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Amy Harder / Axios : Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays —  The world's largest data center project — backed by Trump allies and bearing his name — is stalled by delays and logistical hurdles that could stop it before it even starts.

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums —  Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data.

Axios : Sources say NSA is using Mythos Preview, and a source says it is also being used widely within the DoD, despite Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk —  - The department moved in February to cut off Anthropic and force its vendors to follow suit.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures —  Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp's book “The Technological Republic.”

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: the glowing “26” in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months —  Also: Memory shortages could push back new Macs.  —  Apple's WWDC 2026 teaser provides a glimpse of the revamped Siri interface coming in iOS 27.

Qianer Liu / The Information : Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models —  Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

Amanda Mull / Bloomberg : A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at $10B+, which has found success by using data analysis and close manufacturer ties to keep prices low —  The online apparel retailer has become a $10 billion-plus e-commerce giant by mastering the art of the supply chain.

Kevin Roose / New York Times : A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems —  A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian —  Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding.

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk : Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze —  Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.

Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg : 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 —  Anthropic's Mythos and similar AI tools can identify threats and vulnerabilities faster than small teams can fix them, putting the internet at risk.

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times : 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 —  Company expands accommodation options alongside home rentals but analysts warn of stiff competition

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands —  Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” …

Brent Crane / Bloomberg : 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 —  The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.

Nikkei Asia : 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 —  TOKYO/SEOUL — A shortage of memory chips appears likely to continue until around 2027, with the top U.S. and South Korean …

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : 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 —  Funding to autonomous vehicle startups has seen a massive resurgence in 2026, more than tripling so far this year compared to all of 2025 globally, Crunchbase data shows.

Reuters : 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 —  Hesai (2525.HK), China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable …

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal : 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 —  The scarcity of Apple's littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh

Leo Marchandon / Reuters : The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech —  The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers …

Financial Times : 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 —  Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat