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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI closed a $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously announcing the round would total $110B — OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 — Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Claude Code's source code leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a “Self-Healing Memory” architecture, and more — Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude Code, to the public.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach” — Anthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people — Software maker Oracle has started telling employees that it's conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the move told CNBC.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected — Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin …
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later in 2026; the device will have basic features and require a subscription for more functionality — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy.
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| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
Salesforce announces 30+ new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop — For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate. Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger: replacing …
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| Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico: |
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns — The @nycmayor handle had been inactive since 2023 when former Mayor Eric Adams banned TikTok from being used on city government devices due …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months — Your old email will still be available as an alternate address. … Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it.
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications — BRUSSELS — The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws — Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect — Apple Inc. is testing a feature that would let Siri process multiple requests in a single query, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Julia Shapero / The Hill: |
Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies such as Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla in the Middle East on Wednesday at 8pm local time — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple says it will push out rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS — As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools — Following OpenAI's Sora exit last week, Google today said it's committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.
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| Sebastian Mallaby / Colossus: |
An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist — The inside story of how DeepMind's experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 — A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, with swappable nosepads and compatibility with more prescription lenses, on sale April 14 — Meta is also adding new translation and food-tracking abilities to all its frames. — The latest iteration of Meta's smart glasses …
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| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones — Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.
X: @emilylmullin and @wired
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes — A suspected system failure froze Baidu's robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack — Cisco has suffered a cyberattack after threat actors used stolen credentials from the recent Trivy supply chain attack to breach …
X: @dystopiabreaker, @daniellefong, @mattjay, @lukolejnik, and @gbrl_dick
| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump — Pakistan's new role as mediator between the US and Iran followed a long courtship of World Liberty Financial, Trump's crypto venture.
X: @umarfarooq_, @rezhasan, @business, @mishalhusain, @merrux, @hnadim87, @faseehmangi, and @muyaoshen
| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: 50% of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, such as Chinese companies Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership — Chinese artificial-intelligence firms have emerged as one of the most volatile pockets of Asia's equity markets … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect — The verdicts in last week's social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it's possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
Bluesky: @caseynewton and @jeffhorwitz
| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Letters to Senator Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so — The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph. But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions …
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| Laura Noonan / Bloomberg: |
Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its success in attracting crypto firms — Europe's financial supervision battles are usually fought diplomatically. A tersely worded statement here, a veiled signal there.
More: The Crypto Times
| Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: |
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY — SEOUL — South Korean exports hit an all-time monthly high in March, government data showed Wednesday, as companies rushed orders … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data — Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM.
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