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Samsung is one of three companies that manufacture the world's memory chips. This week, it raised the price of its Galaxy tablets by $280 — because memory chips are too expensive. Microsoft's Surface laptops are up $500 since launch. Both cite the same cause: AI data centers consuming 70% of high-end memory production. The boom that was supposed to make software smarter made hardware more expensive.
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 introducing new account types designed to give kids and younger teens age-appropriate access to chat and games, the company announced on Monday.
The US DOJ charges Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, with attempted murder and arson
The man who allegedly threw an incendiary device at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is facing attempted murder and attempted arson charges, authorities said Monday.
Voters in Festus, Missouri, last week ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection, just days after the council approved a $6B data center
The rout of half the Festus City Council was fueled by a surge in voter turnout and widespread frustration with the data center approval process.
Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK's AISI tested it
BRUSSELS — Regulators in Europe have been left out of the loop as U.S. firm Anthropic restricts the release of a new, powerful artificial intelligence model.
Internal memo: OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google”, which overstates its “run rate by roughly $8B”
OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …
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. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon …
Microsoft raises prices of 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 is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
Xbox staff memo: Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation”
Microsoft is getting ready to address Game Pass pricing concerns. … Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma …
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 acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Bloch announced on Monday and OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
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 number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …
Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15
Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
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 letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that hasn't taken VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees
Jeffrey Yan turned down $100 million, airdropped billions to strangers, and can't travel without a bodyguard.
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.
Amazon unveils the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds “simultaneously” for in-flight Wi-Fi
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' ever-accelerating rate of improvement raises two particularly important questions for alignment research.
Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom Energy to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock
Oracle is poised to make a quick buck off an investment in Bloom Energy. — On Thursday, Oracle was issued a warrant to purchase …
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
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 AG invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken, as the Frankfurt stock …
A malicious Ledger Live clone on Apple's App Store seems to have drained $9.5M+ from 50+ victims on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and XRP from April 7 to 13
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users
Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to users in India.
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
Here's What To KnowUmberto Gonzalez /The Wrap:20th Century Studios Lands Theatrical Rights to Popular Roblox Game ‘99 Nights in the Forest’Danielle Abreu /NBC Bay Area:Roblox launching age-based accou...
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 announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design …
Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost
The release, available immediately in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground with no waitlist, marks the fastest turnaround yet …
OpenAI's new economic agenda is oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical, and largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs
The AI company released a set of highly progressive policy ideas. There's just one small problem.
Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 10%+ pre-market
Amazon.com Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar Inc. in a deal that would boost the tech giant's efforts …
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 will purchase at least 35,000 additional Lucid vehicles, designed exclusively for use as part of Uber's future global robo-taxi service
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models
Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on Tuesday launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed …
Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent data center capacity at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed …
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been exploiting to remotely plant malware for at least four months
Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months.
Intel added $100B+ in market value and now has a $325B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy a fab in Ireland and join Terafab
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 Memory Technologies (YMTC) aims to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed this year …
Nvidia stock rose 18%+ over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027
Nvidia stock is on a tear, rising more than 18% over the past ten days. It's the longest winning streak the artificial intelligence chip giant …
YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement
YouTube has been under a microscope in recent months for increased ad frequency during videos and livestreams, whether purposeful or not.
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 exchange Kraken has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said Tuesday …
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 lobbying firm Ballard Partners as it draws out its fight with the Pentagon, a new public document shows.
Nvidia releases Ising, which it says are the world's first family of open-source quantum AI models, aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction
Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading
Polymarket was already under pressure to curb insider trading when it launched a program late last year to support startups that sent trades to its prediction market.
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
CodeWall says it gained access to consultant's Pyxis platform using a username and password from public web code
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks
Anthropic's Claude Code has a new repeatable routines feature that works even when your Mac is offline.
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
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 sense. Make it make sense. … The United States' foreign router ban didn't make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.
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 attacked Iran, assassinating supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling on the Iranian people to rise …
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare
The startup behind the popular Claude chatbot and coding tool is eyeing a potential IPO as soon as this year
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
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
one from Anthropic and another from an independent gov research group. …
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
Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations …
Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.
Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, up from $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace in 2026
US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B
The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.
Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A
Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — Chad Rigetti has devoted his career to quantum computing—a phrase you've perhaps …
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M
Series B brings total funding to $68 million as brands rethink AI visibility — If you want to shape media strategy—not just optimize it—upgrade your expertise.
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
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not “to influence federal elections” but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI
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
could this be the needle to pop the AI bubble?Nathan Bomey /Axios:OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from MicrosoftDaragh Thomas /Benzinga:OpenAI Says Microsoft ‘Limited’ Its Reach, Slams Anthrop...
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
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats
Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M
Pillar, a platform that helps commodity-driven businesses (like those in metals, food, and airline companies) manage financial risk …
Sources: AI cloud infrastructure provider Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026
Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C
Glydways Inc., the robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, is in talks to raise an additional $250 million on the heels …
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 redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman's home …
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 Tuesday it would acquire Globalstar (GSAT.O) in an $11.57 billion deal, bolstering its fledgling satellite business …