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Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing; it could reportedly seek a valuation of $1.75T+ and raise ~$75B — SpaceX has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI closed $122B in committed capital led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at an $852B post-money valuation, after previously saying the round would total $110B — OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 — Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes — A suspected system failure froze Baidu's robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10% — Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era — How a little-known yet highly influential management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic confirms it accidentally leaked part of Claude Code's source code, calling it “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach” — Anthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Financial Times: |
Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility” — US president says he would not consider the move unless Strait of Hormuz is reopened — Some content could not load.
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| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic — OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches to protect iOS 18 users from DarkSword, a hacking technique that silently takes over iPhones running iOS 18 — As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28 — American toy-making giant Hasbro has confirmed a cyberattack, and the company says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved.
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later in 2026 that will include basic features and require a subscription to unlock more functionality — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy.| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban their staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications — BRUSSELS — The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.
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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Perplexity shared its users' data with Meta and Google even in its Incognito mode, violating California's privacy laws — Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc …
More: The Decoder, Livemint, and Tech in Asia
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M+ in annualized revenue, up from $10M+ in Oct. — As more AI apps and agents shift to using multiple AI models, startups that help developers choose the right ones are gaining traction.
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| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon's “sponsored prompts” for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less — The early batch of ads running on OpenAI's ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks.
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi raises prices by $11.25 to $150 citing memory prices, after hikes in December and February, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 model for $83.75 — Prices are going up by over $100 in some cases thanks to those AI fools. … As of today, the price of the 16GB version …
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| Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: |
US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced — In mid-March, organizers for child safety groups across the country received emails from an organization called … | Laura Pitel / Financial Times: |
How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty” — Schleswig-Holstein's radical tech overhaul offers Europe a live experiment in ending dependence on US Big Tech
X: @ugambini. LinkedIn: Laura Pitel. Bluesky: @esmit-thefirewall …. Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers — One of the most influential investors in crypto wants a bigger slice of the burgeoning prediction markets space.
X: @vladimir_ct and @jeffjohnroberts
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a supply chain attack involving open-source project LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data — Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — Sona, which helps companies with workforce management, raised a $45 million Series B led by N47, co-founders Steffen Wulff Petersen … | Julia Hornstein / The Information: |
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 — Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million …
| Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico: |
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani lets city employees use TikTok, with some security guardrails, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns — The @nycmayor handle had been inactive since 2023 when former Mayor Eric Adams banned TikTok from being used on city government devices due …
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| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
Salesforce announces 30+ new Slack features, including meeting transcription and note-taking and an operator mode to complete multistep tasks on users' desktops — For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate. Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger …
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X: @slackhq and @salesforce
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts accepted that Meta's and YouTube's products have design defects, distinctive from what Section 230 was created to protect — The verdicts in last week's social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it's possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total — The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months — Your old email will still be available as an alternate address. … Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it.
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