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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, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, CoinGape, crypto.news, Reuters, Blockonomi, CoinDesk, The Information, Semafor, and Capital Brief
X: @zerohedge, @j0hnwang, @mayhem4markets, @thegeorgepu, and @dowdedward
LinkedIn: Faith Tan and Brandon Behring, Ph.D.
Bluesky: @ljkawa, @bancsutherland, and @peark.es
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.| 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 … | 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 … | 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.
X: @zeffmax
| 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 …
More: Hong Kong Monetary Authority, South China Morning Post, Reuters, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Nikkei Asia, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, and CryptoPotato
LinkedIn: Chris Zhang, Allan Song, and Winston Tse
| 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. Bluesky: @tyleraking.com, @knibbs, @neilturkewitz, @alexandrian, @thorbenson, @zdroberts, @andrewlevesque, @jvagle.me, and @brbarrett
| 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 …
More: Silicon Republic, Blue Tech Wave Media, Digit, The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Business Today, Benzinga, and The Information
X: @patrickmoorhead, @jukan05, and @edzitron
| 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.
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| 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, Associated Press, and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @patbits, @jonchristian.net, and @dryad.technology
| 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
| 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.
More: The Verge
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers — Anthropic PBC agreed to rent data center capacity from CoreWeave Inc. as part of efforts to handle increasing demand for its artificial intelligence services.| 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 …
More: Reuters, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Taiwan Semiconductor …, Proactive, Capacity, and Tech in Asia
| 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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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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