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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 — 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 these price hikes are absolutely massive, and perhaps worst of all, they suggest many new Galaxy devices this year will be costlier.
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 — The cloud-computing startup Fluidstack Ltd. is holding funding talks with investors to bring in about $1 billion at a target valuation of $18 billion …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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.| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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 — Technology and computing giant Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Ising, the world's first open artificial intelligence model family aimed … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
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 …
More: FinSMEs and The Quantum Insider
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
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.
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Forums: r/hardware and r/Surface
| 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.
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