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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's token cratered this weekend after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called on exchanges to investigate trading tied to its surging token.
More: CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, Protos, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Blockonomi, CoinJournal, Web3 is Going Just Great, The Coin Republic, The Merkle News, Bitcoin News, Blockchain.News, and Cointelegraph
X: @zachxbt, @crypto_bitlord7, @nicrypto, @aisarcore, @bscnews, and @ni_celeb
| Kimi AI: |
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License — We are open sourcing our latest model, Kimi K2.6, featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities.
More: Hugging Face, Implicator.ai, and The Decoder
X: @kimi_moonshot, @sammcallister, @johnbuilds, @zxytim, @sundeep, @vllm_project, @presidentlin, @mattshumer_, @huggingface, @yuchenj_uw, @kimmonismus, @crystalsssup, @hesamation, @chribjel, @casper_hansen_, @chatgpt21, @synthwavedd, @eliebakouch, @nrehiew_, @dhh, and @cryptopunk7213
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/singularity
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Adobe introduces CX Enterprise, an AI agent-based platform that aims to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and other functions — The software maker's new AI agents are aimed at getting ahead of the risk of artificial intelligence to its business| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents — Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people …
More: The Verge, Capital Brief, The Decoder, and Sherwood News
X: @kylebrussell, @phequals7, @erinkwoo, @deredleritt3r, @amir, @mweinbach, @presidentlin, and @yuchenj_uw. Bluesky: @glinden. Forums: r/accelerate
| a16z: |
A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others — Thrilled to announce our investment in a new media company called MTS (short for Monitoring the Situation).
More: The Information. X: @eriktorenberg, @tylermcbrien, @knowerofmarkets, @hopes_revenge, @packym, @a16z, @netcapgirl, @taylorlorenz, @dwr, @gavinpurcell, @mtslive, @balajis, @semaforben, @matt_slotnick, and @taylorlorenz. Bluesky: @davelee.me
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes — WhatsApp is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+, that lets users pay for customized icons, themes, ringtones, and more.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi's and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.
More: The Guardian, Associated Press, CNBC, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, State of California, and Reuters. X: @agrobbonta
| Danny Park / The Block: |
LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the $292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered $10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns — Quick Take — LayerZero said North Korean hacker group Lazarus is likely responsible for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
More: CoinDesk, The Record, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, DL News, CryptoNinjas, CoinGape, Blockhead, Cointelegraph, The Coin Republic, Protos, Unchained, Decrypt, Cryptonews, Blockchain.News, Bloomberg, crypto.news, The Crypto Basic, Blockonomi, NullTX, CryptoSlate, The Defiant, Coinpedia Fintech News, Yahoo Finance, Bitcoin News, and Bitcoinist.com
X: @layerzero_core, @banteg, @donnoh_eth, @suhailkakar, @hosseeb, @0xngmi, @chainlinkgod, and @joelkatz
| Washington Post: |
A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 — Summary — Kristine Kasubienski's donation appeared on viewers' screens four hours into the live stream of Nick Fuentes … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption — Deezer announced on Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform.
More: Deezer Newsroom, PCMag, Decrypt, The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, Billboard, TechRadar, and Music Business Worldwide
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable — ‘People think we have our back against the wall,’ but customers aren't replacing its offerings with AI, CEO says — Marc Benioff has some problems.
More: Benzinga, The Next Web, Salesforce Ben, The Decoder, and Blockonomi
| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Order: India's CCI sets May hearing on penalties after Apple failed to submit info on alleged app market abuse; Apple said it fears it could be fined up to $38B — Apple has not submitted data sought by India's antitrust body after an investigation found the U.S. firm abused its dominant position …
More: The Economic Times, AppleInsider, Crypto Briefing, Engadget, The Mac Observer, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Inc42, MacRumors, Digit, MacTech.com, and MacDailyNews. LinkedIn: Aditya Kalra
| Matt Haldane / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought $2.54B in bitcoin over the past seven days, its largest acquisition since November 2024; Strategy owns ~$61B in bitcoin — Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. bought $2.54 billion in Bitcoin over the previous seven days, marking the digital asset treasury …
More: Benzinga, Blockchain.News, CoinDesk, The Block, Decrypt, Pulse 2.0, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinGape, crypto.news, Blockonomi, The Merkle News, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
A Blue Origin rocket failed to correctly place a BlueBird satellite from satellite networking company AST into its intended orbit; ASTS falls 7%+ — AST SpaceMobile Inc. shares plunged in early trading on Monday after Blue Origin's flagship New Glenn rocket failed to correctly place a payload …
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