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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Google introduces its eighth generation of TPUs, including the TPU 8t for training and the TPU 8i for inference, generally available later this year  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud division unveiled the latest generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU, a homegrown chip that's designed …
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
Google announces the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a revamped developer tool built on Vertex AI that manages the full lifecycle of AI agent fleets  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Google updates Enterprise tools for agentic AI at Next.  — A new Agent Platform streamlines automated work and security.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils Workspace Intelligence, which understands “complex semantic relationships” between data in Workspace apps to provide personalized context
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Sony AI says its autonomous ping pong robot is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a physical sport after beating some top-level human players  —  An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing …
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March  —  - Elon Musk's xAI recently announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor.  — The two companies have also explored …
New York Times:
SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B for the partnership
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX isn't acquiring Cursor immediately because the deal could delay its IPO; Cursor is no longer proceeding with its reported $2B funding round
CoinDesk:
Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him  —  World Liberty unfairly froze Sun's $WLFI tokens and threatened him, the lawsuit alleged. … What to know:
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft  —  Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took …
OpenAI:
OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs”  —  Codex-powered agents for teams.  —  Create an agent(opens in a new window)Contact sales(opens in a new window)
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Polymarket says perpetuals are coming to the platform and lets users sign up for early access; it hasn't specified whether crypto perpetual futures are included  —  Prediction markets platform Polymarket is expanding into trading of perpetual futures contacts, the company said Tuesday.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs  —  Threads is launching “Live Chats” to allow for real-time conversations during cultural events, the Meta-owned platform announced on Wednesday.
Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
Anthropic reverses changes to its website and support documents after users reported Claude Code appeared to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan  —  Executive Summary:  — In the later afternoon of April 21 2026, Anthropic removed access to Claude Code for its $20-a-month “Pro” Plans on various pricing pages.
Business Insider:
Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind  —  - A new AI startup, Core Automation, has entered the chat.  — Started by an ex-OpenAI researcher, it has …
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Vast Data, which makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data with a focus on AI applications, raised a $1B Series F at a $30B valuation  —  Vast Data announced a $1 billion funding round at a $30 billion valuation on Wednesday, with Nvidia among those backing the AI company.
Politico:
Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year  —  Spokespeople for the White House, DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Information:
Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation  —  Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising …
Molly Taft / Wired:
Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries  —  A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft …

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security

Brian Stelter / CNN:
WBD shareholders vote early Thursday on the Paramount deal, likely to be OK'ed; David Ellison will be in DC later for Paramount's event honoring the White House

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The FCC launches a review of TV Parental Guidelines, citing concerns that “gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children's programs”

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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