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Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC closes up 13.93% — The iPhone maker and U.S. silicon giant will work together on chips for Apple devices. The Trump administration pushed for the deal.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/TechHardware, r/intelstock, r/wallstreetbets, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Alex Lekander / CyberInsider: |
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” — The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used …
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| Associated Press: |
A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams — Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams …
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| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors — Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch. … Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled …
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company's battle with the world's richest man … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers — Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment. In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available — Krishna Rao is navigating unprecedented growth, compute constraints and the idiosyncratic Amodeis
More: Crypto Briefing
| The Information: |
Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month — Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX's AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk's firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion.
More: MarkTechPost
| Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog: |
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage — For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.
More: Cyber Security News. X: @peterwildeford and @emollick
LinkedIn: Karthik Subramanian and Sam Rubin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government — The Trump administration is preparing to order US agencies to partner with artificial intelligence companies to protect networks …
More: Crypto Briefing, Raw Story, Politico, and PYMNTS
| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ — Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., filed for a US initial public offering …
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle …
More: NHTSA, The Next Web, Automotive World, TESLARATI, Autoweek, Electrek, and Reuters
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B — Anthropic PBC has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. to meet surging demand …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind, is in advanced discussions to raise … | Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Sony reports a $765M impairment loss due to Marathon developer Bungie's underperformance during its FY ending March 31, 2026; Sony acquired Bungie in early 2022 — Extracting value. — Sony has reported a $765 million impairment loss due to underperformance of Marathon developer Bungie during its last financial year.
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Forums: r/DreamStationcc, r/consoles, r/LastStandMedia, r/Gamingnewsandleaks, and r/GamesAreLife
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
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