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The Iran War and the End of the American Empire (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-25 U.S. Iran

Mexico enacts Universal Healthcare, Backward U.S. Disables Own (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-25 U.S. Mexico

Green-Energy European Countries to Save $10 bn in Hormuz Price Shock (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-25 Europe Energy

An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-25 Elon Musk

Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Intel

The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, a roughly $27B paper gain since they announced the investment in August 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Intel

Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages (9to5google.com)
2026-4-25 Mobile Samsung

A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 Oracle

Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 (www.pymnts.com)
2026-4-25

LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-25 LinkedIn

Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium Bill (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (anthropic.com)
2026-4-25

Viva Brasil! A 3X In The Making (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-4-25

Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-25 Trump AI Republican

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete (www.economist.com)
2026-4-25 Europe

A US judge dismisses Elon Musk's fraud claims in his lawsuit against OpenAI at his request, and plans to proceed to trial on other claims (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 Elon Musk

Israeli man arrested for wearing kippah with Palestinian flag (www.rt.com)
2026-4-25 Israel

ADT confirms data breach after ShinyHunters leak threat (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-25

BMW Is One Step Closer To Selling You a Color-Changing Car (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 New York Coinbase CFTC

Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 China AI

South African police chief suspended over $21 mn scandal (www.rt.com)
2026-4-25 Africa South Africa

Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-25 AI San Francisco

Brazil's Finance Minister Dario Durigan says the country has blocked prediction market platforms and tightened derivatives rules to curb “bet-like” products (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-25 Brazil

Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Samsung Could Lose Money On Smartphones For the First Time (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25 Samsung

Bitwarden CLI Is the Next Compromise In Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-25

The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future (x.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-25 Intel Nvidia

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