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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports — The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable …
Bluesky: @andrewlevesque, @thorbenson, @zdroberts, @jvagle.me, and @brbarrett. Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone. Forums: r/technology
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99 — The standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US. … YouTube Premium is getting more expensive in the US, with prices rising by $2 …
More: 9to5Google, PiunikaWeb, PCMag, Thurrott, Android Police, Android Central, Digital Trends, Dexerto, and Android Authority. Forums: r/youtube
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about risks from Anthropic's Mythos at an urgent meeting on April 7 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail on Android and iOS devices for enterprise users, letting them read and compose emails without additional tools — Google says Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is now available on all Android and iOS devices, allowing enterprise users to read … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person Germany-based startup, became a top AI image generation competitor; sources: in recent months, it declined an xAI partnership — Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.
X: @zeffmax
| Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong grants its first stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Standard Chartered from a pool of 36 applicants; they are set to issue stablecoins in H2 2026 — Hong Kong has granted its inaugural stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC Holdings Plc and a joint venture of Standard Chartered Plc …
More: Hong Kong Monetary Authority, South China Morning Post, Reuters, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Nikkei Asia, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, and CryptoPotato
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI — SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said.| Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project — Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said …
More: Silicon Republic, Digit, Blue Tech Wave Media, The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Business Today, The Information, and Benzinga
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| Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago — After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build “AI co-workers” into all of its analytic platforms — Ellis revealed that the agency recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report …
More: Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Defense One, and Nextgov/FCW
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/technology
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers — Anthropic PBC agreed to rent data center capacity from CoreWeave Inc. as part of efforts to handle increasing demand for its artificial intelligence services.
More: SiliconANGLE, Verdict, Business Wire, eWeek, Proactive, Quartz, CoinDesk, Dow Jones Newswires, crypto.news, and Bloomberg Law
| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the “For you” section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage — Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, often appearing as large blocks …
More: Korea Joongang Daily, Associated Press, and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @patbits, @jonchristian.net, and @dryad.technology
| Counterpoint Research: |
Apple led global Q1 smartphone shipments for the first time with a 21% market share in Q1 2026; overall smartphone shipments fell due to memory chip shortages — Team Counterpoint — Counterpoint research is a young and fast growing research firm covering analysis of the tech industry.
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above ~$35.2B est., signaling global chip demand remained intact during early weeks of the war in the Middle East — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 35% increase in quarterly revenue, suggesting global AI chip demand remained intact during … | Bloomberg: |
Documents: Shenzhen-based computing company Sharetronic bought hundreds of Super Micro systems containing banned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 2025, worth ~$92M — Hours after the United States charged a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder with illegally smuggling billions of dollars' worth … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is “outraged” and exploring legal options — Apple today announced it will be permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S. in June, including Apple Trumbull in Trumbull …
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X: @mweinbach, @dylanmcd8, @macrumors, and @pamalamiam
Forums: r/Apple_Employees, r/escondido, r/baltimore, r/BaltimoreCounty, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains — Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is
More: The Decoder. X: @juberti, @lateinteraction, @chiefagenteer, @emollick, @femisapien_z, @arthurcdent, @alanmcole, @lordofafew, @paranoidchip, @garrytan, @jenzhuscott, @paulfreeman99, @sameedmed, @karpathy, @mlstreettalk, @aakashgupta, @patarino, @howdymary, @gagansaluja08, @danveloper, @garymarcus, @zdch, @larrypanozzo, @pawelhuryn, @tszzl, @shanumathew93, @davidkyang, @levie, @binarybits, @alexberenson, @steffenpharai, @tunguz, @pmarca, @scobleizer, @pmarca, @cryptopunk7213, @missmi1973, @alex_peys, and @staysaasy
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