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| Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: |
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected — The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers.
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin — Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology
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| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label — But while Thursday's decision is a win for Anthropic, several lawyers and lobbyists said it will do little to lift the cloud …
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| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed — Former DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin previously told POLITICO the staffers were under investigation for “misleading” … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900 — The PS5 Pro will be a $900 console as of April 2nd. … Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally starting April 2nd.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
A Jeffrey Epstein victim files a class action against the Trump administration and Google, claiming Google's search and AI Mode published victims' personal info — A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of herself and other survivors …
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| Kevin Lincoln / Bloomberg: |
Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game — Artificial intelligence drove chess toward perfect play, leading to more draws at top tournaments. Now grandmasters are winning by making less optimal moves.| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will hit their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity — Follow Brent D. Griffiths … - Anthropic adjusted Claude usage caps during peak hours. — The changes show that the AI company is experiencing some compute strain.
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator — Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023. — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.| Newcomer: |
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more — Plus, Kleiner's big fundraise & a reckoning for social media … The Main Item — Industrial Policy Gets New Life as Tech Eyes Government Incentives
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sony Japan temporarily suspends fulfillment of orders for nearly all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to solid state memory shortages — The global shortage of solid state memory has claimed its first photographic victim, as Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment …
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| Reuters: |
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan — Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 — At the height of the pandemic and the global shift to remote work, tech founders and investors alike flocked to Austin, Texas … | Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: |
Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word — Bets decided on linguistic technicalities are exposing how hard it is to turn language into a binary market with payouts hinging on a single word.| Financial Times: |
US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm — New research suggests AI data centres will need much less memory than investors had bargained for — US memory chip stocks …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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