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Ship Testing US Hormuz Blockade Appears to U-Turn After Crossing (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Carlyle Draws $1.5 Billion for Asset-Backed Fund in First Round (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Amazon to Pay $11.5 Billion for Globalstar, Signs Apple iPhone Deal (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Opinion | When Manufacturing Recycling Goes to Waste (wsj.com)
· wsj
Amazon buying Globalstar; Apple satellite services to use Amazon Leo (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Warsh Hearing for Fed Chair Set for Next Week, Scott Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Bloodborne is being turned into an R-rated animated film (theverge.com)
· theverge
Citigroup Posts Highest Quarterly Revenue in a Decade (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Analysts believe Apple taking a highly unusual step, may double Mac user base (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Dollar and VIX Are Back in Tandem as Iran War Usurps Tariff Bets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar in Satellite Cellular Connection Push (wsj.com)
· wsj
Lucid Motors names new CEO, lands more money from Uber and Saudis (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Iran War Lifts Africa Debt Costs That Have Surged Since Pandemic (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
EU to Bet on Electricification to Avert Recurring Energy Crises (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
KKR Limits Redemptions From Asset-Based Fund After 7.2% Sought Withdrawals (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Albertsons Swings to a Loss on Charge From Opioid Settlement (wsj.com)
· wsj
Rolls-Royce launches new two-seater electric car (bbc.com)
· bbc-tech
Citi Logs Best Returns in Five Years as Fraser Revamp Takes Hold (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
You can attend Pokémon EDM shows in Los Angeles and London (engadget.com)
· engadget
BMW Group Vehicle Sales Fall on Weakness in China and U.S. (wsj.com)
· wsj
Dead Internet Theory and Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader (youtube.com)
· sequoia
Merz Says EU €90 Billion Loan for Kyiv Should Be Disbursed Now (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Watch Earth Day and International Dance Day Activity Challenges Launching Later This Month (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Property Mogul Targets Top Texas Finance Job With Anti-Tax Pitch (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents (claude.com)
· anthropic
Iran Weighs Pausing Its Hormuz Shipping to Avoid Derailing Talks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Horizons Middle East & Africa 04/14/2026 (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UK Chancellor En Route to Washington Calls Out ‘Folly’ of US War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
More bark than bite? NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Lucid Secures $750 Million in New Funding, Names New CEO (wsj.com)
· wsj
Apple Removes Fake Crypto Wallet App That Stole $9.5 Million From Mac Users (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
UK Pays Highest Yield for 10-Year Gilt Sale Since 2008 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UK Pays Highest Yield for 10-Year Gilt Sale Since 2008 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
US, Iran Weigh More Talks; United Pitches Tie-Up with American Airlines | Bloomberg Brief 4/14/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)
· hn · HN
Microsoft Surface price hikes the latest reason to buy a MacBook Neo (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Warning Sign for Stocks Seen in Surging Inflation Expectations (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture (news.ycombinator.com)
· hn · HN
The 23 Best iPhone 17 Cases and Accessories Out of More Than 100 (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
The Case Against Gameplay Loops (blog.joeyschutz.com)
· hn · HN
CarMax Swings to Loss After Cutting Prices to Bring Back Shoppers (wsj.com)
· wsj
France's Lescure on Iran Ceasefire, Energy, Economy (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)
· hn · HN
Swedish Green Steel Startup Stegra Gets $1.65 Billion Funding to Complete New Plant (wsj.com)
· wsj
The Morning After: Meta is reportedly working on an AI model of Mark Zuckerberg (engadget.com)
· engadget
China’s Teapot Refiners Fight to Survive Deepening Oil Crisis (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Wells Fargo Misses Q1 Net Interest Income, Loan Estimates (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
France’s Lescure Sees Economy Overcoming Short-Term Slowdown (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Austria’s Bawag to Take Over Irish Bank Permanent TSB in $1.9 Billion Deal (wsj.com)
· wsj
Sony is developing a Bloodborne animated film adaptation (engadget.com)
· engadget
Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk (wsj.com)
· wsj
Lucid Names CEO as Saudi PIF, Uber Commit Another $750 Million (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
These Are the 3 Power Tools You Need (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
Utilities Plan to Spend $1.4 Trillion Over Next Five Years to Power AI Boom (wsj.com)
· wsj
What Higher Oil Prices Mean for Nissan, EVs and Auto Demand (wsj.com)
· wsj
Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk (wsj.com)
· wsj
JPMorgan Traders Post Highest-Ever Quarterly Revenue (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Investors Slash Growth Views by Most in Four Years, BofA Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Dow Taps 30-Year Veteran Karen Carter to Succeed Jim Fitterling as CEO (wsj.com)
· wsj
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
The Fanfare Around Geese Actually Was a Psyop (wired.com)
· wired
Somalia Parliament’s Mandate Expires Without Elections in Sight (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
US, Iran Weigh Further Truce Talks With Trump Blockade Underway | The Pulse 4/14 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
What is jj and why should I care? (steveklabnik.github.io)
· hn · HN
Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own (wired.com)
· wired
Why You Should Consider a Coros Watch Instead of a Garmin (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
Czech Premier Chides Central Bank Rates for Hindering Lending (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran War: Tehran & US Weigh Further Talks, Trump Blockade Underway | The Opening Trade 4/14/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Emerging-Market Assets Rally on Iran War Resolution Bets (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Italy’s Meloni Says It’s ‘Too Early’ to Tap Russian Gas (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Eurofins Shares Rise after Selling Electronics Division to U.S. Safety Group (wsj.com)
· wsj
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
J&J’s First-Quarter Sales Grow on Cancer-Drug Strength (wsj.com)
· wsj
Macron, Starmer to Hold Hormuz Transit Summit in Paris on Friday (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Israel and Lebanon Set for US Talks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UK Sovereign Sets Bond Demand Record as Yield Hunters Pile In (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple Launches New All-in-One Apple Business Platform for Device Management, Email, and Customer Engagement (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
BlackRock Posts 46% Gain in Quarterly Profit on Growth in Investment Fees (wsj.com)
· wsj
Apple Releases Second iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5 and macOS Tahoe 26.5 Public Betas (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Turkey School Shooting Leaves 16 Wounded, Gunman Dead (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
BlackRock Pulls in $130 Billion of Client Cash, Driven by ETFs (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Cocoa Price Crash Spurs Hopes for Demand Recovery, Cheaper Candy (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Best Streaming Bundles and Streaming Deals of April 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion (wired.com)
· wired
Gemini in Google Chrome Gets a Skills Library for Saving Custom AI Prompts (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
The Gamblers Behind One of Chess's Weirdest Unsolved Cheating Mysteries Have Been Unmasked (wired.com)
· wired
OpenAI’s Memos, Frontier, Amazon and Anthropic (stratechery.com)
· stratechery
Apple @ Work Podcast: PocketMDM brings Apple Business Manager to your pocket (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
A sleek, wearable airbag for cyclists is nearly here (theverge.com)
· theverge
Eurofins Shares Rise after Selling Electronics Division to U.S. Safety Group (wsj.com)
· wsj
Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
China’s Yancoal Buys Australia Mine Stake for Up to $2.4 Billion (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran War Wipes Out Global Oil Demand Growth This Year (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Best Mattresses for Stomach Sleepers, According to a Sleep Science Coach (2026) (wired.com)
· wired
UK’s Intertek Mulls Breakup to Lift Product Testing Firm’s Value (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Malaysia’s Fuel Subsidy Bill Swells to $1.8 Billion in April (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
$133 vs. $99. What Is the Real Price for a Barrel of Oil? (wsj.com)
· wsj
A New Horror Movie Depicts Realistic Snuff. That’s Not the Most Disturbing Thing About It (wired.com)
· wired
The Corporate Team-Building Exercise Where You Have to Climb on the Boss (wsj.com)
· wsj
Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Stock Investors Look Past Iran War Despite Shaky Ceasefire (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
HSBC CEO Elhedery Says Hormuz Disruption Felt Globally (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Golden Goose Starts Marketing Bond Sale Linked to PE Firm Buyout (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Vietnam Ready to Act to Stabilize Dong, Will Boost Liquidity (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Chinese Tire Venture Service Long Files for Record Pakistan IPO (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Treasuries Climb as Oil Prices Drop on Iran Peace Deal Optimism (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
GOP campaigns go all-in on AI, Dems not so much (axios.com)
· axios
Trump's incredible shrinking tent (axios.com)
· axios
Private Jet Company Bond Ups Bombardier Commitment to $5 Billion (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The Moms Who Sponcon Their Daughters’ First Periods (wired.com)
· wired
Inertia moves to commercialize one of the world’s most elaborate science experiments (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)
· hn · HN
Korea’s Pension Fund NPS Expands Currency Hedging to Bolster Won (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
What to Expect From JPMorgan, Citi After Goldman's Bond-Trading Miss (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
IEA Says Gulf Can Resume Half of Shut Oil Fields Weeks After War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
German Solar Boom Saves Nine LNG Cargoes to Ease Iran War Shock (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)
· hn · HN
Aluminum Market Faces Two Million Tons Deficit, ING Says (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
DaVinci Resolve 21 Adds Photo Editing and AI Search Tools (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Backblaze has stopped backing up your data (rareese.com)
· hn · HN
ING Plans SRT Tied to Project Finance, Including for Oil and Gas (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
The new Trump Phone design is here (theverge.com)
· theverge
Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Equinor Halves Scatec Stake as Focus Grows on Oil, Gas Output (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sika Shares Rise After Sales Beat Market Views (wsj.com)
· wsj
Global Oil Demand Heads for Contraction As Iran War Chokes Flows, IEA Says (wsj.com)
· wsj
Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (About Amazon) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Switzerland Says It’s Ready to Help in Talks to End Iran War (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
ECB’s Rehn Says Inflation to Quicken But Rate Path Not Locked In (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Drone Hits on Russia Ports Put Indian Refining at Risk, IEA Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran War Wipes Out Global Oil Demand Growth This Year, IEA Says (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)
· hn · HN
EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
GoPro goes bigger and pro-er with support for Micro Four Thirds lenses (theverge.com)
· theverge
Kraken parent Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at $13.3B (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Goldman Executive Sells $13 Million Hong Kong Home to PE Veteran (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
Bremont Is Sending a Watch to the Moon’s Surface (wired.com)
· wired
Airlines Push European Union to Ease Impact of Iran Conflict (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple's 2026 Studio Display XDR Drops to New Record Low Prices on Expercom (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Imperial Brands to Post Rise in Adjusted Operating Profit (wsj.com)
· wsj
US-Sanctioned Tanker Tests Trump's Hormuz Blockade | Daybreak Europe 4/14/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
It's Positive While Talks Are the Focus: 3-Minutes MLIV (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (go.theregister.com)
· theregister
The Most WIRED Watches at Watches and Wonders 2026 (wired.com)
· wired
Asia Markets Begin Clawing Back War Losses on Easing Tensions (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Jon Prosser Still Not Fully Cooperating in Apple's iOS 26 Trade Secrets Lawsuit (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
LVMH Misses Estimates; Kering, Hermes Set to Report (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
PolyPeptide Studies Strategic Options as Private Equity Circles (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Apple's M4 iPad Air Available for Up to $100 Off on Amazon (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
The Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)
· hn · HN
Danske Bank Error Exposed 20,000 Protected Client Addresses (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Can Claude Fly a Plane? (so.long.thanks.fish)
· hn · HN
Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com)
· hn · HN
BP Sees Exceptional Oil Trading Result as Middle East War Fuels Volatility (wsj.com)
· wsj
Stegra Gets €1.4 Billion From Wallenberg-Led Group to Save Plant (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
BP Says Oil Trading Result Was ‘Exceptional’ as Prices Soared (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity (Reuters) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely (devforum.roblox.com)
· hn · HN
Insight with Haslinda Amin 4/14/2026 (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres (github.com)
· hn · HN
FTSE 100 Futures, Pound Steady on Hopes Over Talks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Publicis Posts Top-Line Growth Despite Hit From Middle East War (wsj.com)
· wsj
Apple Plans One of Europe's Biggest Stores in Zurich (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Apple and Amazon Ink Satellite Deal Amid Globalstar Takeover (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)
· hn · HN
China’s Battery Exports Surge as War Drives Energy-Supply Crunch (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page (engadget.com)
· engadget
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
UpDown: Efficient Manycore based on Many Threading & Scalable Memory Parallelism (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
· hn · HN
KKR’s Sheldon Sees Diversification as Key in Volatile Market (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components (tanstack.com)
· hn · HN
Asian Firms Rush to Bond Market in Busiest Day in Three Months (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Iran War Pressures Malaysia’s Energy, Investment Outlook (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
KKR Sees Private Credit Resilient Amid Global Risks (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
The China Show 4/14/2026 (Video) (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
10 Reasons to Wait for the iPhone 18 Pro (macrumors.com)
· macrumors
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (quantamagazine.org)
· hn · HN
Euroclear’s Urbain Eyes Asia–Europe Bridge Role (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
Averos Strategies on Iran War, Upcoming Trump-Xi Summit (bloomberg.com)
· bloomberg
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