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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.
More: The Citizen Lab, Wired, The Record, Cyber Security News, TechRadar, CyberScoop, Reuters, and CyberInsider
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong AI-Fueled Forecast Tops Estimates — Intel Corp. shares hit a record high after the chipmaker delivered …
More: TheStreet, International Business Times, Yahoo Finance, Taipei Times, Intel, Reuters, CTech, CRN, Financial Times, and CNBC
| Bloomberg: |
The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025 — The value of the US government stake in Intel Corp. has increased fourfold to hit a value of about $36 billion after the chipmaker's …
More: The Next Web and Irish Independent
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him 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 … | 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 …
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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 …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI continues to eat up the market's RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket.
More: SammyGuru, Android Authority, SamMobile, Ars Technica, and GSMArena.com
| Bloomberg: |
A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan has wrapped after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node-based workflow …
More: Entrepreneur and ComfyUI Blog
| Ian Duncan / Washington Post: |
Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job — The Department of Commerce had picked Anthropic researcher Collin Burns to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. — Summary| 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
| PYMNTS.com: |
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants …
More: Adyen, FinTech Global, The Paypers, Finovate, and American Banker
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states — ‘I am disappointed that states are being told to wait to address this critical issue,’ one GOP state senator said
More: The Economic Times and Axios
| 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 — It wasn't long after blue jeans, Hollywood blockbusters and Big Macs crossed the Atlantic last century that some worrywarts started fretting …
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| Jenna Russell / New York Times: |
Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation's first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.
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| 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 — Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using … | 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 — It's the first investment from the firm's new strategy focused on long-term investments in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI
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Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operationsFind
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The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025Find
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