Techmeme
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LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times)
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The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC)
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Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to "help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates" (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (John Coogan/@johncoogan)
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Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
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Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)
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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 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026 (Financial Times)
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An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence", and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose 24%+ YoY to 18,720 in March, taking Q1's tech total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)