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The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)

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Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (Bloomberg)

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Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Sources: Microsoft's Judson Althoff said Copilot sales hit "some pretty big audacious goals" in Q3; only 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

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Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are "lawfare" (Leila Sheridan/Inc.com)

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

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Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key. (Boris Cherny/@bcherny)

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Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

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Sources: Meta's "Project Walleye" Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (Financial Times)

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Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)

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Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period" (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)

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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

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Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

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Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (CTech)

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Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

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Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)

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The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization (Matt Mullenweg)

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Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

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Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

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Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build data centers in Japan, investing $10B in cybersecurity and training 1M AI engineers through 2029 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)

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Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

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A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information)

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Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg)

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Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC)

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Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to "help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates" (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (John Coogan/@johncoogan)

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Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)

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Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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