Daily Briefing
Monday, April 20, 2026
Top Stories
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Vercel Breach; Hackers List Data for $2M
- Context.ai OAuth tangle blamed for credential compromise
- Hackers listing stolen customer data at $2M asking price
The Information,
The Register
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Polymarket Seeks Raise at $15B Valuation
- Prediction market in active funding discussions
- Valuation roughly $15B per multiple sources
The Information,
The Information
Funding & M&A
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Polymarket in Talks at $15B
- Prediction market platform seeking new capital
- ~$15B valuation discussed with potential investors
The Information
Science & Hardware
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SK Hynix Begins Mass Production of SOCAMM2
- 192GB LPDDR5X module built for Nvidia's Vera Rubin
- Next-gen low-power DRAM targets AI accelerator platforms
Techmeme / The Korea Herald
Worth Reading
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SQL Queries Into Google Sheets via Datasette
- Simon Willison demos importdata patterns for Datasette
- Lets analysts query live data without leaving Sheets
Simon Willison
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Claude Token Counter Adds Model Comparisons
- Tool now runs same prompt across multiple Claude models
- Opus 4.7 first model observed changing tokenization behavior
Simon Willison