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OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 Energy Nvidia

UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 AI Iran

Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 IPO

Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; the $60M April 7 contract is under dispute (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-9 Iran

UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 U.S. AI

A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Korea IPO AI Robot

TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8

Z.ai raises prices for its most advanced AI model, GLM-5.1, by at least 8% compared to GLM-5 Turbo, joining Alibaba and Tencent as demand for agentic AI surges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Alibaba AI Tencent

Kuka, one of the largest industrial robotics suppliers, says it is prioritizing US and Asia investments, as Europe's industrial companies are slow to adopt AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Europe Asia AI Robot

Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 China AI Nvidia

A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Iran

Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Microsoft AI

Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 iPhone Apple

The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-8 Russia

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI

MLB rolls out “robot umps”, or an Automated Ball-Strike System, using Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Robot Sony

Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Google

Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7 Australia Startup AI

Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-7

Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-5 Russia VPN

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 China AI Robot

Sources: Microsoft's Judson Althoff said Copilot sales hit “some pretty big audacious goals” in Q3; only 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4 Microsoft

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 Japan Microsoft AI

A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 China

Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 AI

Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 IPO SpaceX

Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-3 Coinbase

Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-2 AI Layoffs

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