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| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap Inc. is laying off roughly 1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, part of an effort … | 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, Silicon Republic, New York Times, The Information, Blockonomi, Infosecurity, The Decoder, TechRadar, Axios, 9to5Mac, Digit, Business Today, Mashable, iThinkDifferent, Help Net Security, Moneycontrol, Livemint, The Cyber Express, Cyber Security News, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Reuters, XDA Developers, CNET, DNYUZ, Implicator.ai, Semafor, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, iClarified, Gizmodo, Constellation Research, and The Hacker News
X: @openai, @miles_brundage, @nrehiew_, @openai, @andrewcurran_, @alph4betsoup, @morqon, @robtlee, @zauthinc, @mattshumer_, @hesamation, @chatgpt21, @fouadmatin, @paulsolt, @blackroomsec, and @0xocdsec. Bluesky: @seldo.com
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 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, local files, and installed apps, screen share, and more — After testing got underway in September, the “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
More: The Keyword, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Implicator.ai, Neowin, Tom's Guide, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, TestingCatalog, MobileSyrup, The Peninsula Newspaper, Chrome Unboxed, Search Engine Journal, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, Droid Life, CNET, PCWorld, TechCrunch, Android Central, ZDNET, and The Deep View
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its sales forecast for 2026 after it beat first-quarter revenue and profit expectations … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, noting that it has a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeover of Globalstar Inc. is poised to benefit one of the company's biggest rivals in hardware devices: Apple Inc.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that it may remove Grok from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.
More: AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Business Today, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Digit, Livemint, and The Indian Express
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| The Information: |
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing: customers now pay $20 per 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 … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; the company had a $380B valuation in February — Follow Ben Bergman … - Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion.
More: Financial Times, Reuters, Global Corporate Venturing, Tech Funding News, Blockonomi, Benzinga, and Bloomberg
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US 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.
More: Netgear, Quartz, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, PCMag, Engadget, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Telecompaper, PCWorld, and CNET
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| Financial Times: |
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make up lost ground with equity investments and vehicle order commitments — Uber has committed more than $10bn … | 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: MacRumors, The Deep View, The Register, The New Stack, and Thurrott
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Claude, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, and The New Stack
| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record high memory prices increase pressure on smartphone OEMs to reduce shipments and increase prices that dampen demand.
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Zengo, a crypto wallet provider, as the trading and investment platform expands its reach into decentralized finance.| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation — It's just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify's AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.
More: Mintlify, US Department of Justice, Salesforce Ventures, and The Verge
X: @aakashgupta, @matsiiako, @kevinzhang, @stuffyokodraws, @jenniferhli, @skeptrune, @hahnbeelee, @handotdev, @handotdev, @handotdev, and @handotdev. LinkedIn: Salesforce Ventures
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.| Rachel Scharf / Billboard: |
A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least for now, the court judgment is largely a symbolic victory, as no one has identified the anonymous internet users behind Anna's Archive.
More: TorrentFreak, Music Ally, and Music Business Worldwide
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China — ByteDance's cloud computing unit has made the company's Seedance 2. AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers …
More: Hello China Tech and MediaPost
| Bloomberg: |
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI — Jane Street Group, a trading firm, has taken an additional $1 billion stake in AI cloud services provider CoreWeave Inc. and plans … | Financial Times: |
Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign groups deploy millions amid growing public support for tighter regulation| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The European Union has unveiled an app to confirm users' age online, setting the standard for verification technology …
More: Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Politico, RTÉ, and European Commission
X: @wallstreetmav, @skylermzx, @tutaprivacy, @f4micom, @vonderleyen, and @vonderleyen
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