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April 25, 2026, 2:25 AM
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Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets  —  Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees  —  At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange.  (You might recall Project Vend …
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job  —  The Department of Commerce had picked Anthropic researcher Collin Burns to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.  —  Summary
The Economist:
Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete  —  It wasn't long after blue jeans, Hollywood blockbusters and Big Macs crossed the Atlantic last century that some worrywarts started fretting …
Jenna Russell / New York Times:
Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town  —  Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation's first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140  —  Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI  —  It's the first investment from the firm's new strategy focused on long-term investments in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI
Hema Parmar / Bloomberg:
Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding  —  Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using …
@themidasproj:
The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future  —  The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads  —  XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, is now available.  X's new iPhone and iPad app has officially arrived on the App Store.  —  XChat has officially launched on iPhone and iPad
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas  —  The Trump administration is joining Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI in its legal challenge to Colorado's new state law that seeks …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher  —  Nvidia shares closed at a record on Friday for the first time since October, pushing the company's market cap past $5 trillion …

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: JPMorgan and other banks struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin

Earlier Picks

Joe Wertz / Bloomberg:
France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026
Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026
Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months
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