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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Int

Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi

Bloomberg: Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about 2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than 50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startu

Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc

Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond

Financial Times: Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised 500M+ — Group founded by former

Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the lar

Financial Times: Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met wit

Financial Times: SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months — Delays to a swath of new

Financial Times: Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% — German delivery group's larg

Siladitya Ray / Forbes: What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund — Topline — Elo

Axios: White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's ho

Emily Zemler / The Wrap: A look at Doug Liman's 70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated 300M — “Bitcoin: Kill

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When De

Anna Tong / Forbes: AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are b

Qwen: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks — · 4355 words · QwenTeam丨Translat

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games — Alibaba Group Hold

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies — Am

Bloomberg: Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a 2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth 100B — An early investment in SpaceX ha

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back — B

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a 20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to 26M — For th

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom — DeepL, a tra

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised 40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific — German agentic art

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile — Google announce

Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels — EXECUTIVE SUMMAR

George Winslow / TV Tech: IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit 294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit 117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit 78B, up 25.4% — The 13.9% pop was drive

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies lik

Bloomberg: Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model — The US government is preparin

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub — Mozilla is th

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursui

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to 12.3B, vs. 12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours — Netflix Inc. gave a for

Bill Bradley / Adweek: Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach 3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY — Netflix reveals ad sales pr

Robert Scammell / Business Insider: NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a 27M Series A led by Khosla — - Na

Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling — The

Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more — ZDNET's key takeaway

Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard: OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have cons

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Dec

George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more — The

Jessica Hill / Associated Press: Roblox agrees to pay 12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users — Roblox, a ga

The Information: Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise 3B+ at a 35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation — Chip startup Cerebras is plan

The Information: Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struc

Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled — W

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April — SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vest

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 — Claire Lomas