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April 1, 2026, 7:10 PM
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Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing; it could reportedly seek a valuation of $1.75T+ and raise ~$75B  —  SpaceX has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10%  —  Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant …
Financial Times:
Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility”  —  US president says he would not consider the move unless Strait of Hormuz is reopened  —  Some content could not load.
Hema Parmar / Bloomberg:
Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic  —  OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload …
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December and February hikes, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75  —  Prices are going up by over $100 in some cases thanks to those AI fools. … As of today, the price of the 16GB version …
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors  —  Money manager's crypto investment unit will offer strategies designed for institutional investors
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an “active attack” on its protocol; Arkham data said over $250M had moved from Drift to an interim wallet  —  The platform halted deposits while it investigates suspicious activity and urges users to proceed with caution.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies  —  Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool's features
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers  —  One of the most influential investors in crypto wants a bigger slice of the burgeoning prediction markets space.
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.
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 …
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.
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, a day after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand  —  The investment will also go toward ongoing operations, it said  —  Microsoft is on track to invest $5.5 billion in cloud …
Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor  —  Ecommerce giant is trying to catch up with SpaceX's low Earth orbit internet service  —  Amazon is in talks to acquire …
More: Reuters
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.
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.
Pieter Haeck / Politico:
The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban their 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.
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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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New York Times:
Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson

Heather Bushman / Indianapolis Star:
Circle City Broadcasting lays off what staffers call a significant share of WRTV's staff, after buying the Indianapolis station from Scripps under an FCC waiver

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced

Earlier Picks

Casey Newton / Platformer:
The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts accepted that Meta's and YouTube's products have design defects, distinctive from what Section 230 was created to protect
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
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
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
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