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April 25, 2026, 4:35 PM
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations  —  Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit  —  A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern California …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more  —  The Vatican is racing to build digital defenses for the artificial intelligence era — and quietly positioning itself as a global referee of what's real.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use  —  The Tin Can has gone viral over the past year, mostly through word of mouth.  Now schools want to get even more of them in students' homes.
More: Gizmodo
Bloomberg:
Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix  —  The artificial intelligence boom has triggered a seismic reshuffling of global equity markets, with Taiwan and South Korea muscling past European nations one by one.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees  —  At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange.  (You might recall Project Vend …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140  —  Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …
More: Implicator.ai.  Forums: r/technology
@themidasproj:
The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future  —  The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it.

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Axios:
Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes

Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Email: the WH press corps won't be allowed on White House grounds Sunday due to the UFC fight; only press poolers will be allowed unless UFC gives credentials

More News

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg:
Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding
The Economist:
Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete

Earlier Picks

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
Sources: WH pushed out the Center for AI Standards and Innovation's head, Collin Burns, after just four days on the job due to his previous work with Anthropic
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
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
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