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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 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 …
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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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| 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 … | 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| 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.
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| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
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| 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.
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| Natsuki Yamamoto / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030 — TOKYO — SoftBank has established a company to develop artificial intelligence in Japan, with NEC and Honda Motor among eight peers …
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| 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: Livemint, Digit, and Notebookcheck
| New York Times: |
A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems — China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems.
More: The Kyiv Independent and Opinio Juris
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| Ellen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 — Follow Ellen Thomas … - Maine is set to pass a bill pausing new data centers until late 2027.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub — OpenAI has announced it's opening its first permanent London office with a capacity of over 500 team members …
More: Tech.eu, RTÉ, The Times, and Tech in Asia
| 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 … | Elizabeth Bratton / Financial Times: |
Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices — Firms may raise prices for fixed-fee contracts if clients keep sending flurries of emails and letters| 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.Sponsor Posts
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