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From Techmeme: Sources: Meta drew about $96B of orders from investors for a $25B bond sale it launched on Thursday; Meta sold $30B of corporate bonds in October 2025 (Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Sources: KKR has secured $10B+ to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company led by ex-AWS CEO Adam Selipsky that will develop and operate AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

From Techmeme: Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

From Techmeme: Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (New York Times)

From Techmeme: The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation (AI Security Institute)

From Techmeme: X says it has begun a "phased rollout" of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern "retrieval and ranking systems" powered by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

From Techmeme: Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

From memeorandum: April 2026 National Poll: Democrats Hold 10-Point Midterm Advantage over Republicans (Camille Mumford/Emerson Polling)

From memeorandum: What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding (Pratik Pawar/Vox)

From memeorandum: Former Fauci Adviser Indicted on Covid-Related Charges (Benjamin Mueller/New York Times)

From memeorandum: ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

From memeorandum: Putin scales back Red Square military parade amid Ukraine war struggles (Veronika Melkozerova/Politico)

From memeorandum: 'Thoughts and prayers': The minefield that awaits Kevin Warsh at the Fed (Victoria Guida/Politico)

From memeorandum: 2 high-profile Texas Democrats try to keep their careers alive after GOP gerrymander (Samuel Benson/Politico)

From memeorandum: In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era (Mark Landler/New York Times)

From memeorandum: Judge Asks Justice Department: Will You Oppose Trump? (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)