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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 on April 15 — Follow E

Veronica Irwin / Transformer: Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be “used to influence federal elections” and is to educate the public on AI policy — The company's money isn

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 — The AI Security

Hadas Gold / CNN: Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson — The man who allegedly

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 — Anthropic PBC hired the lobb

Andy Kemp / Gallup: For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive — Employees report produc

Bloomberg: Intel added 100B+ in value and now has a 300B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy an Ireland fab and join Terafab — Intel Corp. has quickly become one of

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation” — Microsoft is gett

Hayden Field / The Verge: Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google” and overstating its “run rate by roughly $8B” — OpenAI's chief re

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 —

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 — OpenAI's newly app

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at 500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs — Microsoft

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 — As Mi

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 — OpenAI has

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock — Oracle is poised to mak

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive — As major news outlet

Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs 4.08, up 48% from 2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand — AI companies are rationing of

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 — Roblox is i

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 — People who do

Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom — Well known hac

Dina Bass / 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” — Shares of Dell Tec

Bloomberg: Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as 2.2B; the company was valued at 37B on April 10 — Victory Giant Technology Hui

Politico: Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK AISI tested it — BRUSSELS — Regulators in Euro

The Information: Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~1B, vs. 550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year — AI firms' voracious appet

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to staff — Meta is building an

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 — TOKYO —

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 — Antho

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors — World Liberty

Jeff Tomich / Politico: Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center — The rout of hal

New York Times: A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems — China, the U.S., Russia and others h

Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Ant

Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sun

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security — Presiden

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X —

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs 'doing all of the learning for the world', as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme d

tokenmaxxing is officially over Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_

20x sales for something growing that fast js a great deal for @SpaceX It will be immediately accretive given @SpaceX is likely coming to the market at over 50x sales Source: Cursor reached 3B in annua