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April 13, 2026, 8:20 AM

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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.
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 appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days …
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 …
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.
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: Fast Company.  X: @firstadopter, @firstadopter, and @benitoz.  Bluesky: @edzitron.com.  Forums: r/technology
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.
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.
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
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed  —  Tucked into an unassuming office building in San Francisco, one startup is betting on an unconventional way of alleviating the AI energy crisis: living human cells.

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