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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 …
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 …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available  —  Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems.  — Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6  —  Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model …
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about 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.
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board  —  Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude 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 …
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  —  Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure  —  As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers  —  Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under 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.
Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:
Letter: ICE officials confirm they are 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 …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays  —  Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
Lance Whitney / ZDNET:
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome.  — With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar.
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Asus Zenbook A16 review: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is speedy and 48GB of RAM is great for $1,599, but the chassis feels cheap and the battery life lags rivals  —  It's not all about what's on the inside. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing  —  San Francisco-based start-up surges from push into more complex and potentially more lucrative AI services
Reuters:
TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users  —  TikTok plans to invest 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) to build a second data centre in Finland in less than a year …
Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg:
Sources: Bain's data center unit cuts ties with Megaspeed, which is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade Nvidia AI chip export curbs  —  Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres has removed from its Malaysian computing hub a Southeast Asian company the US suspects of smuggling Nvidia Corp. chips.

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April Roach / CNBC:
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square proposes to acquire Amsterdam-listed Universal Music Group for €56B in cash and stock, form a merged company, and list on the NYSE

Sara Fischer / Axios:
AP warns Lee Enterprises that Lee's attempt to end its deal with AP early, on April 26 instead of December 31, could lead to breach of contract consequences

New York Times:
Journalist Shelly Kittleson, abducted in Iraq by an Iranian-aligned militia, has been freed after a week in captivity, per the militia and two Iraqi officials

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John Collison / Cheeky Pint:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google is updating Gemini to add a UI that triggers support hotline referrals and a “help is available” module when chats indicate potential crises like suicide
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where its 85K+ employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status
Filippo Valsorda:
A cryptography engineer calls for an urgent rollout of quantum-resistant cryptography, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning
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