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Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market — Amazon.com Inc. is in advanc

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February — Follow Ben Bergman …

Politico: Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban — The Commerce Department's Ce

Reuters: Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity — Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Mem

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50' and 85' sizes — Microso

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 — Make it make sen

Laura Bratton / The Information: Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use

New York Times: US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives — The authorities said a

CTech: US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B — The Israeli company's photonic c

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing

Stanford HAI: 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more — AI's influence on socie

Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed — Tuck

Ryan Mac / New York Times: A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post — A verified accoun

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March — CodeWa

Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi — Amazon Leo is trying to steal some of the spo

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities — The

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