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April 20, 2026, 2:15 AM

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Axios:

Sources: the US NSA is using Mythos Preview; one source says Mythos is also being widely used within the DoD, despite Anthropic's supply chain risk designation — - The department moved in February to cut off Anthropic and force its vendors to follow suit.

More: The Information, Business Today, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Reuters, Yahoo News, NewsMax.com, Engadget, Tech in Asia, New York Times, and Politico

X: @andrewcurran_, @theobearman, @david_kasten, @andrewcurran_, @goldman, @deredleritt3r, and @gjmcgowan

Forums: r/Intelligence, r/politics, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/technology, and r/Anthropic

Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg:

Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a “crazy” number of bug reports

More: CTech and The Register

Bluesky: @wildebees and @stokel. Forums: r/Futurology

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data.

More: Vercel, Decipher, CoinDesk, The Information, Peridot Blog, The Block, Cyber Security News, The Verge, CyberInsider, XDA Developers, iTnews, and The Hacker News

X: @rauchg, @diffekey, @vercel, @k1rallik, @theo, @darkwebinformer, @ohryansbelt, @shiri_shh, and @vercel

LinkedIn: M Mohan, Sergio Alonso, and Abhishek Agrawal. Bluesky: @zackwhittaker.com. Mastodon: @DevaOnBreaches@infosec …

Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/webdev

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: the glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months — Also: Memory shortages could push back new Macs. — Apple's WWDC 2026 teaser provides a glimpse of the revamped Siri interface coming in iOS 27.

More: Livemint, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Digit, Digital Trends, Forbes, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Engadget, and 9to5Mac

X: @firstadopter, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Gennaro Cuofano

Forums: r/iphone, r/apple, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures — Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp's book “The Technological Republic.”

Andreas Rinke / Reuters:

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday that artificial intelligence for industrial use will require more regulatory freedom …

More: Bloomberg and Implicator.ai

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:

A profile of Maria Davidson, who heads California Renewal, a pro-business political group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100M in 2026 — Maria Davidson isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think of Silicon Valley power players.

X: @mariadavidson

The Information:

Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026 — The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including …

More: The Block, Reuters, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing. Bluesky: @srossmktg.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …

More: Digital Trends and Tech in Asia

Qianer Liu / The Information:

Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models — Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

More: Benzinga, Reuters, The Next Web, The Decoder, and Yahoo Finance. X: @ns123abc

Kieran Smith / Financial Times:

Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says growing women's share on Tinder is his “primary focus” to stem user declines; Sensor Tower says 75% of Tinder users are men — Match Group boss Spencer Rascoff says attracting female users is ‘priority focus’ in push to turn around flagship dating app

More: Wall Street Journal. X: @zeffmax. LinkedIn: Kieran Smith. Bluesky: @speciesbeing

The Korea Herald:

SK hynix says it has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, a next-gen LPDDR5X low-power DRAM module designed particularly for Nvidia's Vera Rubin — SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has begun mass production of a next-generation memory module designed for artificial intelligence servers …

More: DigiTimes, SK hynix Inc., Seoul Economic Daily, CHOSUNBIZ, and SK hynix has begun …

Sneha Kumar / Reuters:

Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU$1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU$300M to AU$2.7B-AU$3B — Australia's NEXTDC (NXT.AX) said on Monday it plans to raise A$1.5 billion ($1.07 billion) to accelerate the rollout …

More: Bloomberg and Finance News Network. LinkedIn: NEXTDC

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.

X: @htbroadley, @chrispainteryup, and @kevinroose. LinkedIn: Rasmus Faber-Espensen

Amy Harder / Axios:

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays — The world's largest data center project — backed by Trump allies and bearing his name — is stalled by delays and logistical hurdles that could stop it before it even starts.

More: Distilled, DatacenterDynamics, and Bloomberg

LinkedIn: Elena Schlossberg. Bluesky: @seniormcgeezer, @notthatadamlevine, @edzitron.com, and @masnick.com. Forums: r/technology

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

CBS News terminates 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley's contract; Nick Bilton says Pelley's “antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear”

Bloomberg:

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square plans to sell its stake in Universal Music Group, days after the Amsterdam-listed group rejected his takeover bid

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The Minnesota Star Tribune, which has ~495 staffers, plans to cut its workforce by 15%, or 65 jobs, via buyouts and layoffs, one month after winning a Pulitzer

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Amanda Mull / Bloomberg:

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low

X: @business and @amandamull

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian

More: The New Stack, Expo Blog, VC News Daily, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and Silicon Valley Business …

X: @ji, @ccheever, and @expo

LinkedIn: Emily Walsh, Aidan Potts, and LinkedIn

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:

Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze

Reuters:

At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026

More: Business Insider, Engadget, Benzinga, Electrek, Motley Fool, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and EV

X: @robotaxi, @tslafanmtl, @niccruzpatane, @sawyermerritt, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/Dallas

Abram Brown / The Information:

A look at Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis, an AI newsletter and research firm that expects $100M+ in 2026 revenue from subscriptions and AI supply chain research

More: Wall Street Journal and The Information

X: @linqingv, @omercheeema, @nickwingfield, and @jukan05

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Iain Martin / Forbes:

Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec.

Forums: r/KI_Welt, r/SoftwareDACH, r/TrueReddit, and r/ArtificialInteligence

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:

A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A

More: The Verge, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, Social Media Today, Washington Times, Law & Crime, Benzinga, Reason, The Indianapolis Star, and Reclaim The Net

X: @thefireorg, @robertfreundlaw, @krassenstein, @tyler_tone, and @tbvaleska

Bluesky: @robertscotthorton and @sircharlesanthony

Forums: r/NowInTech, r/technology, and r/apple

Zack Abrams / The Block:

An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts

More: CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Blockchain.News, Cointelegraph, TheStreet, The Coin Republic, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, Bitcoinist.com, The Daily Hodl, crypto.news, The Defiant, Blockonomi, Tech in Asia, and CoinGape

X: @kelpdao, @monetsupply, @delitzer, and @banteg. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:

Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth

More: PYMNTS.com and PCMag

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands

More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Cyber Security News, Forbes, The Indian Express, Cherry Creek News, CIO.com, CX Today, Constellation Research, and The Decoder

X: @benioff, @marcelolima, @levie, @vibemarketer_, @davemorin, @scobleizer, @chamath, @ivanburazin, and @adam_fish. LinkedIn: Shubham Kesar. Forums: r/technology