• Judge Blocks Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist
  • Preliminary injunction pauses supply-chain-risk label
  • Clears Anthropic to operate without designation next week
  • Axios, Wired
• Anthropic Targets Q4 IPO at $60B+
  • Execs in active IPO discussions, Q4 timing floated
  • Bankers expect raise of more than $60B
  • The Information, Techmeme
• Apple Opens Siri to All AI Chatbots
  • iOS 27 lets App Store chatbots plug into Siri
  • Drops ChatGPT's exclusive Apple Intelligence role
  • Techmeme, The Verge
• OpenAI Ads Top $100M Annualized
  • 600+ advertisers on platform
  • Self-serve advertiser access launching April
  • The Information, Techmeme

• Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Rolls Out Globally
  • Google's highest-quality audio and voice model yet
  • Live in Search, Gemini app, and developer tools
  • 9to5Google, Ars Technica
• Gemini Launches Rival Chatbot Import Tool
  • Import memories and chat history from other AI apps
  • Supports switching from ChatGPT, Claude, and others
  • TechCrunch, MacRumors
• Mistral and Cohere Both Ship Voice Models
  • Mistral Voxtral TTS: 9 languages, open-source
  • Cohere Transcribe: 2B params, 14 languages
  • TechCrunch, TechCrunch

• EU Parliament Defeats Chat Control
  • Mass private message scanning proposal voted down
  • Privacy advocates call outcome a 'voting thriller'
  • Hacker News, The Verge
• Wikipedia Bans AI-Written Articles
  • English site prohibits AI for writing or rewriting
  • AI articles cited for violating core content policies
  • The Verge, Techmeme
• Senate Wants Data Centers' Power Bills
  • Hawley & Warren push EIA to track DC energy use
  • Senators want data on how usage affects the grid
  • TechCrunch
• Meta Stock Craters 6% on Addiction Verdict
  • Shares hit 10-month low after jury verdicts
  • Juries found Meta failed to warn or protect young users
  • Techmeme, LA Times

• GitHub Quietly Reverses AI Training Opt-Out
  • Starting Apr 24, user data trains AI unless opted out
  • Includes inputs, outputs, and code snippets
  • The Register
• LiteLLM Attack Reconstructed Minute-by-Minute
  • Researcher used Claude transcripts to confirm stealer
  • Callum McMahon's first-person account of PyPI report
  • Simon Willison, TechCrunch

• Arm CEO on Why It Now Makes Chips
  • Stratechery interview on Arm's IP-to-silicon pivot
  • Rene Haas explains decision to stop just licensing IP
  • Stratechery
• Behind the Curtain: Anthropic-Pentagon Revival
  • Two hard truths neither side will state publicly
  • Anthropic's AI described as best available for warfare
  • Axios
• Quantization Explained With Interactive Diagrams
  • Sam Rose's deep-dive on how LLM quantization works
  • Covers memory tradeoffs behind model compression
  • Simon Willison