Knowledge catalogue
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller
Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke
Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and EVP Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S the “first-class experience again”, and more — In an excl
Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML
Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu
Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas
Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon
Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~1B valuation; it raised a ~50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a h
Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from 690K in 2023 to 3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M — Nvidia
Bloomberg: A 16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling 14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for
Theo Baker / The Atlantic: A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin C
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec
PYMNTS.com: Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.O
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl
Bloomberg: Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence b
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati
Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatica
Ian King / Bloomberg: Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong A
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wan
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI contin
Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune: Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban; two-thirds say platforms took no action to remove accounts — If teenager
Bloomberg: The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth 8.9B — The value of the US government stake
Wall Street Journal: Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value — The president's address touched
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models — BEIJING — Chinese
Anthropic: Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees — At Anthropic, we're interest
Bloomberg: Anthropic says Google is committing to invest 10B now in cash at a 350B valuation and will invest another 30B if Anthropic hits performance targets — Google will invest 10 billion in Anthro
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI
Reuters: Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb “bet-like” products — Brazil has blocked prediction ma
Financial Times: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German s
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI — Mar
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised 30M at a 500M valuation — ComfyUI, a startup that helps cr
Bloomberg: DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out previe
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: DeepSeek V4 Pro costs 1.74/1M input tokens and 3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs 0.14/1M and 0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class —
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens —
Raphael Satter / Reuters: Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs — The U.S. Sta
The Economist: Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete — It wasn't long after blue j
Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi
Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting — France's foreca
Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known
Daniel Ren / South China Morning Post: Huawei plans to spend up to ~11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 — Co
Reuters: Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model — Huawei Technologies said on Friday its Ascen
Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters: India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India's central bank said
Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding — Instacart co-founder Apoorva
CNBC: Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD — Intel shares soared 24% on Friday, their
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states — ‘I am disappo
Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan
Matt Day / Bloomberg: Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Met
Ina Fried / Axios: Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips — Meta on Friday announced a deal to use Amazon-designed chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models. … - The new pact, which buil
Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past 5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher — Nvidia shares close
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — This week
Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access — The multiple investigations into xAI'
Wall Street Journal: Sam Altman apologizes to a Canadian town for not alerting police to the activity of a mass shooting suspect when her ChatGPT account was suspended — Sam Altman said AI company wil
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a 5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others — Series, a
Aroon Deep / The Hindu: Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers — India is now part of a
Bloomberg: Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition — Chinese regulators plan to re
The Information: Sources: Cursor hit 2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~900M loss in its last fiscal year on 770M in total revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed