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| Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: |
Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun was fired from a car early on April 12; police arrest two suspects — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days …
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| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom — Well known hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers — More bad news for Rockstar Games.
More: BBC, Help Net Security, The Register, Moneycontrol, The CyberSec Guru, TheGamer, Cyber Daily, Tech Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Video Games Chronicle, Mirror, The Indian Express, TechRadar, The Cyber Express, Gameranx, The Movie Blog, Digital Trends, GamingBolt, Forbes, The Verge, XDA Developers, Hackread, TechSpot, Neowin, VideoCardz.com, and IGN
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors — World Liberty Financial Inc., a Trump family crypto venture, is facing an investor revolt that includes billionaire backer Justin Sun … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to staff — Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead …
More: Engadget, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Yahoo Finance, Livemint, crypto.news, Digit, and Notebookcheck
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand — AI companies are rationing offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption
More: Implicator.ai and Fast Company
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses — Also: The latest on the foldable iPhone. — Apple is working on several frame styles and a unique camera design for its first smart glasses.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI — Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
More: ChinaTalk, Gizmodo, NonZero Newsletter, Cal Newport, The Register, GovTech, and Tomasz Tunguz
X: @atelicinvest, @spendergrsec, @tmaiaroto, @emollick, @davidsacks, @ramez, @adxtyahq, @andrewcurran_, @katexbt, @littmath, @ananayarora, @robertwiblin, @maskedtorah, @johncrickett, @eliebakouch, @maxcroser, @kimzetter, and @jeffreyleefunk. LinkedIn: Todd Humphreys
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @timmarchman, @mims, and @shashj
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
More: Business Today, Security Boulevard, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, France 24, and Reuters. Forums: r/technology
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post — A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.
Bluesky: @seanokane and @rmac
| Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: |
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word. — It follows February's release of Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint.
More: TechRadar, Claude, Implicator.ai, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, The Next Web, Moneycontrol, and Issuewire
X: @claudeai, @stocksavvyshay, @aakashgupta, @psomkar1, @thefineprintesq, @kimmonismus, @jack_raines, @cryptopunk7213, @_the_prophet__, @autismcapital, @mayhem4markets, @scobleizer, @rohanpaul_ai, @himanshustwts, @minchoi, @trace_cohen, @bubbleboi, @zackbshapiro, @jumperz, @deredleritt3r, @boringbiz_, @signulll, @roundtablespace, @stevesi, @yuchenj_uw, @oliverhenry, @hesamation, and @trungtphan. Bluesky: @businessinsider.com. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive — As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive's vast collection of web pages.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal — OpenAI's newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company's alliance … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review — People who don't do an age check can only access family-friendly games. … Roblox is about to make a big change …
More: Reuters, Engadget, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Roblox, Variety, CBS News, and Telecompaper
| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities — The e-commerce giant's new-car buying program expands to Jeep, Chevrolet and other brands — Now you can buy a brand-new Corvette on Amazon.com .
More: CBT News
| Andy Kemp / Gallup: |
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive — Employees report productivity gains with AI but not fundamental shifts in how work gets done. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement …
More: Semafor, Associated Press, CTech, and Axios
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