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April 13, 2026, 11:30 PM
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Hayden Field / The Verge:
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google”, which overstates its “run rate by roughly $8B”  —  OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …
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 …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts  —  Roblox is introducing new account types designed to give kids and younger teens age-appropriate access to chat and games, the company announced on Monday.
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 …
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson  —  The man who allegedly threw an incendiary device at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is facing attempted murder and attempted arson charges, authorities said Monday.
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.
Jeff Tomich / Politico:
Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center  —  The rout of half the Festus City Council was fueled by a surge in voter turnout and widespread frustration with the data center approval process.
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.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs  —  Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox staff memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation”  —  Microsoft is getting ready to address Game Pass pricing concerns.
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times:
AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March  —  CodeWall says it gained access to consultant's Pyxis platform using a username and password from public web code
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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:
A federal judge rules that two statutes Marco Rubio used to try to deport legal immigrants for their speech violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutional

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
California lawmakers unveil a bill that changes state film and TV production tax credits to soften the impact of a new tax credit cap set on corporations

Ryan Glasspiegel / Front Office Sports:
Sources: Roxanna Scott, hired by ESPN in December 2025 to serve as the top editor across TV and digital, is out after a reorganization of ESPN's news division

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Michael Kan / PCMag:
Amazon unveils the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds “simultaneously” for in-flight Wi-Fi
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
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
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Rockstar says “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demands a ransom

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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 has been used to blacklist investors
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
Wall Street Journal:
Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for one hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by rising agentic AI demand
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