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April 27, 2026, 5:35 PM

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OpenAI:
Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI  —  Amended agreement provides long-term clarity.  —  The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies.
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Financial Times:
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025  —  Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing's investment rules  —  China has ordered Meta to unwind its $2bn acquisition …
@mingchikuo:
Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028  —  • Latest industry checks: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in attendance  —  The nine-person jury was seated on Monday in the high-stakes legal battle between longtime friends turned rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California.
Wired:
Will Knight / Wired:
Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners”  —  David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.”  —  David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence.
Bloomberg:
How Sergey Brin's $58M+ political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues  —  In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to beam solar energy to earth and is planning a 2028 demo  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space …
Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits  —  Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.  —  TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work  —  “We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” Google employees wrote.  —  Summary
Jer / @lifeof_jer:
Neil Hacker / Works in Progress:
A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, closely collaborating with TSMC and the US government, and more  —  By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.
Bloomberg:
Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content  —  Spotify Technology SA is now offering workout classes from Peloton Interactive Inc. to premium subscribers …
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom  —  Researchers show market accuracy comes from a tiny group of informed traders, not broad participation. … What to know:
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments  —  OpenAI published a five-principle framework on Sunday for the development of artificial general intelligence.

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