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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.
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X: @videotech, @gameroll_, and @austinc3301
| 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 … | 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: The Verge, Quartz, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, crypto.news, Livemint, Digit, and Notebookcheck
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| 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
X: @morqon, @firstadopter, @benitoz, and @firstadopter. Bluesky: @edzitron.com. Forums: r/technology
| 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 …
More: Reuters
| Stanford HAI: |
Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and 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.
More: SiliconANGLE, MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg Law, IEEE Spectrum, and Fox News
X: @siepr, @seoscottsdale, and @stanfordhai
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure — Anthony Whelan, a former adviser on tech, vows to pursue cases irrespective of ‘noise’ around them
More: Bloomberg, RTÉ, The Irish Times, and Politico
| 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, and Moneycontrol
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
| 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: Gizmodo, ChinaTalk, Business Today, Benzinga, Cal Newport, NonZero Newsletter, The Register, TechCrunch, GovTech, and Financial Times
X: @aisecurityinst, @atelicinvest, @spendergrsec, @rnr_0, @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
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 — As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features … | 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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