• Amazon Buys Globalstar $11.57B; Apple Joins Leo
  • $90/share deal closes 2027; Apple previously owned 20% of Globalstar
  • Amazon Leo to power satellite services on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • TechCrunch, The Verge, Wall Street Journal
• Anthropic Fields $800B Valuation Bids From VCs
  • Valued at $380B in February; more than doubled in under two months
  • Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan joins Long-Term Benefit Trust board
  • Business Insider (Techmeme), Anthropic
• Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7, Design Tool, Usage Pricing
  • Opus 4.7 and AI design tool releasing this week; Claude Code desktop redesigned
  • Enterprise pricing now $20/mo per user plus consumption-based charges
  • The Information, The Information, Anthropic
• US Agencies Secretly Test Mythos Despite Trump Ban
  • Commerce Dept. and 3 congressional committees reached out to Anthropic
  • Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain Mythos access this week
  • Politico (Techmeme), Bloomberg (Techmeme), TechCrunch
• Maine Enacts First US Data Center Moratorium
  • Blocks new centers over 20MW capacity until November 2027
  • Only bill to survive; 11 of 12 similar 2026 state bills had already failed
  • Wall Street Journal (Techmeme)
• Uber's Full-Year AI Budget Blown Within Months
  • CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga confirmed AI coding tools exhausted annual spend
  • Surge in developer adoption outpaced all 2026 spending projections
  • The Information (Techmeme), The Information

• OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for Vetted Defenders
  • Available to vetted professionals via expanded Trusted Access program
  • Direct response to Anthropic Mythos raising the cyber capability bar
  • OpenAI, Wired
• Nvidia Releases Ising: First Open Quantum AI Models
  • First open-source models for quantum calibration and error correction
  • Nvidia stock also up 18%+ over 10 days; Jensen cited $1T in GPU orders through 2027
  • SiliconANGLE (Techmeme)

• Fluidstack Raising $1B at $18B Valuation
  • More than doubles its ~$7.5B valuation from earlier in 2026
  • Round potentially led by Jane Street; builds AI-dedicated data centers
  • Bloomberg (Techmeme), TechCrunch
• Mintlify Raises $45M Series B at $500M Valuation
  • Led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures
  • AI-powered automatic software documentation generation platform
  • Forbes (Techmeme)
• Sygaldry Raises $139M to Blend Quantum and Classical Chips
  • $34M seed plus $105M Series A disclosed together
  • Targets AI data center servers integrating quantum and classical hardware
  • Fortune (Techmeme)
• Credo Acquires DustPhotonics for Up to $1.3B
  • Cash-and-stock deal for Israeli photonic chip startup
  • Credo specializes in high-speed data center connectivity
  • CTech (Techmeme)
• Kraken Files for US IPO; Deutsche Börse Invests $200M
  • Payward raising $200M from Deutsche Börse for 1.5% fully diluted stake
  • Valued at $13.3B now, down from $20B peak in late 2025
  • Semafor (Techmeme), Bloomberg (Techmeme)

• Backdoors Planted in Dozens of WordPress Plugins Post-Sale
  • New owner of Essential Plugin inserted malicious code after acquisition
  • Plugins taken offline; thousands of dependent sites potentially compromised
  • TechCrunch
• Fake Crypto App Drains $9.5M From 50+ App Store Victims
  • Malicious Ledger Live clone ran on App Store from April 7 to April 13
  • Funds stolen across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and XRP
  • CoinDesk (Techmeme)
• Adobe Patches PDF Zero-Day Exploited Since November
  • CVE-2026-34621 enables remote malware install via crafted PDF
  • Affects Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024 on Windows and macOS
  • TechCrunch

• YMTC Plans Two More Factories, Doubling Chip Capacity
  • First new factory completes in 2026; two additional plants to follow
  • Would more than double total NAND production capacity
  • Reuters (Techmeme)
• Meta and Broadcom Expand MTIA Chip Co-Development
  • Partnership covers multiple future MTIA chip generations
  • Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to depart Meta's board of directors
  • CNBC (Techmeme)
• US Utilities Budget $1.4T Over 5 Years to Power AI
  • 51 investor-owned utilities contributing to the spending plan
  • Targets aging grid upgrades and surging AI electricity demand
  • Wall Street Journal

• OpenSSL 4.0.0 Officially Released
  • Major version milestone for the foundational internet encryption library
  • Released April 14; 304+ commits to master since last tagged release
  • GitHub
• GitHub Launches Stacked PRs to Tame Large Code Reviews
  • PRs can build on prior PRs, forming a manageable reviewable stack
  • Now in private preview; inspired by Phabricator's Differential workflow
  • The Register
• Google Adds AI Skills to Chrome; Penalizes Back-Button Hijacking
  • Chrome Skills let users save and replay AI prompt workflows in one click
  • Back-button hijacking designated malicious; search demotion begins June 15
  • Google Blog, Ars Technica

• Ben Thompson: OpenAI Memos, Frontier, Amazon, Anthropic
  • Unpacks OpenAI's internal memo on competing with Anthropic in enterprise
  • Covers Amazon Frontier, the Globalstar deal, and AI platform power shifts
  • Stratechery
• Simon Willison: AI Cybersecurity Is Now Proof of Work
  • UK AI Safety Institute independently validates Mythos cyber capability claims
  • Argues AI safety evaluations now function like blockchain proof-of-work for credibility
  • Simon Willison's Weblog
• Hyperliquid: $10B Exchange, $900M Profit, 11 People, No VCs
  • Jeffrey Yan built a world-class crypto exchange without venture funding
  • Generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with just 11 employees
  • Colossus (Techmeme)