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Axios:
Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude  —  Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.
Politico:
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo”  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union's unveiling of a mobile app to check people's age online has quickly turned sour …
Will Canny / CoinDesk:
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B  —  The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks  —  Charles Schwab on Thursday introduced its long-awaited crypto investing product, making bitcoin and ether trading available …
The Guardian:
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules  —  Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape  —  - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor  —  Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras  —  OpenAI recently struck an unusual deal to lessen its dependence on Nvidia's AI chips and potentially lower its computing expenses in the coming years.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+  —  Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback Rate
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits
The Information:
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B  —  DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle …
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Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research:
China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share  —  Ivan is a Senior Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong.  He has more than 15 years of experience, with a major focus on mobile and network devices.
Reuters:
India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones  —  India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations  —  Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; Chrome desktop and mobile users can now also search across tabs  —  Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub  —  Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market.  But the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird …
Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
Roblox will pay $12.5M to Nevada and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with the state over claims it didn't protect young users  —  Roblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12 million …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
On a staff call, Bari Weiss defends firing Scott Pelley, saying the foundation of “trust and mutual respect” was broken after Pelley's outburst on Monday

Bloomberg:
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square plans to sell its stake in Universal Music Group, days after the Amsterdam-listed group rejected his takeover bid

Washington Post:
Two Stars and Stripes advisory board members sue the US Defense Department, saying new restrictions on the paper violate the First Amendment and federal law

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Anna Tong / Forbes:
AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces
Megan Morrone / Axios:
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen
Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard:
OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences”
Bloomberg:
Memo: the White House emailed Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more
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