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FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026 (Christopher Kuo/Wall Street Journal)

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, suc...

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Anthropic researchers detail "model spec midtraining", which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training (Anthropic)

Anthropic researchers detail "model spec midtraini...

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Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side (Lingling Wei/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US and China are considering recurrin...

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A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule ba...

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Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret (Jerusalem Demsas/The Argument)

Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret (Jerusalem D...

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Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chi...

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Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)

Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relatio...

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Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)

Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's v...

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Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in l...

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DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters)

DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, ...

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Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says A...

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Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano...

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Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and u...

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Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Alt...

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Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 11%+ (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters)

Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B,...

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Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (Axios)

Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use...

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Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters fo...

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Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom (Bloomberg)

Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or drop...

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