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April 20, 2026, 9:20 AM
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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.
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 14% pre-market  —  AST SpaceMobile Inc. shares plunged in early trading on Monday after Blue Origin's flagship New Glenn rocket failed to correctly place …
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  —  Update 4/19/26: Added additional information from Vercel that was disclosed after publishing.  —  Cloud development platform Vercel …
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 …
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 …
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.

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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Memo: ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro announces layoffs, mostly due to the NFL Network acquisition; sources: on-air personalities Karl Ravech and Ryan Clark are affected

Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox, and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games

MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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