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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, r/codex, r/singularity, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Socket: |
A supply chain attack compromised HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency into specific npm releases — Socket Research Team … Our analysis shows the malicious package deploys a multi-stage payload, including a remote access trojan …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
More: Reuters, Elastic Security Labs, Google Cloud Blog, Nextgov/FCW, KTVZ, and Axios
| 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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Threads: @imdavidpierce and @chriswelch
| 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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Forums: r/politics and r/redscarepod
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid 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.
More: CNET, 9to5Google, Neowin, Android Authority, and Engadget
| 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 …
More: Meta Newsroom, Meta, MediaPost, Digital Trends, CNET, Android Central, iPhone in Canada, TechRadar, Thurrott, TestingCatalog, MobileSyrup, and ZDNET
| 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 …
More: Wired, AM New York, Tubefilter, New York Times, Newsmax, Livemint, Inc.com, and WNYW-TV
| 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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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
Salesforce announces over 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 …
More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, ITPro, Implicator.ai, and The Economic Times
X: @slackhq and @salesforce
| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ — Nvidia Corp. is taking a $2 billion stake in Marvell Technology Inc. and opening up its system to allow Marvell …
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LinkedIn: Bill Vass and Rahul Todi
| 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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| 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
| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Letters to Sen. Ed 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Edward Markey, Senator Ed Markey, The Verge, Engadget, Axios, Fast Company, and Senator Ed Markey
| 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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X: @mark_k, @googleaidevs, @flowbygoogle, @vraserx, @googledevs, @bindureddy, and @officiallogank. Forums: r/Bard
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy — Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global, CEO Emmanuel Darras tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Tech.eu, Kestra, FinSMEs, Kestra's Blog, and The Next Web
| 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 … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security intelligence” for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation — AI cybersecurity firm Depthfirst has scored $120 million in funding to build a kind of “general security intelligence” that can defend against malicious AI.
More: depthfirst, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and SiliconANGLE
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hashed out FirstNet program changes with AT&T CEO — AT&T agreed to a deal worth up to $2 billion … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 — Autonomous ship startup Saronic said Tuesday that it's raised $1.75 billion as it ramps up production to meet mounting U.S. military demand …
More: Pulse 2.0, Saronic Technologies, SiliconANGLE, The Robot Report, Defense One, Axios, Investing.com, Austin Business Journal, and Barron's Online
X: @saronic, @ktmboyle, @sourceryy, @varungupta, @jtlonsdale, @mavrookasd, and @sebastiancaliri. LinkedIn: Aaron Berkey
| Lola Murti / CNBC: |
Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs — Shares of Snap climbed 14% Tuesday after shareholder Irenic Capital Management sent a letter to CEO Evan Spiegel outlining changes …
More: Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Reuters, Blockonomi, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, and Irenic. Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz
| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as “senior steward” — Three years after his official retirement, the Midas List investor is back as a partner making active investments at the blue chip Silicon Valley fund.| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief — Listening to a 100Hz sine wave tone for just 60 seconds could reduce motion sickness symptoms for up to two hours.
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