A Year Later, Trump’s ‘Most Exclusive’ Memecoin Event Is a Lot Less Exclusive
Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to Tweety McTreason in exchange for investment in one
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Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget
Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI
Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.
Summary: Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs (10%
Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them
Summary: Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Coupe Electric at Auto China in Beijing, a 1,139 hp electric SUV that does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds with up
The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company
Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies
Former OpenAI research scientist launches new AI model for Tencent
Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model
Adobe bets on AI agents to stay at the center of marketing workflows
Adobe is rolling out autonomous agents to orchestrate work across its applications, a move that will reinforce its position at the core of content and
This is who’s developing Golden Dome’s orbital interceptors—if they’re ever built
The US Space Force released a list Friday of a dozen companies working on Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense
FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features
The Federal Communications Commission clarified this week that its sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers also affects portable hotspot devices. The FCC added a new
Thousands of EV Car Leases Are Ending Soon, Giving Buyers a More Affordable Option
The leases on hundreds of thousands of battery-powered cars and trucks will end in the next three years, and many will end up on used-car
Meta’s compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores
Meta is continuing its compute grab as the agentic AI race accelerates to a sprint. Today, the company announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services
CISA last in line for access to Anthropic Mythos
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) does not yet have access to Anthropic’s bug-hunting AI model, Claude Mythos, even though other government agencies
Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.