Saturday, April 25, 2026

Tech

Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic

Google has agreed to invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude models, making it one of the largest venture investments in history. The deal follows Amazon's own major Anthropic investment earlier this week, signaling a full-scale war among tech giants to lock in access to frontier AI. Between the two commitments, Anthropic has now attracted tens of billions in fresh capital in a matter of days.

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World

US and Iran edge toward talks via Pakistan

Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are flying to Pakistan as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives in Islamabad, raising cautious hopes for direct nuclear diplomacy. Tehran has not formally committed to a face-to-face meeting, but the simultaneous presence of both sides in the same capital is the closest the two countries have come to talks in months. The back-channel is unfolding against a backdrop of Israeli strikes still killing Palestinians in Gaza and continued Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

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Politics

US appeals court strikes down Trump asylum ban

A federal appeals court ruled that Trump's executive order suspending asylum at the US-Mexico border is illegal, finding that immigration law grants people the right to apply for asylum regardless of a presidential invasion declaration. The ruling is a significant judicial check on one of the administration's most aggressive immigration tools, though it remains unclear when asylum processing will actually resume. The Trump administration is expected to appeal.

Tech

DeepSeek releases V4 with 384K context window

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released a preview of its flagship V4 model, featuring a dramatically expanded context window and a new architecture that handles large volumes of text far more efficiently than its predecessor. Like DeepSeek's earlier models, V4 is open source, keeping the pressure on closed Western competitors and again demonstrating that cutting-edge AI is no longer a US monopoly. The model is already available on Hugging Face with a maximum output of 384,000 tokens.

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Health

Europe approves Moderna combo flu-COVID mRNA vaccine

European regulators have become the first in the world to authorize Moderna's combination mRNA vaccine targeting both influenza and COVID-19, offering patients a single shot for both diseases. The US is not in the running for first approval: Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year amid the RFK Jr.-led pressure campaign against vaccines inside the Trump administration. The approval marks a concrete divergence in public health policy between the EU and the US.