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Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)
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Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
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Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
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Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (Nikkei Asia)
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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
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Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a primary supplier for Nvidia's ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the industry's first to integrate spatial and color detection (Reuters)
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Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing up to 12-week wait times in the US, with analysts citing strong demand from AI agent power users (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
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The EC awards a six-year, âŹ180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
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Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks (Financial Times)
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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 (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)
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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (Financial Times)
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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 (Axios)
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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 (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
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Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)