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April 24, 2026, 12:18 PM
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Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months  —  DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class  —  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December.  They just dropped the first of their …
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South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T parameters, DeepSeek's largest model by that metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens  —  The company says its cost-efficient new V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind
Reuters:
Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model
ABC News:
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on Maduro's removal from office  —  The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture.  —  Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
Joe Wertz / Bloomberg:
France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting
Financial Times:
Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal  —  Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026  —  Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe.
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs  —  Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving”, performs “at a much higher level of intelligence”, and is more capable for Codex  —  A new class of intelligence for real work  —  We're releasing GPT-5.5, our smartest and most intuitive …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, a model designed to handle more complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the startup's upcoming “super app”
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible  —  Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employee, a first for the 51-year-old software giant, as the tech industry grapples …
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Alibaba says its Qwen AI model will be integrated into select car models from BYD, Volkswagen, and others, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands  —  BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …
More: Benzinga
Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026  —  Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16 …
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
President Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies  —  President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta
The Information:
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a nearly $900M loss in its past fiscal year on ~$770M in revenue  —  Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars.
Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets  —  Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between …
More: Reuters

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JD Knapp / The Wrap:
Former 60 Minutes managing editor Guy Campanile says he and his fired colleagues “refused to be accomplices in the destruction” of the news program

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as Xbox's “new north star”
Sydney Bradley / Business Insider:
Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions
Anthropic:
Anthropic says it has fixed three recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt change to reduce verbosity
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to cut 10% of its employees, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, trying to boost efficiency and offset its heavy AI spending
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