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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+  —  Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback Rate
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits
Politico:
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo”  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union's unveiling of a mobile app to check people's age online has quickly turned sour …
The Guardian:
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules  —  Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras  —  OpenAI recently struck an unusual deal to lessen its dependence on Nvidia's AI chips and potentially lower its computing expenses in the coming years.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks  —  Charles Schwab on Thursday introduced its long-awaited crypto investing product, making bitcoin and ether trading available …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; Chrome desktop and mobile users can now also search across tabs  —  Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience.
Megan Morrone / Axios:
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen  —  OpenAI announced a new series of AI models built to help life sciences researchers work faster.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Codex Desktop expands from coding into full productivity workflows.  — Automation can generate images, charts, and workflow outputs.
Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
Roblox will pay $12.5M to Nevada and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with the state over claims it didn't protect young users  —  Roblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12 million …
Reuters:
India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones  —  India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) …
Anna Tong / Forbes:
AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces  —  Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data.
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund  —  Supply chains are messy.  San Francisco-based startup Loop isn't content helping companies merely clean up their supply chains.
John Thornhill / Financial Times:
An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises  —  The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich

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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
A source and internal figures: Condé Nast forecasts $130M in Q4 US advertising, $35M+ below its goal; Condé Nast says the figures are “materially inaccurate”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Memo: MS NOW hires former CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid as its chief White House reporter

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Piers Morgan says Uncensored plans a live four-hour election night show from DC, noting his show is never live, making it a significant test for the channel

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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub

Earlier Picks

Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard:
OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences”
Bloomberg:
Memo: the White House emailed Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes
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