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Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots (Maria Cheng/Reuters)

Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars (Bloomberg)

CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Chinese companies are implementing "quiet" AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce (Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B in debt and equity in FY 2027; ORCL drops 10%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems (Anthropic)

Dario Amodei says frontier models should face mandatory third-party testing for cyber, bio, and autonomy risks, in addition to overall transparency requirements (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)

An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics (Dario Amodei)

OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting "innocuous tasks" like reading blog posts or performing code reviews (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements (Tom Warren/The Verge)

As AI commoditizes benchmarkable work, an organization's lasting moats lie in tasks that are verifiable through its private data and judgment (Sarah Guo)

Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs (Reuters)

Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December (Andrey Lemeshko/Bloomberg)

Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models (The Keyword)

Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public "within the next year" and OpenAI plans a tender offer "very soon" at a $687.69 share price (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior (Dean W. Ball/@deanwball)

Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS (Bloomberg)

Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are "unhappy" with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M (Joe Brennan/The Irish Times)

Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation (Financial Times)

WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations (Bloomberg)

Pi, whose "security brain" AI agent helps companies assess vulnerabilities to prioritize and patch, raised $35M at a $100M valuation; sources: xAI is a customer (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)

Maneva, whose AI agents connect to existing camera infrastructure in factories to flag safety risks and measure worker productivity, raised a $27M Series A (Colin Campbell/Axios)

A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Sources: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the Kuwait Investment Authority have each placed share orders worth $1B to $5B for SpaceX's IPO (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)

Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multistep prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Sources: Chinese companies like Moonshot are reconsidering "red-chip structures", which make it easier to list overseas, after China blocked the Meta-Manus deal (Financial Times)

Morgan Stanley forecasts global AI-tied debt issuance will more than double to nearly $570B in 2026, as hyperscalers seek alternative funding for AI capex needs (Kanishka Ajmera/Reuters)

A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market (SemiAnalysis)

Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised a $350M Series B led by AMD and Magnetar at a $1.55B post-money valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: SpaceX has drawn $250B+ of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest IPO to date, far beyond the $75B that SpaceX is aiming to raise (Reuters)

Sources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on strong AI-linked stock demand and broaden its investor base (Reuters)

Sources: Ant International is considering raising ~$1B at a $10B+ valuation, which could help pave the way for a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (Bloomberg)

Tata's chairman predicts AI agents will replace half of Tata Consultancy Services' jobs and says TCS plans to reduce hiring in the coming years as it adopts AI (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Swedish autonomous truck company Einride will debut on the Nasdaq today after merging with a SPAC at a $1.35B pre-money valuation; Einride raised $113M in 2026 (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)