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ARCHIVE FRIDAY, APRIL 24 · 30 STORIES
Thinking Machines Lab hires talent from Meta as AI talent war escalates
Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring researchers from Meta at a notable pace, even as Meta has poached seven of the startup's founding members. The two-way tal...
Cohere merges with Aleph Alpha in $20B deal to build 'transatlantic AI powerhouse'
Cohere, the Canada-based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it would merge with Germany-based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The deal, which has ...
Stanford Professor James Zou Seeks $100 Million for Human Intelligence AI Startup
Stanford University professor James Zou is aiming to raise approximately $100 million at a roughly $1 billion valuation for his startup Human Intelligence, acco...
DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs prepares to test AI-designed drugs in humans
Isomorphic Labs, the biotech company spun out of Google DeepMind, says it is preparing to begin human clinical trials of drugs designed entirely by artificial i...
Google commits up to $40 billion in Anthropic as AI infrastructure race accelerates
Google plans to invest as much as $40 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic to secure computing capacity for the company’s most advanced models. ...
QumulusAI Secures $45 Million Convertible Note for GPU Cloud Expansion
AI cloud startup QumulusAI has secured a $45 million convertible note facility from ATW Partners, with $15 million already provided. The company said the capit...
DeepSeek previews V4 AI model, claims parity with top US systems
Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its next-generation V4 model on Friday, saying the open-source system can compete with leading closed-source m...
SoftBank and Intel's ZAM memory project wins Japanese government subsidy
SAIMEMORY, a SoftBank subsidiary working with Intel, announced that Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization has selected its Z-Ang...
Oklo partners with Nvidia and Los Alamos on AI-driven nuclear infrastructure
US small modular reactor developer Oklo has partnered with Nvidia and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to advance nuclear infrastructure, AI-enabled research,...
DeepSeek releases V4 Pro and V4 Flash preview models at fraction of frontier prices
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both featuring a 1 million token context window and a Mixture of...
Anthropic Expands Claude Integrations to Lifestyle Apps Including Spotify and Instacart
Anthropic is expanding its directory of connected services for its Claude AI chatbot to include lifestyle and consumer applications. The platform can now link ...
X-energy Stock Rises 27% in Nasdaq Debut After Upsized IPO
X-energy's stock rose in its debut on the Nasdaq, opening at $30.11 and closing at $29.20, up 27% from its initial public offering price of $23 per share. The ...
Meta and Microsoft cuts of more than 20,000 jobs renew fears of AI-driven labor disruption
Meta and Microsoft disclosed plans Thursday that could eliminate more than 20,000 positions combined, amplifying concerns that artificial intelligence is trigge...
Microsoft lets IT admins uninstall Copilot from enterprise devices
Microsoft says IT administrators can now uninstall the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant from enterprise devices using a new policy setting, which became bro...
Intel beats expectations for sixth straight quarter as AI CPU demand surges
Intel reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $13.6 billion on 23 April, beating consensus estimates of $12.42 billion by 9.4% and the midpoint of its own Januar...
India's IT sector sees surge in replacement hiring as Gen Z tenures shrink
India's IT sector is experiencing a sharp increase in replacement hiring as Gen Z professionals leave jobs faster than previous generations, according to staffi...
Porsche adds all-electric Cayenne coupe to EV lineup
Porsche will begin selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe in late summer, adding a sportier body style to the expanding electric lineup of its flagship SUV. The...
Maine governor vetoes data center moratorium bill
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have halted construction of large data centers in the state until fall 2027. The legislation passed both...
AI startups accused of inflating revenue by blurring ARR and CARR metrics
Scott Stevenson, cofounder and CEO of legal AI startup Spellbook, says some AI startups are inflating revenue figures by reporting contracted annually recurring...
Enterprise software captured 52% of all VC funding in 2025, Sapphire Ventures report finds
Enterprise software captured 52% of all venture capital funding in 2025, up from 41% in 2024 and an average of around 29% for most of the prior decade, accordin...
Global edtech funding collapses from $16.7B to under $3B as investors pivot to AI
Global investment in education technology has collapsed from a peak of $16.7 billion in 2021 to less than $3 billion in 2025, according to data from Tracxn, a B...
ADT confirms data breach after extortion group threatens leak
Home security company ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to publish stolen data unless a ransom is paid. In a st...
Chained Palo Alto CVEs expose 13,000 devices, revealing gaps in CVSS scoring
In November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces by chaining two ...
Firestarter Malware Persists on Cisco Firewalls Despite Updates and Patches
Cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and U.K. are warning about a custom malware called Firestarter that persists on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices r...
Researchers find 26 fake crypto wallet apps on Apple App Store stealing seed phrases
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal ...
Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants found for sale on Alibaba
Medical details from 500,000 participants in the health data charity UK Biobank have been discovered for sale on the Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba. Data for ...
Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Emerge as Top LLM Security Threat
Indirect prompt injection attacks have emerged as a top security risk for large language models, with researchers now documenting real-world examples of these a...
Nobles County, Minnesota Rejects $4 Billion Data Center Proposal
Local officials in Nobles County, Minnesota, have rejected a proposed $4 billion data center project planned by renewable energy developer Geronimo Power. The ...
Keppel begins construction on floating data center in Singapore
Keppel has started construction on a floating data center project in Singapore, the company said as part of its first quarter 2026 earnings update. Keppel firs...
Airsys launches rack-level liquid cooling system for mid-density AI workloads
Airsys has announced the next generation of LiquidRack, a rack-level liquid cooling platform designed for mid-density AI, data center, telecom, and edge environ...