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April 18, 2026, 8:15 PM
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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands  —  Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” …
Financial Times:
Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks  —  Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat
Axios:
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned “ICE Sightings - Chicagoland” Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A  —  Last year, the Trump administration demanded platforms remove a slew of apps that monitored ICE activity.
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth  —  Company expands accommodation options alongside home rentals but analysts warn of stiff competition
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users  —  The scarcity of Apple's littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications  —  OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots.  Kevin Weil, who led the company's science research initiative, and Bill Peebles …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund  —  Topline  —  Elon Musk on Friday touted what he described as “Universal HIGH INCOME” as a solution to deal …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025  —  Funding to autonomous vehicle startups has seen a massive resurgence in 2026, more than tripling so far this year compared to all of 2025 globally, Crunchbase data shows.

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Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Sources: a group of US states is preparing a lawsuit against Paramount's WBD acquisition; California's AG has said his office would make a decision soon

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Memo: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim say they will stay at 60 Minutes as they don't want to see it die and are “working to build trust with Nick”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Q&A with BBC's Matt Brittin on the necessity of YouTube, growing the BBC's role in education and skills, streamers helping pay for public broadcasting, and more

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Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude
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X: @wallstengine, @callmejohnnie, @theamolavasare, @claudeai, @rsms, @raph_dornano, @zachtratar, @lexxbarn, @joshpuckett, @bearlyai, @wesbos, @amorriscode, @fastcompany, @morningbrew, @petergyang, @skeptrune, @helloitsaustin, @brewmarkets, @voidwalker_com, @bouazizalex, @aakashgupta, @businessbarista, @ultralinx, @amirmxt, @polymarket, @chooserich, @polymarketmoney, @stocksavvyshay, @benbajarin, @alexalbert__, @cointelegraph, @angjiang, @petergyang, @matthewberman, @kimmonismus, @flomerboy, @dannpetty, @ehuanglu, @kyleturman, @9to5mac, @cnulty, @birdabo, @vaibhavsisinty, @robertjbye, @cgtwts, @charlespattson, @adocomplete, @yuchenj_uw, @testingcatalog, @ai_for_success, @nateparrott, @scaling01, @claudeai, and @techcrunch
LinkedIn: Chris Heatherly, Mary Aguililla, Drew Bent, Pradeep Sanyal, Gianluca Brugnoli, Amol Avasare, Tom Wentworth, and Claude
Bluesky: @eidyngray.scot and @isolyth.dev.  Threads: @claudeai
Forums: Hacker News, r/software, r/figmaStock, r/graphic_design, and r/ClaudeAI
Will Canny / CoinDesk:
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B
The Guardian:
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules
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