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| 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
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, CNET, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, and PCMag
| 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 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles …
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| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.| 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 …
More: The Hans India, The American Bazaar, Benzinga, and The Decoder
| 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 — The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.
More: Business Insider, CNBC, The Information, Tech in Asia, Implicator.ai, The Economic Times, and The Verge
X: @kevinweil and @zeffmax
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech — The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers …
More: European Commission, Euractiv, European Commission, The Next Web, and Telecompaper
| Nikkei Asia: |
Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now — TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage of memory chips appears likely to continue until around 2027, with the top U.S. and South Korean …
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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ — Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google's venture arm and Nvidia| Reuters: |
Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later …
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| 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.| 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 — Some podcasts are self-recommending on the 'yep, I'm going to be breaking this one down' level. This was one of those. So here we go.
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| Reuters: |
Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection — Hesai (2525.HK), China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable …
More: CnEVPost and Tech in Asia
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
Figma stock closed down 6.84% on Friday after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 — Today Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 that lets users use text prompts to build web site designs …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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