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April 13, 2026, 4:00 PM

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Hayden Field / The Verge:
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients using 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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; source: Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test his AI character to offer feedback to staff  —  Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
AI Security Institute:
Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025  —  The AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted evaluations of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview (announced on 7th April) to assess its cybersecurity capabilities.
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 …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that has been used to blacklist investors  —  World Liberty Financial Inc., a Trump family crypto venture, is facing an investor revolt that includes billionaire backer Justin Sun …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia “has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape”  —  Shares of Dell Technologies Inc. and HP Inc. jumped after a report from website SemiAccurate that Nvidia Corp. was seeking …
Stanford HAI:
2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more  —  AI's influence on society has never been more pronounced.  —  At Stanford HAI, we believe AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of the 21st century.
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 …
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.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA  —  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.

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