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Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity — Claude subscriptions will no longer cover third-party access from tools like OpenClaw starting Saturday, April 4th.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Copilot sales hit “big audacious goals” by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January — Microsoft Corp., responding to Wall Street feedback, has pivoted its AI sales strategy to focus on selling Copilot rather …
More: The Register, Android Authority, TechRadar, Cautious Optimism, The Information, and CNBC. LinkedIn: Brody Ford
| Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: |
Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more — Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders.| The Economic Times: |
Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates — Delve's removal from Y Combinator's directory follows allegations that compliance certifications for hundreds of Delve's clients were fabricated.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims — A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. Benjamin Brundage had a few tricks to help solve the mystery.| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos — The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can't connect to the internet.
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| Anthony Halpin / Bloomberg: |
Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram — Russia's attempts to restrict the use of virtual private networks amid a clampdown on the Telegram messaging platform triggered …
More: Reuters, @durov on Telegram, The Kyiv Independent, and Telecompaper
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans — The company says the next big leap in robotics won't come from fancier humanoid hardware. It will come from applying AI scaling principles …
More: Generalist on YouTube, Generalist AI, and The Robot Report
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| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI — Mark Zuckerberg and Garry Tan join the trend of C-level folks jumping back into coding with AI. Also: a bad week for Claude Code and GitHub, and more
More: National Today, TWiT.tv, and Business Insider
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages — Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech Robotics Corp. is seeking a chief scientist, offering an annual pay of as much as 124 million yuan … | Wired: |
Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident — Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor.
More: The Economic Times, Business Insider, The Verge, and Moneycontrol
X: @mrgoldbro, @___4o____, @zeffmax, @adnanthekhan, and @intcyberdigest
| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan — The artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is launching a new corporate political action committee, becoming the latest technology firm … | Politico: |
The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play — The resistance on Capitol Hill raises fresh doubts about whether Congress can pass any national laws for the rapidly advancing technology as states move ahead on their own.
More: The Hill
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks — OpenAI's chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons …
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