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Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025’s end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google’s stake would be worth $100B (Bloomberg)

April 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight —…

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A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

April 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight —…

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OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

April 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight —…

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A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

April 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight —…

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Ohio moves to fine Kalshi $5M over illegal sports betting

April 15, 2026

Ohio regulators are ramping up strain on prediction market platform Kalshi, proposing a $5 million…

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Minnesota advances controversial felony ban on prediction markets as scrutiny grows

April 15, 2026

Minnesota lawmakers are shifting forward with a proposal that will outlaw most prediction markets, pushing…

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Arizona ruling enters Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation fight against Kalshi

April 15, 2026

A authorized struggle unfolding in Wisconsin over prediction market buying and selling is now drawing…

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Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

April 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky Pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs Stripe…

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SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)

April 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky Pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs Stripe…

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Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company’s business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

April 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky Pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs Stripe…

Browsing: News

Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025’s end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google’s stake would be worth $100B (Bloomberg)

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; they generated $122M+ in revenue (Bloomberg)

Ohio moves to fine Kalshi $5M over illegal sports betting

Minnesota advances controversial felony ban on prediction markets as scrutiny grows

Arizona ruling enters Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation fight against Kalshi

Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company’s business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

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