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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 …
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X: @panos_panay, @caro_milanesi, @peter_adderton, @apostructura, @edludlow, @kingtutcap, @defiantclient2, @amazonleo, @amazonleo, @tmfassociates, @joannastern, @spacekoala, @mweinbach, @rihardjarc, @trengriffin, @panos_panay, @panos_panay, @aaronburnett, @jackkuhr, @edludlow, @matthewstoller, @tmfassociates, and @dpoddolphinpro
LinkedIn: Peter Krawiec, Emil Protalinski, Jonathan Sauder, Globalstar, and Anshel Sag
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @mgsiegler.com
Forums: r/BlueOrigin, r/MDASpaceInvestors, r/Starlink, and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
More: PCMag, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Watcher Guru, Bitcoin Insider, Motley Fool, Proactive, Barron's Online, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Implicator.ai, The Apple Post, Investor's Business Daily, Newser, DatacenterDynamics, Forbes Middle East, iClarified, and Business Today
| 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 …
More: OpenAI, The Information, Gizmodo, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Simon Willison's Weblog, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, iClarified, Axios, and Wired
X: @miles_brundage, @morqon, @openai, @openai, @nrehiew_, @mattshumer_, @chatgpt21, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, Meta Newsroom, Broadcom Inc., CNBC, Channel NewsAsia, and Benzinga
| 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.
More: The Register, The New Stack, and Thurrott
| 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.
More: Claude, The New Stack, and The Decoder
| Bloomberg: |
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats — The US Treasury Department's technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC's Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting …
More: PYMNTS.com, American Banker, Axios, Bloomberg, and ZeroHedge News
| 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.
More: The Keyword, MobileSyrup, The Verge, TestingCatalog, Tom's Guide, Chrome Unboxed, CNET, PCWorld, Search Engine Journal, 9to5Google, Android Police, The Deep View, Android Central, The New Stack, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Engadget, MacRumors, Android Authority, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada, Thurrott, and The Decoder. LinkedIn: Parisa Tabriz
| Cory Schouten / Semafor: |
Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B in April, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 — The US crypto exchange Kraken has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said Tuesday …
More: Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, Bitcoin Magazine, and CNBC
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
| 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.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TheStreet, MacRumors, BleepingComputer, crypto.news, The Block, Stereogum, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and iPhone in Canada
X: @glove, @zachxbt, @glove, @zachxbt, @glove, @cointelegraph, @ochiakatsuki, @cointelegraph, and @deeze. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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| 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 …
More: The Register, PC Gamer, Slate, TechRadar, Implicator.ai, and Inc.com
X: @bcherny, @trq212, @petergyang, @hesamation, @om_patel5, @paul_cal, @daniellefong, @0xdevshah, @zoink, @marcospereeira, @benbajarin, @mweinbach, @hesamation, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @erikvoorhees, @grummz, @patrickmoorhead, @trq212, and @tengyanai. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 — Make it make sense. Make it make sense. … The United States' foreign router ban didn't make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.| 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.
More: Google for Developers, CNET, Ars Technica, Android Central, Neowin, iDiallo.com, Engadget, Search Engine Roundtable, The Hans India, Mashable, and Android Authority
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @polemicdigital.com
| 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 …
X: @d4m1n, @stevehou, @andrewcurran_, @stocksavvyshay, @steph_palazzolo, and @apples_jimmy
Forums: r/singularity and r/ClaudeAI
| 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 jumps by $280 — Some of these price hikes are absolutely massive, and perhaps worst of all, they suggest many new Galaxy devices this year will be costlier.
More: MacRumors, Android Police, CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, TechRadar, Android Authority, Neowin, Droid Life, SamMobile, SammyGuru, and PCMag. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M — Series B brings total funding to $68 million as brands rethink AI visibility — If you want to shape media strategy—not just optimize it—upgrade your expertise.
More: FinSMEs, Bluefish AI, Pulse 2.0, and VC News Daily
| CTech: |
US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B — The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.| The Information: |
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic's Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed … | 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 …
More: MediaPost, Investing.com, MediaPost, Inc, Axios, About Amazon, MobiHealthNews, and Amazon Web Services
| 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.
More: Anthropic. X: @scaling01, @tokenbender, @sethbannon, @bowang87, @anthropicai, @_nathancalvin, @mattshumer_, @janhkirchner, and @janleike
| 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.
More: Hiro, Benzinga, Axios, SiliconANGLE, San Francisco Business Times, Proactive, Unite.AI, Implicator.ai, The Next Web, and Engadget
X: @restivevc, @ben_glenney, @wesroth, @catboosted, @ryan_falvey, @fangyi11101, @ebloch, @himanshustwts, @rohanpaul_ai, and @hirofinanceai. LinkedIn: Ethan Bloch. Forums: r/technology
| 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 …
More: Microsoft, TheEnergyMag, Techstrong.ai, TechRadar, spiked, and The Information
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare — The startup behind the popular Claude chatbot and coding tool is eyeing a potential IPO as soon as this year
More: UPI, The Economic Times, Investor's Business Daily, Anthropic, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Octavian Florescu and Vas Narasimhan
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