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April 15, 2026, 9:10 AM
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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 …
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:
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
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 its 2026 net sales forecast from €34B-€39B to €36B-€40B  —  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.
David Ingram / NBC News:
Letter to Senators in January: Apple said it told X it may remove Grok from the App Store for not stopping the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes  —  In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.
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.
The Information:
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise's pricing, now charging $20 per month per user plus the computing capacity used, instead of $200 per month per user  —  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:
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
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Claude users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; Anthropic staff publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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 …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B  —  Accel, the venture capital firm that's backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity …
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 …
Laura Bratton / The Information:
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026  —  Uber's surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026 …

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