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Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (Nikkei Asia) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Yesterday
OpenAI Prepares to Launch Cost-Per-Click Ads In Coming Days (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Accel Raises $5 Billion for Late-Stage Investments (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Anthropic shrugs off VC funding offers valuing it at $800B+, for now (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)
· hn · HN
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 (deepmind.google)
· hn · HN
China’s Probe of Meta’s Manus Purchase Sends Startups Scrambling (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)
· hn · HN
OpenAI Plans New Pricing for ChatGPT Ads, Explores Other Upgrades (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Amazon Buys Globalstar, Delta to Add Leo, The Apple Angle (stratechery.com)
· stratechery
The next evolution of the Agents SDK (openai.com)
· openai
Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar and Expand Amazon Leo Satellite Network (businesswire.com)
· hn · HN
OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports (reuters.com)
· hn · HN
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Apr 14, 2026
Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Maine's legislature passed a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer (arstechnica.com)
· arstechnica
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar, Announces Agreement With Apple to Continue Service for iPhone and Apple Watch (aboutamazon.com)
· daringfireball
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on "weak-to-strong supervision", where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (Anthropic) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plugins used in thousands of websites (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com)
· hn · HN
Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Nvidia stock rose 18%+ over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Amazon to buy Globalstar for $11.57B in bid to flesh out its satellite biz (techcrunch.com)
· techcrunch
Apple and Amazon are teaming up to challenge Starlink’s smartphone ambitions (theverge.com)
· theverge
Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight (anthropic.com)
· anthropic
Amazon to Pay $11.5 Billion for Globalstar, Signs Apple iPhone Deal (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents (claude.com)
· anthropic
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
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
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
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
OpenAI’s Memos, Frontier, Amazon and Anthropic (stratechery.com)
· stratechery
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
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
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
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
A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)
· openai
Apr 13, 2026
Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft (axios.com)
· axios
Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities (aisi.gov.uk)
· hn · HN
OpenAI executive sends internal memo: ‘The market is as competitive as I have ever seen it’ (theverge.com)
· theverge
Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days after DOD designated the company a supply chain risk (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Microsoft Slowed AI Spending. Now It’s Playing Catchup (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
OpenAI Memo Cites “Staggering” Demand for Joint AWS Product, Says Microsoft “Limited” Business (theinformation.com)
· theinformation
No company in American history has ever grown like Anthropic (axios.com)
· axios
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia "has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape" (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Former AI boss John Giannandrea officially leaving Apple this week after ‘resting and vesting’ (9to5mac.com)
· 9to5mac
Intel added $100B+ in market value after its stock soared 53% in nine sessions following announcements to repurchase an Ireland fab and join the Terafab project (Bloomberg) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and investment, and more (Stanford HAI) (techmeme.com)
· techmeme
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal "limited our ability" to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) (techmeme.com)
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