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ARCHIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 2 · 40 STORIESAnthropic Acquires Biotech AI Startup Coefficient Bio for Around $400 Million
Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a startup developing artificial intelligence tools for biology and drug discovery, in a deal valued at approximately $40...
LinkedIn Data Shows 640,000 AI-Related Jobs Added Since 2023 as New Roles Emerge Across Industries
Companies added approximately 640,000 AI-related jobs between 2023 and 2025, according to LinkedIn job posting data reported by the Wall Street Journal, as dema...
Microsoft Pivoted Copilot to Direct Sales After Wall Street Pushed Back on Free Bundling
Microsoft changed its strategy for selling Copilot, its AI assistant product, after receiving direct feedback from Wall Street analysts that bundling the produc...
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Anthropic Researchers Find Claude Has Functional Emotional Representations, Company Says
Anthropic has published research indicating that Claude, its AI assistant, contains internal representations that perform functions analogous to human emotions,...
Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
Google has launched Gemma 4, the latest generation of its open-weight AI model family, and simultaneously switched the licensing terms from the more restrictive...
OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show TBPN in Push to Build Media Presence
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a popular technology industry talk show known for its candid conversations with founders, investors, and operators, as the AI company ...
ByteDance Helps OpenClaw Launch Official China Mirror, Raising Geopolitical Alarm
OpenClaw, the AI software marketplace and agent platform, has launched an official China-facing version of its service with ByteDance providing the server infra...
Alibaba Releases Third Proprietary AI Model in Three Days, Sharpening Focus on Profit
Alibaba Group has unveiled its third closed-source artificial intelligence model in as many days, signaling a deliberate shift in strategy toward building propr...
AI Agents Are Quietly Monitoring Workers and Reporting Missed Tasks to Managers
A new class of workplace AI agents is tracking employee activity and sending automated performance alerts to managers without workers being explicitly aware of ...
Amazon Hits Sellers with 3.5% Fuel and Logistics Surcharge as Iran War Drives Up Energy Costs
Amazon has imposed a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on US and Canadian sellers using its fulfillment services, the company said Wednesday, citing rising glob...
Geely Chairman Says Global Auto Industry Has Too Many Factories, Pivots to Asset-Sharing Model
Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who acquired Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has concluded that the global ...
IBM and Arm Announce Strategic Collaboration to Shape the Future of Enterprise Computing
IBM and Arm have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing enterprise computing architecture, with the two companies planning to work together on i...
SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering that would value the rocket and satellite company at approximately $1.75 trillion, acco...
Chinese Optics Firm Innolight Confidentially Files for Up to $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO
Zhongji Innolight Co., a Chinese manufacturer of optical transceivers used in data center networking, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public of...
Oracle Cuts 10,000 Jobs in India, Shedding 20% of Its Indian Workforce in AI Pivot
Oracle Corp. has laid off approximately 10,000 employees in India, representing roughly 20% of its Indian workforce, as the company accelerates a strategic shif...
Tech Industry Moves to Weaken Colorado's Right-to-Repair Law Before It Takes Effect
Technology companies and their lobbyists are pushing to amend Colorado's landmark right-to-repair legislation before it takes full effect, in what consumer advo...
Lawsuit Claims Perplexity's Incognito Mode Shared Private Chats With Google and Meta
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that Perplexity AI's incognito browsing mode is "a sham" that routes users' private search sessions to Google and Meta without...
Meta Tells Oversight Board It May End Funding After 2028, Sources Say
Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding the body after 2028, Platformer reported, in a development that would...
CFTC Sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois for Trying to Regulate Prediction Markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed lawsuits against Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois, accusing the three states of improperly attempting to re...
UK Social Media Users Are Posting Less as Passive Video Consumption Rises, Ofcom Reports
The share of adult social media users in the United Kingdom who actively post, share, or comment on platforms has declined, with more users shifting toward pass...
Supabase in Talks to Raise $500 Million at $10 Billion Valuation, Led by Singapore's GIC
Supabase, the open-source database startup built on PostgreSQL, is in discussions to raise approximately $500 million in a funding round that would value the co...
Flipboard Launches Surf, a Fediverse Client and Custom Feed Reader for the Open Social Web
Flipboard has launched Surf, a new standalone app that functions simultaneously as a client for fediverse platforms including Bluesky and Mastodon, a feed reade...
India's Sarvam AI Raising $300. 350 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Challenge US and Chinese AI Leaders
Sarvam AI, India's most prominent homegrown artificial intelligence startup, is close to raising between $300 million and $350 million in a funding round that w...
MIT Explores Loosening Startup Restrictions for Faculty and Students Amid AI Boom
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is exploring ways to make it easier for faculty and students to pursue their own startups and benefit financially from...
Treeline Raises Series A from Andreessen Horowitz to Build AI-Native Replacement for Legacy Corporate IT
Treeline, a startup developing an artificial intelligence and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT infrastructure, has raised a Series A funding ro...
Claude Code Source Code Leak Weaponized to Distribute Vidar Infostealer Malware on GitHub
Threat actors have exploited the recent leak of Claude Code's source code to distribute Vidar information-stealing malware through fake GitHub repositories, acc...
Hims & Hers Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Data Over Several Days in February
Telehealth company Hims & Hers has disclosed that its customer support system was compromised by hackers who exfiltrated customer ticket data over a period of s...
ShinyHunters Claim Theft of More Than 3 Million Cisco Records, Threatening Public Leak
The ShinyHunters hacking group has claimed responsibility for stealing more than three million records from Cisco Systems and is threatening to release the data...
Drift Protocol Loses $280 Million After Hackers Seize Security Council Administrative Control
The Drift Protocol, a decentralized finance trading platform built on the Solana blockchain, lost at least $280 million after a threat actor executed a sophisti...
Canadian Money Transfer App Duc Left Thousands of Driver's Licenses and Passports on Open Server
Duc, a Canadian money transfer app, exposed a large volume of sensitive customer identity documents including driver's licenses and passports on an Amazon-hoste...
FBI Declares Breach of Its Surveillance Network Infrastructure a 'Major Incident'
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally classified last month's breach of the networks it uses to manage wiretaps and other court-authorized surveillan...
Medtech Giant Stryker Fully Operational Three Weeks After Iranian-Linked Data-Wiping Cyberattack
Stryker Corporation, one of the world's largest medical technology companies, has restored full operations approximately three weeks after a destructive cyberat...
European Commission Cloud Infrastructure Breach Leaks Hundreds of Gigabytes of Data
A security breach of European Commission cloud infrastructure has resulted in the leak of hundreds of gigabytes of data, according to CPO Magazine, in what woul...
Intesa Sanpaolo Data Breach Exposes Monitoring Gaps at Europe's Second-Largest Bank
A data breach at Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank and one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, has revealed significant monitoring gaps in the ...
AI-Enabled Cyberattacks Will Outpace Human Defenses, Security Expert Kevin Mandia Warns
The speed of AI-enabled cyberattacks will soon exceed the capacity of human security teams to respond in real time, cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia warned in...
China's Intelligence Agency Warns That Smartwatches and Fitness Trackers Pose Serious Data Leak Risks
China's Ministry of State Security has issued a public warning that consumer wearable devices including smartwatches and fitness trackers pose significant data ...
Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM Instances Remain Exposed to Active Remote Code Execution Attacks
Internet security watchdog Shadowserver has identified more than 14,000 F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager instances exposed online that remain vulnerable to a cri...
US Electrical Equipment Shortage Threatens AI Data Center Buildout as Imports Stall
A domestic shortage of transformers and electrical switchgear is emerging as a significant constraint on the United States' artificial intelligence infrastructu...
$500 Million Data Center Approved for Construction Outside Indianapolis Despite Community Opposition
A $500 million data center project has received construction approval for a site outside Indianapolis, Indiana, proceeding over opposition from local residents ...
Related Digital Closes In on $16 Billion Financing for Oracle's Stargate Data Center in Michigan
Related Digital, a data center financing specialist, is nearing the close of a $16 billion financing package for Oracle's planned Stargate data center developme...