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April 1, 2026, 10:40 AM
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic confirms it accidentally leaked part of Claude Code's source code, calling it “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.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI closed $122B in committed capital led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously saying 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.
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.
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.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later in 2026 that will include basic features and require a subscription to unlock 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.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches to protect iOS 18 users from DarkSword, a hacking technique that silently takes over iPhones running iOS 18  —  As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners …
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Iran says it will target US companies, including Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Tesla, in the Middle East from April 1 at 8pm IRST
Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico:
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani lets city employees use TikTok, with some security guardrails, 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 …
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.
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
Salesforce announces 30+ new Slack features, including meeting transcription and note-taking and an operator mode to complete multistep tasks on users' desktops  —  For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate.  Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger …
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 …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a supply chain attack involving open-source project 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.
Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Sources: Amazon's “sponsored prompts” for its Rufus AI assistant are yielding significantly lower traffic than traditional ads, but are more cost-effective  —  The early batch of ads running on OpenAI's ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks.
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
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 …
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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 …
Reuters:
India says foreign investment gains made before 2017 are exempt from its General Anti-Avoidance Rules, after a court required Tiger to pay $1.6B on a 2018 sale  —  India said it would not apply its strict tax evasion rules on foreign investments made before April 2017, easing concerns among global investors …
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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

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

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

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

Earlier Picks

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
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
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Google attributes the supply chain attack on open-source HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it tracks as UNC1069
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, which is <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast's price and meant for “high-volume video applications”, and recommits to video generation tools
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
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