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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 …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline  —  France is moving on from Microsoft Windows.  The country said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows …
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 …
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:
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 …
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.
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 …
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 tap data center capacity from CoreWeave Inc. as part of efforts to handle increasing demand for its artificial intelligence services.
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 …
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 …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled  —  Thirty-four states accused the concert giant of suffocating competition and driving up ticket prices.  The company denies being anything but big.

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From Mediagazer

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Some ad agencies say they have taken down ads that Meta's AI automatically changed, including by adding links, language translations, and AI-generated images

Esther Addley / The Guardian:
Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an “AI-powered” global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: CBS News names Jon Tower as the executive producer of CBS Mornings; he joined CBS News in 2014 and has been filling in as an interim manager of the show

More News

Seth Joseph / Forbes:
Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M
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
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

Earlier Picks

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims
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
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a “research preview”, generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use
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
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