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Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude  —  Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.  —  For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups  —  Canada unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031 and includes a new C$500 million …
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source  —  VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare.  As part of this change, all team members of VoidZero are joining Cloudflare, too.
Ted Chiang / The Atlantic:
A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be  —  Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more  —  An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex …
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Bloomberg:
Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B  —  Ramp, a corporate spending management platform, has raised $750 million in a new funding round at a $44 billion valuation …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s global chip supply will fall short of AI-fueled demand for years to come …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory  —  While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market.
Google Developers Blog:
Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025  —  Vibe coding needs infrastructure.  Supabase is trying to provide it.  —  The startup, which makes back-end tools …
Financial Times:
Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada  —  Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centres than citizens of other big economies …
Tom Dotan / Newcomer:
Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia  —  Do people want to watch the likes of Sam Altman, Trae Stephens & Palmer Luckey compete in a party game?  We'll soon find out.  —  ∙ Paid
Emily Mullin / Wired:
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons  —  Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Daniel Nishball / SemiAnalysis:
A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more  —  Space DC Total Cost of Ownership Explained.  Unpacking constraints from Terrestrial DCs and Chip Production.
Sarah White / Financial Times:
France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors  —  Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France's massive data centre build-out
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed Muse Spark API's release from April due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta now says it plans to release the API in June  —  The shifting timeline is a setback for Meta's ability to monetize its massive investments in building frontier AI models
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months  —  Quick Take  — Coinbase and Better have funded the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months.
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027  —  The company insists its robot investments are designed to support, not replace, warehouse workers.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum to get AI chatbots to scrape their posts and change their answers  —  Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica:
A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56%  —  The age of robotaxis, long the preserve of science fiction, is now a reality, at least in a handful of American cities.
John Kruzel / Reuters:
SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations  —  The U.S. Supreme Court backed the Federal Communications Commission's system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers AT&T …

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Sources: Nick Bilton is making $2.5M to lead 60 Minutes, or $1M more than Tanya Simon was paid for the same job before being ousted

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises

Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18%

More News

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips
Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times:
SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI
Bloomberg:
CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap

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