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About Amazon:
Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services  —  Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon …
Reuters:
Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B for Globalstar, or $90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program  —  OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
CNBC:
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board  —  Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design …
Claude:
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor  —  Today, we're releasing a redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks  —  Anthropic's Claude Code has a new repeatable routines feature that works even when your Mac is offline.
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets  —  The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.
Politico:
Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK's AISI tested it
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Kraken parent company Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at ~$13.3B
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
A malicious Ledger Live clone on Apple's App Store seems to have drained $9.5M+ from 50+ victims on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and XRP from April 7 to 13  —  A malicious Ledger Live clone slipped onto Apple's App Store, draining millions from dozens of victims across multiple blockchains in a week-long phishing campaign.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity  —  A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week  —  Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations …
New York Times:
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses  —  The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman's home …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one  —  Large language models' ever-accelerating rate of improvement raises two particularly important questions for alignment research.
Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena:
Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra now costs $280 more  —  Some of these price hikes are absolutely massive, and perhaps worst of all, they suggest many new Galaxy devices this year will be costlier.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15  —  Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
Reuters:
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models  —  Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on Tuesday launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed …
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia releases Ising, which it says are the world's first family of open-source quantum AI models, aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction  —  Technology and computing giant Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Ising, the world's first open artificial intelligence …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20, and delete all data on May 13  —  OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Bloch announced on Monday and OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate  —  Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent data center capacity at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed …

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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

Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with 24-year veteran ESPN producer Nicole Noren, who quit over its gambling deals; her grandfather, father, and brother wrestled with gambling addictions

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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage

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Dom Cooke / Colossus:
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