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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 (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

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 (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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 (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

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 (Kevin Lincoln/Bloomberg)

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 (Newcomer)

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 (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

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 (Reuters)

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 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya raised $2.5B in a private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix's Solidigm, Cisco, and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

Indonesia begins implementing a regulation that bans under-16s from digital platforms that could expose them to porn, cyberbullying, online scams, and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)

Worth, which aims to help financial services onboard and underwrite SMBs, raised a $30M Series A led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, following a $25M seed round (Brian Contreras/Inc)

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 (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

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 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

NeurIPS reverses a policy change that would have banned papers from researchers at any entity under US sanctions, after backlash from Chinese researchers (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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 (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

Sources: Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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 (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)

Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+ (Bloomberg)

Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to "take down content doxxing or threatening" DOGE staffers (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7% (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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 (Financial Times)

Filing: Kalshi has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, which would make the platform more appealing to institutional investors (Bloomberg)

The Trump administration launches the White House app, promising news "straight from the source, no filter", with news, live, social, and gallery sections (Emily Goodin/New York Post)

The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was "historical in nature" and involves no government info (TechCrunch)

Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the company (Financial Times)

China's broadening Manus review raises doubts about the "Singapore-washing" model; sources: Meta moved 100+ Manus employees to Singapore in early March (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

Microsoft will lease Crusoe's 900 MW data center in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle and OpenAI reportedly withdrew, with the first building expected by mid-2027 (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and publishes some documents online (Reuters)

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to develop orbital data centers, aims to raise $250M to $300M in a Series B at a $2B valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a "step change" in performance after a draft blog in an unsecured data store revealed the Claude Mythos model (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

OpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20+ initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Unity plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30 and has begun the process of divesting Supersonic, its casual game publishing arm (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026 (Reuters)

Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)

Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Capital Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Miami-based telehealth company eMed raised a $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation to advance its agentic AI platform and more; Tom Brady participated in the round (Sneha S K/Reuters)

Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company over alleged Chinese military ties (Reuters)

NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Sources: SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investors in Musk's other companies (Wall Street Journal)

Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice (Reuters)

Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B after strong investor interest (Bloomberg)