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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 …
More: Snap Newsroom, Sources, Reuters, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, The Wrap, The Information, Road to VR, Quartz, MarketWatch, Capital Brief, The Verge, CNBC, Associated Press, The Independent, Barron's Online, Deadline, Digit, Newser, Yahoo Finance, Neowin, Variety, Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Implicator.ai, and Benzinga
| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 350%+ — Ah, zeitgeist: — Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.
More: CNBC, Allbirds, Inc., CoinDesk, The Information, Bloomberg, ZeroHedge News, and Sherwood News
X: @mikeisaac, @bullandbaird, @shaughnessy119, @mollyjongfast, @pitdesi, @negligible_cap, @kakashiii111, @dogetoshi, @agentchud, @doublewidecap, @dylandittrich, @thestalwart, @geiger_capital, @upslopecapital, @dylandittrich, @buysellsmb, @samro, @edels0n, @deepsailcapital, @firstadopter, @tracyalloway, and @negligible_cap
Bluesky: @blindeke, @ryancordell.org, @damonberes.com, @coachfinstock, @jakeweindling, @caseynewton, @ernie.tedium.co, @shiraovide, @bendwalsh, and @davidtaggart. Mastodon: @itamarst@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/Allbirds
| 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, TechRadar, Wired, Implicator.ai, Neowin, Tech Times, The Information, 9to5Mac, Blockonomi, Infosecurity, The Decoder, Axios, Digit, Business Today, Mashable, iThinkDifferent, Help Net Security, Moneycontrol, The Cyber Express, Cyber Security News, Livemint, XDA Developers, DataBreachToday.com, CNET, Reuters, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, iClarified, Gizmodo, Constellation Research, and The Hacker News
X: @openai, @miles_brundage, @nrehiew_, @openai, @alph4betsoup, @morqon, @robtlee, @zauthinc, @mattshumer_, @hesamation, @chatgpt21, @fouadmatin, @paulsolt, @blackroomsec, @0xocdsec, and @andrewcurran_. LinkedIn: Kevin Hiltpold, CISSP. Bluesky: @seldo.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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.| 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 … | 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.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Today, MacTech.com, Mediaite, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Digit, Livemint, and The Indian Express
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| 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: Meta Newsroom, DatacenterDynamics, Broadcom Inc., Benzinga, Quartz, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Blockonomi, Neowin, Business Today, DigiTimes, Mobile World Live, SiliconANGLE, Anadolu Ajansı …, Barron's Online, CNBC, and Reuters
X: @broadcom, @patrickmoorhead, @edludlow, @metanewsroom, and @patrickmoorhead. LinkedIn: David Berman
| 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 … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: Claude, PC Gamer, The Register, and TechRadar
X: @bcherny, @trq212, @petergyang, @hesamation, @marcospereeira, @benjamindekr, @mycoliza, @ns123abc, @tengyanai, @holdforscott, @sasuke___420, @daveshapi, @yunta_tsai, @mweinbach, @ctrlaltdwayne, @edzitron, @scaling01, @thestalwart, @ziwenxu_, @erikvoorhees, @0xdeployer, @vraserx, @hesamation, @om_patel5, @paul_cal, @grummz, @zoink, @trq212, @0xdevshah, @hesamation, @daniellefong, @benbajarin, and @patrickmoorhead. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
X: @boringmarketer, @d4m1n, @apples_jimmy, @8teapi, @stevehou, @stocksavvyshay, @andrewcurran_, and @steph_palazzolo
Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| 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: |
| 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 …
More: Indicator. Bluesky: @timmarchman, @couts, @katie-drummond, @davidgilbert, @mantzarlis.com, @lutzfernandez, @mantzarlis.com, @mantzarlis.com, and @mantzarlis.com. Forums: r/TrueReddit
| 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, 9to5Mac, Quartz, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, PCMag, Tech Times, CNET, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Engadget, PCWorld, and Telecompaper
Bluesky: @karlbode.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/hardware, and r/technology
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple VC offers valuing the startup at as much as $800B in recent weeks, up from $380B in its most recent round in February — Follow Ben Bergman … - Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion.
More: PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, Reuters, Blockonomi, Benzinga, Bloomberg, and Tech Funding News
X: @alexrkonrad and @nmasc_
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app, which requires showing ID, to shield kids from harmful content, setting the standard for verification tech — The European Union has unveiled an app to confirm users' age online, setting the standard for verification technology …
More: Politico, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, RTÉ, European Commission, and Telecompaper
X: @wallstreetmav, @skylermzx, @tutaprivacy, @f4micom, @vonderleyen, and @vonderleyen
| 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 scanning tool to support 30+ languages — In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.
More: Spotify, PCMag, Thurrott, The Verge, Android Authority, Mashable, and Telecompaper
| 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.
More: The Hans India, FinSMEs, The Block, CTech, eToro Group Ltd., Blockonomi, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, Cryip, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
| Financial Times: |
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on thousands of 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| 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, Salesforce Ventures, US Department of Justice, and The Verge
X: @aakashgupta, @matsiiako, @kevinzhang, @stuffyokodraws, @jenniferhli, @skeptrune, @hahnbeelee, @handotdev, @handotdev, @handotdev, and @handotdev. LinkedIn: Salesforce Ventures
| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first drop since mid 2023, amid memory constraints; only Samsung and Apple grew shipments, at 3.6% and 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record high memory prices increase pressure on smartphone OEMs to reduce shipments and increase prices that dampen demand.
| 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 … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platforms Inc. has been threatened with an interim European Union ban on policies that allegedly block rival AI firms …
More: The Economic Times, European Commission, Politico, and Channel NewsAsia
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn to TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for fun and connection. But experiences around messaging, screen time and cyberbullying vary.
More: Business Insider and Pew Research Center
| 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 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
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users — Gizmo, an AI educational platform, raised a $22 million Series A, CEO Petros Christodoulou tells Axios exclusively.| Washington Post: |
Survey: 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and 37% support data center tax breaks, down from 61% — Virginians previously embraced the facilities, but a Post-Schar School poll finds they are now almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants.| Politico: |
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban — The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation — tasked with evaluating U.S. and foreign AI models … Sponsor Posts
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