| 4:35 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity |
| 4:21 PM • | Cory Schouten / Semafor: Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 |
| 4:11 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI rolls out cybersecurity-focused model GPT-5.4-Cyber to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program, a week after Anthropic announced Mythos |
| 3:40 PM • | Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor |
| 3:20 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week |
| 3:01 PM • | Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Nvidia stock rose 18%+ over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 |
| 2:20 PM • | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M |
| 2:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate |
| 1:50 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks |
| 1:15 PM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets |
| 12:55 PM • | Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C |
| 12:40 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost |
| 12:15 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M |
| 12:10 PM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A |
| 11:55 AM • | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 |
| 11:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats |
| 11:40 AM • | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement |
| 11:35 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage |
| 11:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: AI cloud infrastructure provider Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 |
| 11:05 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users |
| 10:55 AM • | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction |
| 10:50 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months |
| 10:20 AM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare |
| 9:50 AM • | Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 |
| 9:20 AM • | Michael Roddan / The Information: Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading |
| 8:40 AM • | Katie Drummond / Wired: Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir employee Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, super PAC Leading the Future opposing his run, and more |
| 8:18 AM • | Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B for Globalstar, or $90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones |
| 8:07 AM • | About Amazon: Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services |
| 7:55 AM • | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to $500M |
| 7:45 AM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Kraken parent company Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at ~$13.3B |
| 6:10 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity |
| 5:55 AM • | Financial Times: Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network |
| 5:45 AM • | Eric Levitz / Vox: OpenAI's new economic agenda is oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical, and largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs |
| 5:30 AM • | New York Times: US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses |
| 4:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 10%+ pre-market |
| 4:01 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15 |
| 2:20 AM • | Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that hasn't taken VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees |
| 12:40 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20, and delete all data on May 13 |
| 10:55 PM • | Politico: Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK's AISI tested it |
| 8:15 PM • | Jeff Tomich / Politico: Voters in Festus, Missouri, last week ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection, just days after the council approved a $6B data center |
| 7:55 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom Energy to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock |
| 7:35 PM • | Hadas Gold / CNN: The US DOJ charges Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, with attempted murder and arson |
| 7:15 PM • | The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, up from $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace in 2026 |
| 7:00 PM • | Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March |
| 5:45 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts |
| 5:20 PM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft raises prices of Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs |
| 4:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk |
| 2:00 PM • | Veronica Irwin / Transformer: Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not “to influence federal elections” but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI |
| 1:55 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox staff memo: Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation” |
| 1:40 PM • | Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon unveils the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds “simultaneously” for in-flight Wi-Fi |
| 12:45 PM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: Internal memo: OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google”, which overstates its “run rate by roughly $8B” |
| 12:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia “has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape” |
| 11:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Intel added $100B+ in market value and now has a $325B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy a fab in Ireland and join Terafab |
| 10:50 AM • | AI Security Institute: Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 |
| 9:50 AM • | Stanford HAI: 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more |
| 9:40 AM • | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure |
| 9:20 AM • | Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 |
| 8:50 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal |
| 8:36 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review |
| 7:50 AM • | Kate Knibbs / Wired: Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA |
| 6:45 AM • | Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities |
| 6:25 AM • | Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: Rockstar says “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demands a ransom |
| 6:05 AM • | Ryan Mac / New York Times: A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posts its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla, hitting 2M+ views; a verified @elonmusk Instagram account has yet to post |
| 5:40 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub |
| 4:50 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that has been used to blacklist investors |
| 4:30 AM • | Andy Kemp / Gallup: For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work at least a few times per year; leaders are most likely to see AI's impact as positive |
| 4:05 AM • | Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed |
| 3:50 AM • | Elizabeth Bratton / Financial Times: Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices |
| 2:05 AM • | Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a ~1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030 |
| 1:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; source: Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test his AI character to offer feedback to staff |
| 1:20 AM • | Ellen Thomas / Business Insider: Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote before April 15 |
| 12:35 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for one hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by rising agentic AI demand |
| 12:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise up to ~$2.2B; Victory Giant was valued at ~$37B on April 10 |
| 10:55 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised |
| 10:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta |
| 9:10 PM • | Jack Queen / Reuters: The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi |
| 7:50 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit |
| 7:40 PM • | Reuters: Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company |
| 7:15 PM • | Sam Altman: Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry |
| 6:45 PM • | Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 |
| 6:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B |
| 5:55 PM • | The Information: Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M |
| 5:35 PM • | Reuters: Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe |
| 5:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing |
| 4:15 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks |
| 3:50 PM • | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low |
| 3:10 PM • | Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept: Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE |
| 2:20 PM • | Ed Bott / ZDNET: Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more |
| 1:55 PM • | Joe Miller / Financial Times: Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD |
| 1:20 PM • | Anissa Gardizy / The Information: OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart in Latest Shakeup to Data Center Strategy |
| 12:40 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters |
| 11:50 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline |
| 11:05 AM • | Ben Sisario / New York Times: Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled |
| 10:40 AM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets |
| 10:00 AM • | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules |
| 9:15 AM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses |
| 8:15 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers |
| 7:55 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: YouTube raises YouTube Premium's prices in the US: Lite is $1 more at $8.99/month, Individual is $2 more at $15.99/month, and Family is $4 more at $26.99/month |
| 7:45 AM • | Frank Landymore / Futurism: Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the “For you” section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage |
| 7:35 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools |
| 6:45 AM • | Counterpoint Research: Apple led global Q1 smartphone shipments for the first time, with a 21% share in Q1 2026; overall smartphone shipments fell 6% YoY due to memory chip shortages |
| 6:20 AM • | John Sakellariadis / Politico: The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build “AI co-workers” into all of its analytic platforms |
| 6:10 AM • | Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: Hong Kong grants its first stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered from a pool of 36 applicants; they are set to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 |
| 5:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M |
| 5:00 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, vs. ~$35.2B est., signaling global chip demand stayed intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East |
| 2:00 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports |
| 12:50 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable MaaS models led to Qwen executive departures |
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