• Anthropic Runs Real Agent Commerce Pilot
  • Project Deal: 69 employees gave agents real spending budgets
  • Agents acted as both buyers and sellers of real goods
  • TechCrunch
• Trump Fires Entire National Science Board
  • All 24 NSB members dismissed in a single action
  • Board advises president and Congress on NSF policy
  • The Verge, Science.org
• Musk's $134B OpenAI Trial Opens Monday
  • Trial starts April 27; claims Altman broke nonprofit pledge
  • Lawsuit seeks $134B in damages from Altman and OpenAI
  • Techmeme / CNBC
• Samsung Mobile Warns of First Annual Loss
  • Co-CEO TM Roh warned company leaders directly
  • RAM and storage shortages cited as primary driver
  • Techmeme / 9to5Google
• Oracle Michigan $16B Financing Closes
  • BofA sold $14B in bonds to complete the deal
  • Michigan campus targets hyperscale AI inference workloads
  • Techmeme / Bloomberg

• DeepSeek V4 Day-0 SGLang Inference Details Drop
  • ShadowRadix adds native prefix caching for hybrid attention
  • Flash Compressor and Lightning TopK optimize throughput
  • LMSYS Blog / Hacker News
• Thinking Machines Lab Swells to 140 Researchers
  • Meta is top feeder company, more than any other employer
  • LinkedIn review confirms ~140 headcount as of this week
  • Techmeme / TechCrunch
• Amateur Cracks 60-Year Erdős Problem With ChatGPT
  • AI suggested a proof method no human had previously tried
  • Experts say the approach may have broader mathematical uses
  • Scientific American / Hacker News

• Adyen Acquires Loyalty Platform Talon.One
  • €750M deal; Talon.One serves 300+ global merchants
  • Expected to close in H2 2026
  • Techmeme / PYMNTS
• Cohere-Aleph Alpha: The Sovereign AI Play Explained
  • Schwarz Group (Lidl's owner) backing the combined entity
  • Positioned as European sovereign alternative to US AI giants
  • TechCrunch
• US Intel Stake Quadruples to $36B Paper Gain
  • Original $8.9B investment made August 2025
  • Roughly $27B gain for US taxpayers on paper
  • Techmeme / Bloomberg

• Citizen Lab Exposes SS7 Phone-Tracking Campaigns
  • Two campaigns exploit Diameter protocols across 2G–5G
  • Spy firms abuse telecom weakness to track real-time locations
  • Techmeme / TechCrunch
• North Korean Hackers Vibe-Code Malware With AI
  • Group uses AI to generate malware and fake company sites
  • Researchers describe the group as 'moderately successful'
  • Wired

• China Warns US Chip Export Bills Risk Supply Chains
  • House Foreign Affairs advanced semiconductor export controls
  • Beijing: global supply disruption would follow if passed
  • Bloomberg
• AI Chip Boom Reshuffles Global Equity Rankings
  • Taiwan and South Korea vaulting past European nations
  • AI-driven semiconductor demand is fueling the market shift
  • Bloomberg

• Gruber Serves Claim Chowder on Cook-Ternus Transition
  • FT Nov 2025 Ternus report; Gurman called it 'simply false'
  • Every detail proved accurate; full media accountability piece
  • Daring Fireball
• Carlini: Black-Hat LLMs [Video]
  • Security researcher on offensive uses of language models
  • Surfaced on Hacker News; 9 points at time of indexing
  • YouTube / Hacker News