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April 18, 2026, 2:15 AM
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Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications — OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company's science research initiative, and Bill Peebles … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.| Axios: |
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles … | Financial Times: |
Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks — Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude — Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users — The scarcity of Apple's littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh| Financial Times: |
Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ — Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google's venture arm and Nvidia| Reuters: |
Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later … | Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview — Some podcasts are self-recommending on the 'yep, I'm going to be breaking this one down' level. This was one of those. So here we go.| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech — The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers … | Siladitya Ray / Forbes: |
What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund — Topline — Elon Musk on Friday touted what he described as “Universal HIGH INCOME” as a solution to deal … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 — Cerebras, a producer of chips that run artificial intelligence models, on Friday filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CBRS.”| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than $50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in a funding round … | Reuters:NEW |
Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection — Hesai (2525.HK), China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's hotter than a real person? — Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event … 
Security update: Retiring weak TLS cipher suites — At Zoho Corp, we are dedicated to maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance security, we are transitioning to support only strong TLS cipher suites across all Zoho data centers (DCs).| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation … | Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 … | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 — Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East.
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World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Security update: Retiring weak TLS cipher suites — At Zoho Corp, we are dedicated to maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance security … 
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