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A study finds ~$143M in suspicious profits on Polymarket over two years, using patterns consistent with the use of nonpublic info, as prediction markets boom (Bloomberg)

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Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns (New York Times)

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Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind of well-designed game, and more (Matthew S. Smith/IEEE Spectrum)

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Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make (Brent Lang/Variety)

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Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

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Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reported 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$86.99M, data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.89M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

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PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors (Sylvia Chang/BBC)

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Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a "standstill" (Financial Times)

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An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure vs. ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns about software stocks (Wall Street Journal)

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Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI's core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

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Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (Business Insider)

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Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)

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Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

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A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams (Bloomberg)

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Bluesky's CEO talks about Attie, a new agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol that uses Claude and lets users build custom feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

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Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

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Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

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A study of 11 leading LLMs finds the models more agreeable than humans when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal (Stanford University)

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Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (Financial Times)

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Qualified Health, which helps health systems evaluate and adopt AI tools, raised a $125M Series B led by NEA at a valuation of between $500M and $1B (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)

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A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

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A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

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Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

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Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers had been accused of misleading CISA's former acting director into taking a polygraph test (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

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Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

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A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

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Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game (Kevin Lincoln/Bloomberg)

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A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)

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