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April 1, 2026, 11:25 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 …
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a “very accessible” Trump administration, and more  —  Apple's iconic CEO speaks exclusively with Esquire about fifty years of Apple history—and the future the company is continuing to create.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 JV in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC closed up 8.84%  —  Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant …
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.
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.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license  —  The controversy surrounding compliance startup Delve has gone from bad to worse this week.  Among the fresh allegations …
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 …
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 …
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
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan  —  The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence.  Now, can AI return the favor?
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.
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill  —  Quick Take  — CoinShares is set to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CSHR, following a $1.2 billion merger with special purpose acquisition company Vine Hill.
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.
Nicola M White / Bloomberg:
In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022  —  Elon Musk and the US Securities Exchange Commission told a judge they are heading toward a trial over the regulator's allegations …
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.

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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

Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Three independent journalists experiment with a 30-day bundle of their newsletters for $8.50, half the normal price, using a service called Trustfnd

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix averaged 3M viewers for its Opening Night MLB game March 25, a bit short of NBC and Peacock's MLB broadcast the next night, with 3.2M viewers

More News

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

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
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
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
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
More: TMZ.com, Hypebot, TechRadar, and The Decoder
LinkedIn: Pieter Haeck.  Bluesky: @claesdevreese.  Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.fr.  Forums: r/worldnews and r/neoliberal
Bloomberg:
Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with ~20x fewer resources than expected
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