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Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to ~70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security — Relationship is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to de-escalate — The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic …
More: Bloomberg, The Next Web, Mercury News, Barron's Online, The Verge, New York Times, MediaNama, Digit, Bloomberg Law, and Axios
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies — The National Security Agency has been testing the capabilities of Anthropic PBC's new artificial intelligence model to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging AI policy memo that outlines rules for national security agencies, including avoiding relying on one vendor — White House officials are preparing a wide-ranging artificial intelligence policy memo that outlines requirements for AI deployment … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's capex combined hit a record $130B in Q1, and it is set to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 — Meta stock drops on capex increase while Alphabet's cloud business grows faster than rivals Amazon and Microsoft
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| Wired: |
Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has distilled OpenAI models, Elon Musk says the claim is “partly” true — While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it's standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors' models. — While testifying on Thursday in federal court … | AI Security Institute: |
Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation — In April, our evaluation of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found that it represented a step up in cyber performance …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it — Starting with GPT-5.1, our models began developing a strange habit: they increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors.
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| Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: |
Samsung projects that the memory shortage will worsen in 2027 as customers are already placing orders for next year, leading to a wider supply gap than in 2026 — SEOUL — Samsung Electronics is warning that the global memory chip shortage will worsen next year as anxious customers …
More: PCMag, 9to5Google, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and The Verge
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
More: SamMobile, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Samsung Newsroom, blocksandfiles, Neowin, UPI, Fortune, The Korea Times, Dow Jones Newswires, The Straits Times, Benzinga, The Korea Herald, Korea Joongang Daily, and Bloomberg
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity — As AI-generated artists and tracks flood music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix rolls out a vertical video feed in its own Clips tab in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, the UK, and the US — The new ‘Clips’ tab shows, you guessed it, Netflix clips. … Netflix is starting to roll out a big revamp of its mobile app …
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| Financial Times: |
Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as $2,500+ wagers at odds of 35% or less, have a ~52% average win rate, vs. 25% for political bets — High rate of winning wagers likely to add to concerns that sensitive information can leak on prediction markets
More: Ars Technica and CoinDesk
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification — A powerful Senate committee backed legislation to require OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc. and other artificial intelligence companies …
More: Congress.gov, Engadget, NBC News, and Roll Call
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram is expanding its recommendation restrictions beyond Reels to photos and carousels, targeting accounts that post unoriginal content like tweet roundups — The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content — and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach.
More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Cord Cutters News, TechCrunch, and PetaPixel
| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation — Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new … | Gabe Gurwin / GameSpot: |
Sony confirms some digital PS4 and PS5 games require owners to do a one-time online license check “to confirm the game's license”, likely to combat refund scams — The problem appears to be affecting both PS4 and PS5 games purchased after March 2026.
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Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/LinusTechTips, r/GameFeed, r/PS5_Jailbreak, r/consoles, r/PlayStationForum, r/gaming, and r/PS5
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI — Elon Musk's X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to rollout on Thursday.| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities — Anthropic has published Claude Security today for Claude Enterprise customers globally, according to company materials shared with The Implicator.
More: ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, The Verge, and Claude
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 — Investors placed about $96 billion of orders for Meta Platforms Inc.'s bond sale, according to people with knowledge of the transaction …
More: Mercury News, The Information, CNBC, and Reuters
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: KKR has secured $10B+ to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company led by ex-AWS CEO Adam Selipsky that will develop and operate AI infrastructure — KKR & Co. has secured more than $10 billion to launch a company that will develop and operate artificial intelligence infrastructure … | Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users — Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app — an account, a way to pay, and an API token.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, securing 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 — OpenAI has met a key milestone for securing AI capacity in the US several years ahead of schedule, boosting the startup's ambitious plans for data center expansion.| Reuters: |
Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply — Strong demand for AI computing equipment in China has nearly doubled prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to about 7 million yuan …
More: Semafor, Tech in Asia, and The Next Web
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic unveils BioMysteryBench to test Claude's bioinformatics skills against human experts, and says Mythos solved ~30% of 23 questions that stumped experts — In this post, Brianna, a researcher on the discovery team, shares results from a recent bioinformatics benchmarking effort.| Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns — In a break from its walled garden approach, Meta is opening its ad ecosystem to third-party AI tools.| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A — Casa, a company founded by former Uber executives, says it uses artificial intelligence and a stable of handymen to take care of members' homes.
LinkedIn: Kira McCroden
| Frank Konkel / Nextgov/FCW: |
The US FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing that gives it a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical trial data, aiming to speed up drug approval — Through a new pilot program announced this week, the Food and Drug Administration will use artificial intelligence …
More: TechCrunch, Federal Register, Benzinga, and The Decoder
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate — The payments giant added support for Stripe's Tempo, Circle's Arc, Coinbase's Base, Polygon and Canton Network as stablecoins gain traction in global money movement.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round that would value it a $900B+, after previously resisting investor proposals at an $800B+ valuation — Barrage of Big Tech Earnings Beat Estimates to Mixed Reaction — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 5.55% Playback Rate
More: The Next Web, Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, Silicon UK, PYMNTS.com, and BMI
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to create AI and robotics company Roze in the US for building data centers, and may list it as early as 2026 at an up to $100B valuation — Masayoshi Son plots IPO for business named Roze as soon as this year — SoftBank is planning to create and list an AI … | Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, above $107.2B est., and Google Cloud revenue up 63% YoY to $20B, above $18.05B est.; GOOG jumps 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 29, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026.
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| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion — The deal includes a 505 MW gas plant and 1,600 acres in Ohio, offering over 1 GW power capacity for future AI and IT buildout.Sponsor Posts
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