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Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised 23.6B YTD, up from 7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.

John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more — “If o

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land

Financial Times: Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign g

Financial Times: Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make

The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested 30B — More banks are being invited

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru

Washington Post: Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks — Virginians previously embra

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group L

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc — The Europ

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals — Meta Platform

Molly Taft / Wired: The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy In

Bloomberg: Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional 1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI — Jane Street Group, a trading firm,

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for 39M after its valuation fell from 4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ — Ah, zeit

David McCabe / New York Times: WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers — WPP, Dentsu and Pu

Timmy Shen / The Block: X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada — Quick Take — Nikita Bier,

Jason Parham / Wired: X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn — The platform's large-scale crackdown o

Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations — BusPatrol says

Dom Cooke / Colossus: A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a 10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated 900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees — Jeffrey Yan turned

About Amazon: Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. a

Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay 11.57B for Globalstar, or 90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Tues

Anthropic: Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one — Large language models' eve

The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees

Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesi

Reuters: AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest 200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to 500M — Uber w

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June — Websites that

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more — After testing got u

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those c

David Ingram / NBC News: In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter t

Financial Times: Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network — When the US and Israel

Cory Schouten / Semafor: Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at 13.3B in April, down from a 20B peak in late 2025 — The US crypto ex

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Kraken parent company Payward is raising 200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at ~13.3B — Deutsche Börse

Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: Maine's legislature passed a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure — The

CNBC: Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board — Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday annou

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a 45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a 500M valuation — It's just one of

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total — Facebook, Instagram,

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20, and delete all data on May 13 — OpenAI has ac

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program — OpenAI is le

Eric Levitz / Vox: OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs — The AI company relea

Michael Roddan / The Information: Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading — Pol

Katie Drummond / Wired: Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir employee Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, super PAC Leading the Future opposing his run, and more — Alex Bores, a

Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 — Some of the

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week — Anth