Tech

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-18 Europe

Sources suggest Anthropic's holding back from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-4-18

Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

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 (www.forbes.com)
2026-4-18 AI Layoffs

Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (www.ft.com)
2026-4-18 AI

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 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-18

Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

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 (thezvi.substack.com)
2026-4-18 China Interview Nvidia

Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI as the company consolidates around enterprise AI and its forthcoming “superapp” (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18 AI

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-18

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-4-18

Mozilla 'Thunderbolt' Is an Open-Source AI Client Focused On Control and Self-Hosting (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 AI Mozilla

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-18 Layoffs

In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-18

Figma stock drops ~7% after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 (sherwood.news)
2026-4-18

Amazon's New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Amazon

Payouts King ransomware uses QEMU VMs to bypass endpoint security (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-18

Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a valuation of more than $50B, not including the investment, with Nvidia participating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-18 Nvidia

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-18 Startup AI

OpenAI Starts Offering a Biology-Tuned LLM (science.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-4-18

Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Microsoft

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 (digiday.com)
2026-4-18

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18 AI Netflix

Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Amazon

China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-4-18 China iPhone

Grinex exchange blames "Western intelligence" for $13.7M crypto hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-18 Intelligence

Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-18 AI

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