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Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games (Financial Times)

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As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not "get to make operational decisions" regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)

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TikTok USDS says users "may temporarily experience lags in posting content" due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.30B est., a profit of $38.7M, compared with a loss of $86.3M a year earlier (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

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Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service "in the coming months"; some shows will be available on Audible (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

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Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a "desktop-like multi-window experience" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Amazon Publisher Services, which helps websites run ad auctions, is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

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All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with "extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative" short-term PR (Wall Street Journal)

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Anthropic says voice mode for Claude Code is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure (Andre Revilla/Engadget)

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Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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