two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7% — A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025.
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| Financial Times: |
US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm — New research suggests AI data centres will need much less memory than investors had bargained for — US memory chip stocks …
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| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will hit their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity — Follow Brent D. Griffiths … - Anthropic adjusted Claude usage caps during peak hours. — The changes show that the AI company is experiencing some compute strain.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to “take down content doxxing or threatening” DOGE staffers — The two have a complicated history, but were apparently on friendlier terms at the start of the Trump Administration.
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20+ initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack — ZDNET's key takeaways — Codex plugins aim to standardize repeatable AI workflows. — Marketplace plans signal a broader ecosystem and sharing strategy.
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, The New Stack, Unite.AI, InfoWorld, and Neowin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+ — Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old robotics startup founded by AI academics and former Google DeepMind researchers …
More: TechCrunch and The Information
| Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants — The company will fund new natural gas power plants, transmissions lines and battery energy storage — Meta Platforms agreed to a deal …
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| Emily Goodin / New York Post: |
The Trump administration launches the White House app, promising news “straight from the source, no filter”, with news, live, social, and gallery sections — The Trump administration announced the launch of the White House app on Friday, promising news “straight from the source, no filter.”| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft will lease Crusoe's 900 MW data center in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle and OpenAI reportedly withdrew, with the first building expected by mid-2027 — Microsoft Corp. will occupy a data center project previously earmarked for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI, scooping up 900 megawatts … | Bloomberg: |
Filing: Kalshi has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, which would make the platform more appealing to institutional investors — Kalshi Inc. has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, a feature that would make the prediction market platform …
More: Bitcoin News, Benzinga, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @privatechand, @joeuchill, @samblum, @themlg, and @bft.wtf
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI — SoftBank Group (9984.T) said on Friday it has secured a $40 billion loan through a bridge facility to fund further investments … | Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange — Toronto-based quantum company the first new Canadian tech firm to list on the TSX since 2021. — Toronto quantum computing firm …
More: Canadian Press, Bloomberg, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, DatacenterDynamics, HPCwire, and The Logic
| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sony Japan temporarily suspends fulfillment of orders for nearly all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to solid state memory shortages — The global shortage of solid state memory has claimed its first photographic victim, as Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment …
More: The Verge and Digital Camera World
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