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April 29, 2026, 8:26 AM

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Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: the US district judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom”  —  Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …
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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services  —  The European Union's executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023  —  Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview.
Seema Mody / CNBC:
Pentagon Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing”  —  Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley confirmed to CNBC that the Department of Defense is expanding its use …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
A US judge rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's new trial request based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF asked to withdraw his request, which the judge also rejected  —  A federal judge rejected FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's do-it-yourself motion for a new trial based on what the former crypto king claimed was new evidence.
Mitchell Hashimoto:
HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says his terminal application Ghostty will leave GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages; Hashimoto is GitHub user 1299  —  I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.  —  Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day.  Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.
Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's instructions in Codex CLI contain a line, repeated several times, that forbids the tool from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures  —  “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely …
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year  —  Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech …
Jason Gale / Bloomberg:
Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis  —  An artificial intelligence system can spot pancreatic cancer long before it shows up on scans, raising the prospect of catching …
Alex Heath / Sources:
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be “a better partner to OpenAI” than Microsoft, high chip demand, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more  —  AWS CEO Matt Garman on why Amazon will “be a better partner” than Microsoft.  Also: His reaction to bubble fears …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model  —  The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model …
Luke Kawa / Sherwood News:
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, below $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% YoY to $134M, below $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ pre-market  —  Outside of event contracts, revenues were weak across the board.  —  Robinhood MarketsHOOD $74.21 (-2.29%) …
Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon:
AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more  —  Amazon Quick brings a personal AI assistant to your desktop.  Build presentations, intelligent dashboards, and more.
Todd Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Rogo, which uses AI to help lighten junior bankers' workloads, raised a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $2B valuation, up from $750M in January  —  Rogo, started by young bankers around a kitchen table in 2021, just won a multibillion-dollar valuation
Tim Harford / Financial Times:
A working paper uses an LLM to analyze political discourse on X, finding that anger is the dominant emotion expressed by US users, especially those over 65  —  There is a gap between the calm, rational decision-makers we often aspire to be and the overwrought, sentiment-tossed creatures we often are.
Bloomberg:
Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family  —  When Lee Kun-hee, the patriarch behind Samsung Electronics Co. died in 2020, his dynasty soon dealt with a crisis on two fronts …
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025  —  The Trade Desk also invested in Hightouch, which is now valued at $2.75 billion  —  Hightouch, a platform that uses generative AI …

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