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Documents: Intel plans to invest $15M in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel's stake to 9%, following a $35M investment in February (Reuters)

Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor (Financial Times)

Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an "active attack" on its protocol; Arkham data says $250M+ moved from Drift's wallet to an interim wallet (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a "major incident" (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December and February hikes, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M+ in annualized revenue, up from $10M+ in Oct. (The Information)

Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing; it could reportedly seek a valuation of $1.75T+ and raise ~$75B (Bloomberg)

Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was "extinguishing a fire in a facility" (Financial Times)

SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take "several weeks" before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)

Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a "dream mode" to consolidate its memories (The Information)

US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)

Sources: Amazon's "sponsored prompts" for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10% (Ian King/Bloomberg)

India says its General Anti-Avoidance Rules do not apply to foreign investment gains made before 2017, after a court required Tiger to pay $1.6B on a 2018 sale (Reuters)

Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 (Julia Hornstein/The Information)

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes "digital sovereignty" (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)

Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, a day after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its success in attracting crypto firms (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)

South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports to a record $86.13B, up 48.3% YoY (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)

A profile of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib, who has used crypto diplomacy to help Pakistan win over President Trump (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg)

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)

Analysis: 50% of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, such as Chinese companies Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 (OpenAI)

A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to offer a driverless service (Bloomberg)

The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

Perplexity faces a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it shared users' personal data with Meta and Google even in Incognito mode, violating CA privacy laws (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

Apple says it will push out rare "backported" patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes over iPhones running the older OS (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Mercor confirmed it was affected by a recent supply chain attack involving LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Kestra, an open-source workflow orchestration startup, raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, as Kestra looks to expand its go-to-market strategy (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence" for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)

Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)

Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg)

Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus)