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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. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon …
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
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13  —  A malicious Ledger Live clone slipped onto Apple's App Store, draining millions from dozens of victims across multiple blockchains in a week-long phishing campaign.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
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.
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 redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome 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.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
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.
New York Times:
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 …
Hadas Gold / CNN:
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
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 acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Bloch announced on Monday and OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
Politico:
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.
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 AG invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken …
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg:
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 …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
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.
Dom Cooke / Colossus:
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.
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
OpenAI's new economic agenda is oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical, and largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs  —  OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial intelligence …

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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 editorFind
15 minutes ago
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 weekFind
35 minutes ago
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
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 2027Find
53 minutes ago
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68MFind
1½ hours ago
Bloomberg:
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 StargateFind
2 hours ago
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasksFind
2 hours ago
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presetsFind
2½ hours ago
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From Mediagazer

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Baltimore Banner parent The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism acquires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Block Communications to run it as a nonprofit

Ali Lyon / City A.M.:
Axel Springer says it received approval from the UK Department for Culture, Media, and Sport to proceed with its £575M deal to acquire the Telegraph Media Group

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen releases its February Gauge reports after a delay over a methodology dispute; NBCUniversal-Versant dethroned YouTube for the largest TV viewing share

More News

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
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
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction

Earlier Picks

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
Jeff Tomich / Politico:
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
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
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
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
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