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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 … | 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.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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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| 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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| 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.| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
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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: |
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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.| 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.
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