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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters  —  An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.
Sam Altman:
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry  —  Here is a photo of my family.  I love them more than anything.  —  Images have power, I hope.  Normally we try to be pretty private …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing  —  Wall Street banks are starting to test Anthropic PBC's Mythos model internally as Trump administration officials encourage them to use it to detect vulnerabilities.
Jack Queen / Reuters:
The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi  —  A federal judge on Friday blocked Arizona from continuing its criminal case against prediction market Kalshi …
Clara Murray / Financial Times:
Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35%  —  Divergence reflects company's recent rapid growth owing to strong interest in its Claude Code products
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10  —  The Luna game-streaming service is getting an overhaul, with Amazon pulling the plug on game purchases and hosting third-party game stores and subscriptions.
Reuters:
Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe  —  Tesla (TSLA.O) on Friday said Dutch regulators had approved the use of its driver assistance software which handles most driving tasks on highways …
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 …
Matthew Martin / Semafor:
Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production  —  The Scoop  —  Know More  —  Notable  —  THE SCOOP  —  Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has dismissed Alat CEO Amit Midha …
Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:
UK activist investor Palliser has built a stake in Ajinomoto, urging it to raise prices for its ABF, a key material used to form advanced chipmaking substrates  —  Its shares surged in February and is up over 40% year to date  —  An activist investor has built a stake in a Japanese company …
Ed Bott / ZDNET:
Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Microsoft is making the Insider Program less complicated.  — Beta channel will be a more reliable preview of the next retail release.
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE  —  An ICE summons to get the user's identity failed.  Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
Bloomberg:
Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta  —  Three key players in OpenAI's massive effort to set up hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of artificial intelligence data center capacity are joining Meta Platforms Inc. …

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From Mediagazer

Peter White / Deadline:
Source: Turner Classic Movies, which airs films like The Blob, will be housed within Skydance Motion Picture Group, led by Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein

Muhammad Shehada / +972 Magazine:
On Israel's list of 170 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in the Gaza war that Israel alleges were terrorists, 59 are named without any proof

CNN:
A federal judge briefly extends access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico to the White House while he considers a longer-term ruling on President Trump's press ban

More News

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low
Joe Miller / Financial Times:
Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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
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
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