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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

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18

US To Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone In Philippines (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-18 Manufacturing Philippines

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-18

Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-18 IPO

India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and others to pre-install the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-18 India Google Samsung Apple

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-18

Inside an Underground Guide: How Threat Actors Vet Stolen Credit Card Shops (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-18

Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 AI Equity

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (www.ft.com)
2026-4-17 Interview AI

Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-17 Asset

Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is a “demo” (www.politico.eu)
2026-4-17

China fines leading food delivery apps, including Alibaba and Meituan, a combined ~$528M, the largest fine for the sector since the 2015 food safety law (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 China Alibaba

Webinar: From phishing to fallout — Why MSPs must rethink both security and recovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on trades and plans to launch in the coming weeks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-17

Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules (www.theguardian.com)
2026-4-17

Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-17 India

SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months (www.ft.com)
2026-4-17 Microsoft

Reed Hastings Is Leaving Netflix After 29 Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 Netflix

AdGuard's VPN and ad blocker bundle is now only $39.97 (was $439.39) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 VPN

Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (www.axios.com)
2026-4-17 Pentagon

10 Weird Facts You Might Not Know About Mars (listverse.com)
2026-4-17

Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17

Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% (www.ft.com)
2026-4-17 Germany Uber

CISA flags Apache ActiveMQ flaw as actively exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

Microsoft: Some Windows servers enter reboot loops after April patches (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 Microsoft

Intel's New Core Series 3 Is Its Answer To the MacBook Neo (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 Intel MacBook

Man gets 30 months for selling thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Robot Intelligence

Recently leaked Windows zero-days now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

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