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Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 10%+ pre-market (Bloomberg)

Google designates "back button hijacking" as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that hasn't taken VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus)

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20, and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK's AISI tested it (Politico)

Voters in Festus, Missouri, last week ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection, just days after the council approved a $6B data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico)

Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

The US DOJ charges Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, with attempted murder and arson (Hadas Gold/CNN)

Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, up from $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace in 2026 (The Information)

AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)

Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not "to influence federal elections" but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)

Xbox staff memo: Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Amazon unveils the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds "simultaneously" for in-flight Wi-Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google", which overstates its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia "has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape" (Bloomberg)

Intel added $100B+ in market value and now has a $325B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy a fab in Ireland and join Terafab (Bloomberg)

Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute)

2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more (Stanford HAI)

The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Microsoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)

Rockstar confirms "a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach"; ShinyHunters demand a ransom (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)

A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posts its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla, hitting 2M+ views; a verified @elonmusk Instagram account has yet to post (Ryan Mac/New York Times)

OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a "backdoor" that has been used to blacklist investors (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work at least a few times per year; leaders are most likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup)

A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices (Elizabeth Bratton/Financial Times)

Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for "physical AI" by 2030 (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to staff (Financial Times)

Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 (Ellen Thomas/Business Insider)

Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal)

Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg)

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider)

Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco ...)

A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times)

A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)

Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks (Martin Arnold/Financial Times)

Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times (Derek Wallbank/Bloomberg)