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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Julia Hornstein / The Information:
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024  —  Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million …
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era  —  How a little-known yet highly influential management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.

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From Mediagazer

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi officials say a US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are looking for her captors; one outlet identified her as Shelly Kittleson

More News

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
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
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

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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in February 2025
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
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