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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications — OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company's science research initiative, and Bill Peebles … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.
More: The Information, CNBC, Bloomberg, and The Verge
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude — Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.
More: Anthropic, TechCrunch, The Register, PCWorld, MacRumors, The Verge, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Inc.com, The New Stack, MakeUseOf, Yahoo Finance, CNET, Neowin, Agence France-Presse, The Next Web, Quartz, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Investing.com, The Tech Buzz, The Verge, Yahoo Tech, Innovation Village, The Deep View, Business Wire, Gadget Review, Yahoo Tech, Crypto Briefing, OfficeChai, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Rolling Out, Engadget, Fast Company, Inc, TechJuice, and EdTech Innovation Hub
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LinkedIn: Mary Aguililla, Amol Avasare, Drew Bent, Tom Wentworth, Gianluca Brugnoli, Pradeep Sanyal, and Claude. Bluesky: @isolyth.dev. Threads: @claudeai
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Axios: |
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 …
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X: @boknowsnews and @mikeallen. LinkedIn: Keach Hagey. Bluesky: @flingjore.com. Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange
| 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 …
More: Washington Post, The Economic Times, Biometric Update, Blaze Media, MediaNama, Wired, and Cointelegraph
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, and @andrewducker@mastodon.scot
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/europe, r/privacy, and r/eutech
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation … | Reuters: |
Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later …
More: The Information, New York Post, and Hindustan Times
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than $50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in a funding round … | Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B — The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.
More: Kraken Blog, The Information, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, DL News, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, Blockonomi, and Coinpedia Fintech News
LinkedIn: Brandon Faulkner and Saurabh Sharma
| 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
More: Investigate Europe, TheJournal.ie, Implicator.ai, U.S. Catholic, AlgorithmWatch, Bloomberg, and Politico
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Forums: r/europe, r/BuyFromEU, r/Environmentalism, and r/climate
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor — Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts| 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| Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 … | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 — Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East.
LinkedIn: Matthew Jacobson and Natasha Mascarenhas
| 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 …
More: Business Wire, DL News, NewsBTC, Unchained, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, The Daily Upside, Crypto Briefing, and Dallas Business Journal
LinkedIn: Nicole Orlov and Leah Sorrentino
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 — Cerebras, a producer of chips that run artificial intelligence models, on Friday filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CBRS.”
More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
| The Information: |
More: Reuters, Crypto Briefing, The Information, and DigiTimes
| 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) …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and iPhone in Canada
| Martin Peers / The Information: |
In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board — Meta Platforms paid Broadcom $2.3 billion in 2025, Meta disclosed in a securities filing, a rare disclosure of how much tech firms pay Broadcom for help designing their AI chips.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data — Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.| Financial Times: |
SynMax: almost 40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays; major projects for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are likely to end over three months late — Delays to a swath of new US data centres threaten to slow the rollout of AI by the world's biggest tech companies …
More: Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Briefing, and Tom's Hardware
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview — Some podcasts are self-recommending on the 'yep, I'm going to be breaking this one down' level. This was one of those. So here we go.
More: FuTu News, The Economic Times, Transformer, South China Morning Post, and Dwarkesh Podcast
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape — - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.
X: @chribjel, @edzitron, @emilheap, @cryptopunk7213, @charlesd353, @tunguz, @chrishayduk, @tekbog, @nofil_ai, @luke_metro, and @beffjezos. Forums: r/accelerate
| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B — DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle …
More: Reuters, Implicator.ai, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, and Yahoo Finance
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