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April 8, 2026, 9:05 PM
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Financial Times:
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products  —  Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license  —  Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5%  —  Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago …
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March  —  A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
Antonis Pothitos / Reuters:
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action  —  Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
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 …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta  —  Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read  —  Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships across 47K podcasters and revenue generated by podcasters on its platform grew 33% YoY to $629M in 2025  —  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.
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.
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.
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's 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.
Isaac Yee / CNN:
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin  —  A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data - including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics …
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 …
Financial Times:
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz  —  Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons  —  Iran will demand that shipping …
Jacob Trefethen / OpenAI Foundation:
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research  —  Alzheimer's disease is one of the hardest unsolved problems in medicine, and one of the most devastating.

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From Mediagazer

Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre calls Prince Harry's phone hacking case a “conspiracy” to destroy the Mail and the verdict is a “vindication” of its journalism

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A US district court judge dismisses Trump Media and Technology Group's $3.8B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against WaPo; TMTG is considering an appeal

More News

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting
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

Earlier Picks

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
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: Perplexity's annualized revenue hit $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of its Computer agent and its shift to usage-based pricing
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
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic
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