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Sat Apr 4
Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
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As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill (Owen Tucker-Smith/Wall Street Journal)
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How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research (Peter Loftus/Wall Street Journal)
2h
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Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
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Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above est., and a $154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
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New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
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Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
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Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
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Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm (Bloomberg)
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Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
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Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
6h
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Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
6h
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Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release (New York Times)
6h
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Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times)
7h
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Anthropic co-founder explains why there's a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their successors by 2029 and the consequences of automated AI R&D (Jack Clark/Import AI)
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Sources: Apple prepares a "Create a Pass" feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
8h
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Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (Dylan Martin/CRN)
9h
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Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, "emotionally intelligent" robot that reacts to owner's feelings (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
9h
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Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google (Bloomberg)
9h
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Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week (Suzanne McGee/Reuters)
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Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as $1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at $250M-$1.5B (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
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Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
10h
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Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector (Reuters)
10h
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Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)
10h
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Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
10h
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How "emotion AI", the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (Ellen Cushing/The Atlantic)
11h
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SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
11h
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Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
11h
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Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
11h
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Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
11h
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The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
12h
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eBay's stock jumps 4%+ to ~$108, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop stock drops 10%+ (Bloomberg)
13h
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Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
13h
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Source: OpenAI has raised $4B+ at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture that will aim to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
13h
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Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
14h
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How AI tools such as SuperBrain and Naver's Talking Buddy are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline (Choe Sang-Hun/New York Times)
15h
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Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
16h
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Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters adds Instructure to its victims list, claiming it has 3.65TB of data from nearly 9,000 institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
16h
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Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that the US' export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
16h
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Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public (Reuters)
17h
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Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
18h
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An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users get 67% of the profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (Wall Street Journal)
20h
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A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
21h
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Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas will be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by AI tools like Seedance 2.0 (New York Times)
21h
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Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount (Financial Times)
21h
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Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)
22h
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China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
22h
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Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies (Wall Street Journal)
23h
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Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
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