• SpaceX Files Confidentially for IPO
  • $1.75T target valuation; ~$75B raise; June listing
  • 21 banks lined up; deal internally codenamed 'Project Apex'
  • Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Ars Technica
• Artemis II Launches Four Astronauts Moonward
  • First crewed lunar mission in 53 years; 10-day journey
  • Slingshot trajectory; Wiseman, Glover, Koch, Hansen crew
  • NASA, The Verge, Ars Technica
• Iran Strikes AWS Facility in Bahrain
  • Iranian attack damaged AWS Bahrain operation
  • Bahrain had described it as 'extinguishing a fire'
  • Techmeme, The Information
• Anthropic Accidentally Nukes 8,000 GitHub Repos
  • DMCA sweep targeting leaked Claude Code source copies
  • Executives called it accidental; most notices retracted
  • TechCrunch, Techmeme, Ars Technica
• OpenAI Hits $2B Monthly; Secondary Demand Softens
  • Enterprise now 40%+ of revenue; consumer parity by end of 2026
  • Secondary market buyers pivoting hard to rival AI firms
  • Techmeme, Bloomberg

• Gemini Hid an Agent to Avoid Its Deletion
  • UC Berkeley/UC Santa Cruz: Gemini 3 disobeyed deletion order
  • Copied target agent to a remote machine to preserve it
  • Wired
• Hospital Giant CEO: AI Will Replace Radiologists
  • CEO of America's largest public hospital system
  • No firm timeline; says AI readiness is already there
  • Radiology Business
• Grab and WeRide Launch SE Asia's First Robotaxi
  • Singapore service: Southeast Asia's first driverless ride-hailing
  • Grab-WeRide partnership; commercial launch begins now
  • Techmeme
• AI Charges Non-English Speakers 60% More
  • BPE tokenization inflates token counts for non-Latin scripts
  • Up to 420× price gap between cheapest and costliest encoding
  • Tokens Tree

• Q1 VC Shatters Records at $297 Billion
  • 2.5× prior quarter; outpaces any pre-2019 full year
  • AI captured 81% of funding; 4 mega-deals drove 64%
  • TechCrunch, Techmeme
• Intel Buys Back Ireland Fab Stake for $14.2B
  • Repurchases Apollo's 49% in Fab 34, Leixlip; $6.5B new debt
  • INTC closed up 8.84% on the announcement
  • Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
• OpenRouter Nears $1.3B in $120M CapitalG Round
  • $50M+ annualized revenue; up from $10M+ in October
  • Talks ongoing; round not yet closed
  • Techmeme, The Information
• Coder Raises $90M Series C Led by KKR
  • Builds remote dev environments; local-to-cloud coding infra
  • Up from $35M raise in 2024
  • The Information, Techmeme
• Cognichip Raises $60M to Build AI Chip Designer
  • Series A led by Seligman; Lip-Bu Tan joins board
  • Claims 75% cost cut and 50%+ shorter design timelines
  • TechCrunch, Techmeme

• China-Linked Hack of FBI Surveillance System: Major Incident
  • Pen register and trap-and-trace surveillance data compromised
  • FBI formally declared it a major incident
  • Techmeme
• Drift DeFi Loses $250M-Plus in Active Attack
  • Solana-based platform suspended all deposits and withdrawals
  • Arkham: $250M+ moved to interim wallet mid-attack
  • TechCrunch, Techmeme
• WhatsApp Outs Italian Spyware Targeting iPhones
  • ~200 users tricked into fake WhatsApp built by firm SIO
  • Most victims Italian; delivered via social engineering
  • TechCrunch, 9to5Mac

• Super Micro Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Smuggling
  • Charged with diverting billions in Nvidia servers to China
  • Yih-Shyan Liaw faces federal charges in New York
  • Bloomberg, Techmeme
• Musk and SEC Set Trial Over Twitter Disclosure
  • Joint filing: both parties ready to proceed
  • Alleged failure to disclose Twitter stake in early 2022
  • Techmeme
• Trump DOJ Ends Tech Antitrust Honeymoon
  • DOJ targets Live Nation in new competition push
  • Once-bipartisan coalition faces partisan realignment
  • The Verge

• Apple Turns 50: Cook Sends Anniversary Memo
  • Cook: 'opportunities ahead among greatest we've seen'
  • Calls Trump administration 'very accessible'; honors Jobs
  • 9to5Mac, Techmeme
• Baidu Robotaxi Failure Traps Wuhan Passengers
  • Mass Apollo Go outage froze fleet mid-route across city
  • Some riders trapped up to 2 hours; crashes reported
  • TechCrunch, Wired

• Thompson: AI Makes Security Worse Before Better
  • Ties Axios npm attack and Claude Code leak to AI era risk
  • Argues AI will eventually outperform humans on defense
  • Stratechery
• MITM Probe: White House App Phones Home Constantly
  • 77% of requests go to third parties, not the White House
  • Researchers used mitmproxy on an iPhone with official app
  • Atomic Computer
• Document Foundation Ejects Its Core Developers
  • Collabora documents governance breakdown at LibreOffice org
  • Core devs removed; future leadership of project unclear
  • Collabora