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A profile of Maria Davidson, who heads California Renewal, a pro-business political group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100M in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)

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Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says growing women's share on Tinder is his "primary focus" to stem user declines; Sensor Tower says 75% of Tinder users are men (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)

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Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Sources say NSA is using Mythos Preview, and a source says it is also being used widely within the DoD, despite Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk (Axios)

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Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Sources: the glowing "26" in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

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A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

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At the Beijing half-marathon, several humanoid robots beat human winners by 10+ minutes; a robot made by Honor beat the human world record held by Jacob Kiplimo (Reuters)

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Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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A look at Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis, an AI newsletter and research firm that expects $100M+ in 2026 revenue from subscriptions and AI supply chain research (Abram Brown/The Information)

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Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)

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A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

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An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

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Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

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Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)

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Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (Nikkei Asia)

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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection (Reuters)

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Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

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The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)

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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 (Financial Times)

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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 (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (Financial Times)

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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 (Axios)

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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 (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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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 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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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 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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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 (Reuters)

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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 (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

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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 (Martin Peers/The Information)

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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 (Bloomberg)

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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 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

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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 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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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 (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

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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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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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 (Ivan Lam/Counterpoint Research)

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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 (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B (The Information)

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

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India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)

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