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A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin — Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year — Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated …
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator — Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
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| Kevin Lincoln / Bloomberg: |
Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game — Artificial intelligence drove chess toward perfect play, leading to more draws at top tournaments. Now grandmasters are winning by making less optimal moves.| 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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A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was “rattled” on the stand — Plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier uses props and parables to challenge social-media giants, drugmakers and manufacturers …
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| Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: |
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected — The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers.
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| Newcomer: |
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more — Plus, Kleiner's big fundraise & a reckoning for social media … The Main Item — Industrial Policy Gets New Life as Tech Eyes Government Incentives
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| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers had been accused of misleading CISA's former acting director into taking a polygraph test — Former DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin previously told POLITICO the staffers were under investigation for “misleading” …
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| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label — But while Thursday's decision is a win for Anthropic, several lawyers and lobbyists said it will do little to lift the cloud … | Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: |
Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word — Bets decided on linguistic technicalities are exposing how hard it is to turn language into a binary market with payouts hinging on a single word.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 — At the height of the pandemic and the global shift to remote work, tech founders and investors alike flocked to Austin, Texas … | Reuters: |
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan — Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies … | Reuters: |
Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya raised $2.5B in a private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix's Solidigm, Cisco, and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production — Shares of Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya Technology (2408.TW) opened limit-up 10% on Thursday after raising about $2.5 billion …
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