AI
Meta to Lay Off 8,000 as 2026 AI Capex Balloons to $115B–$135B
Meta is cutting 10% of its workforce and killing 6,000 open roles to offset Superintelligence Labs spend. 2026 capex guidance rises to $115B–$135B, up from $72B in 2025.
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AI
Anthropic Hits $1 Trillion Implied Valuation on Secondary Markets, Passing OpenAI
Forge Global CEO Kelly Rodriques confirms Anthropic shares clear the $1 trillion mark on secondary markets — ahead of OpenAI's $880B — after revenue run-rate jumped from $9B to $30B in one quarter.
AI
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 to ChatGPT and API at $5 / $30 Per Million Tokens
OpenAI's smartest model is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. API priced at $5 input / $30 output per million tokens, with a 1M context window and a GPT-5.5-pro tier at $30 / $180.
AI
SpaceX Offers $60B for Cursor With $10B Upfront AI Collaboration Fee
SpaceX has offered $60 billion for Cursor plus a $10 billion upfront AI collaboration fee, preempting Cursor's planned $50 billion fundraise hours before it was due to close.
Funding
GSR Launches First ETF on Nasdaq: BESO Holds BTC, ETH, SOL With Active Weekly Rebalance
Market maker GSR has launched its first ETF, the GSR Crypto Core3 (BESO) on Nasdaq: an actively managed multi-asset fund holding BTC, ETH and SOL with staking-income participation.
AI
AngelList Opens USVC Fund to All U.S. Investors at $500 Minimum, With xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Inside
AngelList's new USVC fund is open to all U.S. investors regardless of accreditation, charges a flat 1% fee with no carry, and already holds stakes in xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and four other private companies.
Regulation & Policy
FTX Sold Its Cursor Stake for $200K in 2023; at SpaceX’s $60B Offer It Would Be Worth $3B
Alameda bought 5% of Cursor's parent Anysphere for $200K in 2022. The FTX bankruptcy estate sold the stake in 2023 for the same $200K — worth roughly $3B at SpaceX's new $60B buyout offer.
Bitcoin
Hive Raises $115M, Keel Sells Paraguay Mine as Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI Infrastructure
On April 22, Hive Digital raised $115M via convertible notes for GPUs, and Keel Infrastructure closed its Paraguay mining facility sale for $13M, funneling proceeds into HPC/AI pipeline build-out.
AI
OpenAI Has Hired Six Senior Coinbase Marketing Execs in 18 Months, Report Says
OpenAI has hired six senior marketing executives from Coinbase over the past 18 months, including former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch, who became OpenAI's first CMO in 2024.
AI
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter, a 1.5B-Parameter On-Device PII Stripper
OpenAI released Privacy Filter, a 1.5B-parameter Apache 2.0 model that masks 8 categories of sensitive data locally before content leaves the device — 96% accurate on PII-Masking-300k.
AI
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents: Persistent Cloud Assistants That Keep Working When You Don’t
OpenAI introduced Workspace Agents — persistent cloud-based assistants in ChatGPT that run on schedules or triggers, connect to external apps, and retain context across projects.
AI
Google Cloud Debuts Two New AI Chips, Claims 3× Training Speed Over Prior TPUs
Google's new TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference promise 3× faster training and 80% better price-performance vs. prior generation, supplementing — not replacing — Nvidia GPUs.