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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 …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours — Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback Rate
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| 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 — Co-founder won't stand for re-election to the board, Netflix says in first earnings report since pulling out of Warner Discovery bid
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months — Delays to a swath of new US data centres threaten to slow the rollout of AI by the world's biggest tech companies …
| Qwen: |
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks — · 4355 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGING FACE — MODELSCOPE — DISCORD
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| 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.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become … | 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 — The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available …
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| 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.
More: Business Wire
| 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 … | 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's $2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exit has quickly become central to China's national security agenda — Beijing branded Meta's $2bn acquisition …
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| Financial Times: |
Uber agrees to buy an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus for ~€270M, which would bring Uber's total stake to ~7% — German delivery group's largest shareholder Prosus has agreed to reduce its stake over EU competition concerns
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| Abhinav Parmar / Reuters: |
Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% — India's smartphone shipments fell 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, marking their weakest quarterly performance …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled vesting date, for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale, from May to April — SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vesting date for shares awarded to employees to as soon as next week, according to people familiar … | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
China fines leading food delivery apps, including Alibaba and Meituan, a combined ~$528M, the largest fine for the sector since the 2015 food safety law — Chinese regulators fined leading food delivery platforms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., PDD Holdings Inc. and Meituan for failing to filter out unqualified merchants.
More: The Information, South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according …
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