| 11:30 PM • | 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 |
| 8:10 PM • | 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 |
| 5:55 PM • | 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+ |
| 5:40 PM • | 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 |
| 5:15 PM • | 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 |
| 4:55 PM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications |
| 4:43 PM • | 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 |
| 4:20 PM • | 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 |
| 3:50 PM • | 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 |
| 3:25 PM • | 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 |
| 3:20 PM • | Martin Peers / The Information: In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board |
| 2:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than $50B, with Nvidia participating |
| 2:45 PM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 |
| 1:50 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification |
| 12:55 PM • | Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch |
| 12:00 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations |
| 11:40 AM • | Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share |
| 11:15 AM • | Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape |
| 11:10 AM • | 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 |
| 11:02 AM • | The Information: Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B |
| 10:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor |
| 10:05 AM • | Reuters: India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones |
| 9:55 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data |
| 9:40 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund |
| 9:25 AM • | John Thornhill / Financial Times: An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises |
| 9:01 AM • | 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 |
| 8:45 AM • | Politico: Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo” |
| 8:30 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: China fines leading food delivery apps, like from Alibaba, PDD, and Meituan, a total of ~$528M, the largest fine for the sector since the 2015 food safety law |
| 8:20 AM • | Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks |
| 8:05 AM • | 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 |
| 7:55 AM • | Abhinav Parmar / Reuters: Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% |
| 7:30 AM • | Financial Times: SynMax: almost 40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays; major projects for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are likely to end over three months late |
| 6:15 AM • | Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon |
| 6:00 AM • | Financial Times: Uber agrees to buy an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus for ~€270M, which would bring Uber's total stake to ~7% |
| 5:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 |
| 3:25 AM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers |
| 1:30 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a below 20% stake at a $3B+ valuation; previous reports said it wants to sell a ~60% stake at a ~$5.5B valuation |
| 1:20 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's $2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector |
| 12:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers |
| 11:10 PM • | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub |
| 10:45 PM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more |
| 10:30 PM • | The Information: Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise $3B+ at a $35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation |
| 10:00 PM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras |
| 9:40 PM • | Jessica Hill / Associated Press: Roblox will pay $12.5M to Nevada and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with the state over claims it didn't protect young users |
| 9:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled vesting date, for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale, from May to April |
| 8:25 PM • | Qwen: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks |
| 7:40 PM • | George Winslow / TV Tech: IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue grew 13.9% YoY to $294.6B in 2025; social media ads grew 32.6% YoY to $117.7B and digital video ads grew 25.4% YoY to $78B |
| 7:20 PM • | Wall Street Journal: The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ |
| 6:45 PM • | Robert Scammell / Business Insider: NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a $27M Series A led by Khosla |
| 5:30 PM • | Bill Bradley / Adweek: Netflix says it continues to expect its ad revenue to reach ~$3B in 2026, doubling from 2025, and it now works with 4,000+ advertising clients, up 70% YoY |
| 4:25 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; Chrome desktop and mobile users can now also search across tabs |
| 4:15 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+ |
| 4:10 PM • | Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits |
| 3:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise $180M to $200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months |
| 3:30 PM • | Anna Tong / Forbes: AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces |
| 3:13 PM • | Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen |
| 2:35 PM • | Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard: OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences” |
| 2:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Memo: the White House emailed Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model |
| 2:05 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom |
| 1:55 PM • | Joel Khalili / Wired: The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together |
| 1:20 PM • | David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more |
| 1:00 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI |
| 12:55 PM • | Will Canny / CoinDesk: Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea |
| 12:45 PM • | Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers |
| 12:30 PM • | Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, raised a $150M Series C led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation |
| 12:25 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games |
| 12:20 PM • | Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Solidroad, which uses AI to evaluate customer interactions with human and AI agents to find risk, skill gaps, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Hedosophia |
| 12:10 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes |
| 11:55 AM • | Emily Mullin / Wired: Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others |
| 11:40 AM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses “an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens” |
| 11:20 AM • | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design |
| 10:58 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is “less broadly capable” than Claude Mythos Preview and that its “cyber capabilities are not as advanced as those of Mythos Preview” |
| 10:52 AM • | Anthropic: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level |
| 10:00 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta will increase the price of the Quest 3 by $100, to $599.99, and both Quest 3S models by $50, due to the memory shortage, starting on April 19 |
| 9:50 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue |
| 9:30 AM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt |
| 9:20 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Roku says it is in 100M+ homes globally and its devices are used by “more than half of all US broadband households”; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue |
| 9:10 AM • | Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google is negotiating a US DOD deal that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing Google's previous stance |
| 9:05 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI started leasing its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200+ London staff |
| 8:35 AM • | Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse |
| 8:20 AM • | Bobby Allyn / NPR: Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others |
| 7:55 AM • | Emily Zemler / The Wrap: A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M |
| 7:00 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 |
| 6:40 AM • | Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be a model for the EU, as residents push back |
| 6:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts |
| 6:20 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games |
| 6:05 AM • | George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with a16z partner Martin Casado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more |
| 5:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B |
| 5:41 AM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes |
| 5:30 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific |
| 5:20 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M |
| 5:10 AM • | Dylan Butts / CNBC: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue |
| 3:02 AM • | Rina Chandran / Rest of World: Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances |
| 2:46 AM • | Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models |
| 2:40 AM • | Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via public Telegram channels and groups |
| 2:31 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI |
| 2:05 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025 and from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% to ~$2B |
| 1:35 AM • | Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times: Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled |
| 12:40 AM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies |
| 12:00 AM • | Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio's gambling regulator fines Kalshi $5M for operating unlicensed sports gaming, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling |
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