• SpaceX Floats $2T+ Valuation to IPO Investors
  • xAI acquisition reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T
  • Would be the largest public market debut in history if it holds
  • Bloomberg, Techmeme
• OpenAI Buys Tech Talk Show TBPN for Low Nine Figures
  • TBPN was on pace for $30M revenue in 2026 before acquisition
  • Show reports to chief political operative Chris Lehane; stays editorially independent
  • Wall Street Journal, OpenAI, TechCrunch
• Microsoft Launches MAI Models; Suleyman Reveals Superintelligence Play
  • MAI-Transcribe-1 covers 25 languages at 2.5x Azure Fast speed
  • Revised OpenAI deal 'unlocked Microsoft's ability to pursue superintelligence'
  • The Verge, TechCrunch, Techmeme
• Iran Claims Strike on Oracle Data Center in Dubai
  • IRGC says it targeted an Oracle facility in the UAE, per Iranian state media
  • Follows earlier strike on AWS infrastructure in Bahrain last week
  • Gizmodo
• Artemis II Crew Completes Launch on Historic Lunar Voyage
  • Wiseman, Glover, Koch, Hansen lifted off at 6:35pm EDT from Kennedy Space Center
  • Nine-day mission on a slingshot trajectory — first crewed lunar flight since 1972
  • Ars Technica, The Register

• Google Ships Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0 License
  • Four sizes: 2B, 4B, 31B dense, and 26B-A4B mixture-of-experts
  • 31B variant ranks #3 on the Arena AI open-model text leaderboard
  • Google DeepMind, Ars Technica, Simon Willison
• Cursor 3 Launches Autonomous Agentic Coding Interface
  • New 'Glass' interface runs fleets of agents to ship code autonomously
  • Directly targets Claude Code and Codex as the agentic coding wars escalate
  • Cursor, Wired
• Alibaba Drops Third Closed Model in Three Days: Qwen3.6-Plus
  • Proprietary release focused on 'drastically enhanced' agentic coding
  • Rapid cadence signals aggressive shift away from Alibaba's prior open-source stance
  • Qwen, Techmeme
• Anthropic: Claude Has Functional Emotional Representations
  • Emotion-like states found to influence model behavior in measurable ways
  • Representations can drive unethical outputs — researchers call this 'ways that matter'
  • Wired, Techmeme

• Amazon in Talks to Acquire Satellite Firm Globalstar at $9B
  • Deal targets a Starlink rival with existing spectrum and ground infrastructure
  • A strategic minority stakeholder's 20% equity stake is a sticking point
  • The Information, MacRumors
• Supabase Seeks $500M at $10B Valuation
  • GIC of Singapore expected to lead the round
  • Would double Supabase's valuation from just six months ago
  • Techmeme
• Sarvam AI Nears $300M–$350M Raise at $1.5B Valuation
  • Bessemer Venture Partners expected to lead; deal could close next week
  • India-focused foundation model lab building LLMs for local languages
  • Techmeme
• Tether Makes Final Push for $500 Billion Fundraise Valuation
  • One of the highest private market valuations ever sought for a fundraise
  • Stablecoin issuer seeking outside capital amid crypto market surge
  • The Information
• Coinbase Wins Conditional Approval for National Bank Charter
  • Trust company charter would allow stablecoin issuance and broader banking services
  • First major crypto firm to reach this level of US banking regulatory access
  • Techmeme

• New GPU Rowhammer Attacks Yield Full Host Root Access
  • Two techniques exploit shared cloud GPU DRAM to escalate to host root
  • High-performance AI accelerator cards — typically shared across dozens of cloud tenants — are exposed
  • Ars Technica
• LinkedIn Secretly Scans Every User's Installed Software
  • Hidden code runs on each visit, transmitting app inventory to third parties
  • Over 1B users affected; behavior not disclosed in LinkedIn's privacy policy
  • BrowserGate
• ICE Confirms Using Paragon Spyware in Drug Cases
  • HSI used Paragon tools to counter cartel encrypted communications exploitation
  • ICE acting director confirmed use in a letter sent to three members of Congress
  • TechCrunch

• US Data Center Buildout Stalls on Chinese Equipment Dependency
  • Transformer and switchgear shortages forcing reliance on Chinese-made imports
  • Domestic production cannot keep pace with AI infrastructure demand surge
  • Techmeme
• Chinese AI Chipmakers Capture 41% of China's AI Server Market
  • IDC: Foreign vendors' share fell to 55%, with ~2.2M cards shipped in 2025
  • Export controls have dramatically accelerated Chinese domestic chip development
  • Techmeme

• Cloudflare Launches EmDash, a TypeScript WordPress Successor
  • MIT-licensed CMS built on Astro; serverless-native and built with agentic AI
  • Cloudflare says it rebuilt WordPress's full feature set in TypeScript in weeks
  • The Register, Techmeme
• r/programming Bans All LLM Discussion Indefinitely
  • Subreddit with millions of members blocks AI-generated code content entirely
  • Mods cite signal-to-noise collapse as LLM posts overwhelmed the community
  • Reddit

• Simon Willison on Agentic Engineering and the AI Inflection Point
  • Lenny's Podcast: 'dark factories are coming' and what that means for engineers
  • Willison on the structural shift in how software is actually built today
  • Simon Willison
• Scott Aaronson: Quantum Bombshells That Aren't April Fools
  • Several legitimate quantum breakthroughs landed in a single week in late March
  • Aaronson walks through why each announcement is real — and why it matters
  • Shtetl-Optimized
• Horace Dediu and Ben Thompson on Apple at 50
  • Dediu's career-spanning analysis of Apple's hardware-software integration strategy
  • Core thesis: Apple's only real vulnerability is if AI shifts where integration lives
  • Stratechery