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Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities — Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
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Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net and @ianbetteridge@social …
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| Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: |
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security — Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon.
More: Newser and MediaPost
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Bluesky: @renrut-mas and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/ControlProblem, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser — Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/programare, r/openbsd, r/accelerate, and Lobsters
| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and publicly detailed its exploit without being prompted — - Anthropic said its next-generation AI model is too powerful for the public. — That's why Claude Mythos won't be publicly released, Anthropic said.
More: Axios, The Hacker News, Infosecurity, Ars Technica, and The Indian Express
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
More: Anthropic, CNBC, and Business Today
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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Forums: r/Anthropic and r/Slovakia
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
More: Axios and Moneycontrol
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| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …
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| Financial Times: |
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1/barrel of oil for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz — Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; a $60M April 7 contract remains under dispute — Bets on a ceasefire between the US and Iran have sent more than $170 million coursing through Polymarket, making …
More: CryptoPotato and Bitcoin News
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems — Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing — In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
More: The Economic Times and AI Forensics
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Forums: r/anime_titties, r/pwnhub, r/TrueReddit, and Beehaw
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
FBI: US victims lost nearly $21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches — U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, available under an MIT license — Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
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LinkedIn: Asif Razzaq, Sebastian Ma, and Z.ai
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets, after the GENIUS Act — Quick Take — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.
More: The White House, FDIC, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, CryptoNinjas, The Crypto Basic, Cryip, CoinGape, crypto.news, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Decrypt, and CoinDesk
X: @chadsteingraber and @fdicgov
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing — Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips …
More: South China Morning Post, Capital Brief, Barron's Online, Quartz, Blockonomi, Benzinga, and crypto.news
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring — Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching … | Nikkei Asia: |
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation — PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to $450M+ in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of its Computer agent and its shift to usage-based pricing — San Francisco-based start-up surges from push into more complex and potentially more lucrative AI services
More: Proactive, PYMNTS.com, and The Economic Times
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The FBI, the NSA, and other US agencies warn that Iran-linked hackers targeted industrial control devices used in critical US water and energy infrastructure — As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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Forums: r/PrepperIntel and r/pwnhub
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO — Alibaba Group senior executive Jingren Zhou, who is in charge of AI model development, will stop serving as Alibaba Cloud's chief …
More: South China Morning Post
| Jude Joffe-Block / NPR: |
Letter: ICE officials confirm the agency is using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers — Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts … | Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” — Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
X: @jyoti_mann1, @gergelyorosz, and @hussain_joe
| Melia Russell / Business Insider: |
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire — Follow Melia Russell … - Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.
More: AlleyWatch, FinSMEs, Bloomberg Law, LAW.com, Business Wire, and citybiz
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile US executive to exit — TikTok advertising leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving the short-form video company, joining a wave of American executives stepping down over the past year.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY — On Patreon, podcasts have become the largest content category in terms of revenue and they've continued their upward trajectory, says chief operating officer Paige Fitzgerald.Sponsor Posts
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