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Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/meta-commi

Meta commits to one gigawatt of custom chips with Broadcom as Hock Tan agrees to leave board
Meta commits to deploying 1 GW of custom in-house MTIA chips co-designed with Broadcom in sweeping new multiyear deal announced Tuesday

"At a top-level meeting of her 26 department chiefs in March, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quietly approved a plan to stop EU funds from going to clean technology projects containing Chinese inverters."
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Exclusive | EU to cut funding for Chinese inverters amid change of tack towards Beijing
Without fanfare, Brussels will stop funding for projects that use the Chinese-made devices as part of a ‘do more, say less’ strategy.

🆔 DC4EU final report proposes pluralistic trust model to realise EUDI Wallet vision
A key message in the report: no single trust model fits Europe’s diversity. Instead, DC4EU proposes a pluralistic approach, weaving together three complementary trust infrastructures.
⏳ With less than a year left to achieve Europe’s 2026 digital identity mandate, the report calls for coordinated action to move from feasibility to real-world deployment at European scale.
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No official version of the proposal has been made available, but a summary released by Iran's Supreme National Security Council includes demands for the following:
The Strait of Hormuz to be reopened "under the co-ordination of the armed forces of Iran".

The war against "all components" of Iran's so-called Axis of Resistance to end.

US forces to withdraw from "all bases and points of deployment within the region".

What is in Iran's 10-point peace plan?
Iranian proposal appears to include demands for reparations for war damages

Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/3-billion-ai…

The $3 Billion AI Medicare Broker Backed By Two Vice Presidents
Meta Platforms’ Wednesday release of Spark, the first model in its broader Muse model family, doesn’t blow other frontier models out of the water, according to developers and researchers I talked to. But at least puts the company back in the AI conversation.The model is already powering the Meta ...

The Darth #Trump administration clearly assumes that NATO and thus the EU will assist the US in the war against Iran.
But that would not be covered by the mutual defense pact—after all, the war started by Trump is a violation of international law, and the thousands of deaths in Iran are a war crime.
Furthermore, this would not change the US's support for NATO in any way. There will be non…

Europe Didn’t Want War With Iran. But So Far, It Can’t Stay Out of It.
From London to Rome and beyond, leaders are facing diplomatic headwinds and criticism at home as they take part in a conflict they did not seek.

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"Three ICE agents arrived. They first encountered Ms. Rickling and her husband in the lobby. They told us that they didn’t have a choice, they said they had to take Annie,” recalled Ms. Rickling. She said they apologized.
“I begged them not to take her,” Ms. Rickling said. “They said the higher-ups made them do it.”"
**ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy** - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.XKkT.blanaePOShOc&smid=url-share

A spate of big developments emerged yesterday regarding Anthropic, its status as a "supply chain threat," and what that means for organizations that have deployed the company's tech as well as what it means for the company.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a précis on these critical developments and other top infosec news you should know, including
--FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials,
--TX governor warns health ag…

Pentagon-Anthropic standoff escalates, putting contracts and AI deployments at risk
FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials, TX governor warns health agencies and universities of Chinese-manufactured devices, A big bank in S. Africa was hit by a ransomware attack, Hackers are selling Windows exploit for $220k, much more

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Just 90 minutes before Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline to
“wipe out a whole civilization”
with massive strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges,
he came up with a two-week extension for diplomacy to continue.

“Subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,”
Trump said on social media,
“I agre…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Amid threats to bomb civilian infrastructure, the president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that formed a “workable basis” for continued negotiations.

The United States and Iran reached an 11th-hour ceasefire deal on Tuesday night,
pausing for two weeks the threat of military strikes that Trump had warned would wipe out a “whole civilization” unless Tehran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Accepting ceasefire, Trump agreed to negotiate on Iran’s terms
-- He did so stating that diplomacy would revolve around a 10-point proposal from Tehran,
a framework he described as a
“workable basis on which to negotiat…

Trump pulls back threats of destroying 'whole civilization,' gives Iran two more weeks
President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die” on Tuesday night if Iran does not meet his deadline to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 5 p.m.