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- Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (Bloomberg)
- Google designates "back button hijacking" as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
- OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20, and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos's release to select companies and organizations; the UK AISI tested it (Politico)
- Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico)
- Oracle expands its partnership with fuel cell maker Bloom to procure up to 2.8 GW of capacity, after receiving a warrant to purchase $400M of Bloom stock (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- The US DOJ charges Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, with attempted murder and arson (Hadas Gold/CNN)
- Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, up from $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace in 2026 (The Information)
- AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
- Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
- Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)
- Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action is not "to influence federal elections" but is to educate the public on AI policy and promote safe AI (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)
- Xbox staff memo: Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Amazon unveils the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds "simultaneously" for in-flight Wi-Fi (Michael Kan/PCMag)
- Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google" and overstating its "run rate by roughly $8B" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
- Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia "has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape" (Bloomberg)
- Intel added $100B+ in market value and now has a $325B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy a fab in Ireland and join Terafab (Bloomberg)
- Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute)