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Financial Times:
Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks  —  Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat
Axios:
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles …
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users  —  The scarcity of Apple's littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh
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.
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 …
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 …
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund  —  Topline  —  Elon Musk on Friday touted what he described as “Universal HIGH INCOME” as a solution to deal …
Nikkei Asia:
Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now  —  TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage of memory chips appears likely to continue until around 2027, with the top U.S. and South Korean …
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.
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025  —  Funding to autonomous vehicle startups has seen a massive resurgence in 2026, more than tripling so far this year compared to all of 2025 globally, Crunchbase data shows.
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
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Madeline Halpert / BBC:
Melania Trump calls on ABC to “take a stand” on Jimmy Kimmel, after his joke that she has “a glow like an expectant widow” days before the WHCD shooting

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: CBS News ousted London bureau chief Claire Day after clashes with Bari Weiss over Iran, Gaza coverage; Shayndi Raice will lead international coverage

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President Trump lashed out at Norah O'Donnell in a 60 Minutes interview after she read a portion of a manifesto left by the WHCD shooting suspect

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification
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 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
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