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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about risks from Anthropic's Mythos at an urgent meeting on April 7 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns …
More: The Guardian, CNBC, Quartz, Benzinga, Financial Times, Exponential View, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, CoinGape, crypto.news, Reuters, Blockonomi, The Information, CoinDesk, Semafor, and Capital Brief
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LinkedIn: Faith Tan and Brandon Behring, Ph.D.
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Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and r/politics
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B in 2025 while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the financial figures include xAI, which SpaceX acquired in February — SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said.
More: Reuters and Blockonomi
X: @anissagardizy8, @benjamindekr, and @pauvalida
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
YouTube raises YouTube Premium's prices in the US: Lite is $1 more at $8.99/month, Individual is $2 more at $15.99/month, and Family is $4 more at $26.99/month — The standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US. … YouTube Premium is getting more expensive in the US …
More: PCMag, 9to5Google, PiunikaWeb, Engadget, Moneycontrol, Thurrott, Android Authority, The Hollywood Reporter, Droid Life, The Streamable, ARTVOICE, Variety, Dexerto, and Nokiamob. Forums: r/technology
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports — The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable …
More: Quartz and Cautious Optimism
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools — Google says Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is now available on all Android and iOS devices, allowing enterprise users to read … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person Germany-based startup, became a top AI image generation competitor; sources: in recent months, it declined an xAI partnership — Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.| Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong grants its first stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered from a pool of 36 applicants; they are set to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 — Hong Kong has granted its inaugural stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC Holdings Plc and a joint venture of Standard Chartered Plc … | Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or form a dedicated team to work on the project — Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said … | John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build “AI co-workers” into all of its analytic platforms — Ellis revealed that the agency recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report …
More: Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Defense One, and Nextgov/FCW
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/technology
| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the “For you” section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage — Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, often appearing as large blocks …
More: Korea Joongang Daily and Associated Press
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| Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago — After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, The San Francisco Standard, and Boing Boing
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| Financial Times: |
xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections — Elon Musk's AI lab claims the regulations violate free speech protections — Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging … | Counterpoint Research: |
Apple led global Q1 smartphone shipments for the first time, with a 21% share in Q1 2026; overall smartphone shipments fell 6% YoY due to memory chip shortages — Team Counterpoint — Counterpoint research is a young and fast growing research firm covering analysis of the tech industry.
More: Benzinga, MacTech.com, and Reuters
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is “outraged” and exploring legal options — Apple today announced it will be permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S. in June, including Apple Trumbull in Trumbull …
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X: @mweinbach, @dylanmcd8, @macrumors, and @pamalamiam
Forums: r/Apple_Employees, r/baltimore, r/escondido, r/BaltimoreCounty, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M — Hours after the United States charged a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder with illegally smuggling billions of dollars' worth … | TechCrunch: |
Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses — Specs has long been teasing the next version of its augmented reality glasses. A new partnership with Qualcomm promises some movement in that department.
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules — Follow Eugene Kim … - Amazon's Project Houdini modularizes main server rooms, expediting AWS data center buildouts.| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains — Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, vs. ~$35.2B est., signaling global chip demand stayed intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 35% increase in quarterly revenue, suggesting global AI chip demand remained intact during …
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