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April 10, 2026, 11:05 AM
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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 …
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:
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets  —  Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share it with cities.  —  Waymo and Waze announced Thursday …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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From Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, who said this week she “practiced international transaction law”, hasn't passed the bar exam in the US

Alix Coutures / The Information:
OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
The BBC launches a 24-hour live streaming simulcast of the BBC News feed on YouTube in the US and UK, expanding to Poland and other countries in the coming days

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
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
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
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall “into the hands of America's enemies” and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT 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
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices
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