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Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses the idea of vibe coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable —

The Korea Herald: SK hynix says it has begun mass production of the 192GB SOCAMM2, a next-gen LPDDR5X low-power DRAM module designed particularly for Nvidia's Vera Rubin — SK hynix Inc. said Monday it

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a 10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial 6.2B raise in November, at a 38B post-money valuation — Company code-named Projec

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns — The Air Force on Monday canc

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes — WhatsApp is testin

Abram Brown / The Information: A look at Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis, an AI newsletter and research firm that expects $100M+ in 2026 revenue from subscriptions and AI supply chain research — For Dylan

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart cr

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Maria Davidson, who heads California Renewal, a pro-business political group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100M i

Amanda Mull / Bloomberg: A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at 10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low — The online appa

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI

Reuters: At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo — Dozens of Chinese-made human

Sneha Kumar / Reuters: Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU300M to AU2.7B-AU3B — Australia's NEXTDC

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze — Nearl

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a 45M Series B led by Georgian — Expo, the

Amy Harder / Axios: Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays — The world's largest data center p

Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says growing women's share on Tinder is his “primary focus” to stem user declines; Sensor Tower says 75% of Tinder users are men — Match

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures — Surveillance and

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models — Google is in talk

The Information: Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise 400M at a ~15B post-money valuation, up from 9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's 22B valuation from March 2026 — The predictions site Polym

Axios: Sources say NSA is using Mythos Preview, and a source says it is also being used widely within the DoD, despite Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk — - The department moved in Februa

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: the glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months — Also: Memory

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026 — Tesla is expa

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Clo

Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneerin

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A — Last y

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth — Co

Zack Abrams / The Block: An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts — Quick Take — An a

Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a “crazy” number of bug reports — Anthro

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record 21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from 5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 — Funding to a

Reuters: Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection — Hesai (2525.HK), China's leadi

Nikkei Asia: Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now — TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage

Iain Martin / Forbes: Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. — Paris-based Mist

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users — Th

Leo Marchandon / Reuters: The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech — The European Commis

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the inter

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has 100B AUM, with 26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 — Last year,

Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from 60 CPM to as low as 25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to 50K from 250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications — OpenAI is losing two of the architect

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports 510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of 87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 — Cerebras, a producer of chips th

Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share — Iva

Abhinav Parmar / Reuters: Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% — India's smar

Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: Figma stock closed down 6.84% on Friday after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 — Today Anthropic launched Claud

Bloomberg: Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers — Manycore Tech Inc. built a

Martin Peers / The Information: In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom 2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board — Meta Platforms paid Broadc

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst