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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 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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

Agents

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 (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)

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

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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 (PYMNTS.com)

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

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 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

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 locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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

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 (Russell Contreras/Axios)

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

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 (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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

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 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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

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 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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

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 (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value (Wall Street Journal)

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

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 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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 details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

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 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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

Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb 'bet-like' products (Reuters)

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

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 (Financial Times)

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

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 (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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

ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised 30M at a 500M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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

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 (Bloomberg)

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

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 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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 —

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 (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

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 —

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 (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

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

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 (The Economist)

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

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 (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

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

France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)

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

Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity (Mimi Billing/Sifted)

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

Agents

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 (Daniel Ren/South China Morning Post)

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

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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 (Reuters)

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

India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 (Gopika Gopakumar/Reuters)

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

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 (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)

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

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 (CNBC)

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

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Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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

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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 (Jenna Russell/New York Times)

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

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 (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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

Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips (Ina Fried/Axios)

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

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 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

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

Hardware

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 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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

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Agents

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 (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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

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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 (Reuters)

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'

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 (Wall Street Journal)

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

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 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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

Source: Meta has a system in India to 'automatically restrict content, at scale' to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)

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

Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (Bloomberg)

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

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 (The Information)

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