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April 9, 2026, 12:25 PM
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year  —  Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18  —  Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced Stargate UK in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale  —  OpenAI said it is pausing its Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project in the UK, as it reins in ambitious spending plans ahead …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0  —  Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1., which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard …
Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly  —  A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of partners, similar to Anthropic  —  OpenAI is finalizing a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release to a small set of partners, a source familiar told Axios.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031  —  Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top …
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March  —  A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS  —  Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X's direct messaging system, X Chat, once again.
Reuters:
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years  —  U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Xeon chips, including Xeon 6, and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve efficiency  —  Intel and Google have expanded their partnership to advance the use of artificial intelligence-focused central processing units …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closed up 6.5%  —  Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico amend their lawsuit against the White House, alleging it has kept all three off press pool duty since Sept. 18 despite an injunction

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bedford Media plans to relaunch Life magazine in November as a print quarterly, following its closure in 2000, and will expand into short-form video and more

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta says it may delay its new commercial terms past Nov. 20 after publishers and politicians voiced concerns the terms could let it train AI on their content

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Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal:
A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as companies develop monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news
Jacob Trefethen / OpenAI Foundation:
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize $100M+ in grants in April, across six research institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research
Isaac Yee / CNN:
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, including classified defense docs and missile schematics
Antonis Pothitos / Reuters:
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta
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