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April 8, 2026, 12:05 PM

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Anthropic:
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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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.
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 …
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.
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Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.

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