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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program — OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
More: OpenAI, New York Times, Livemint, The Information, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, XDA Developers, Digit, Cyber Security News, CNET, 9to5Mac, Axios, DNYUZ, Implicator.ai, Financial Times, DataBreachToday.com, Gizmodo, iClarified, SiliconANGLE, and Constellation Research
X: @openai, @miles_brundage, @nrehiew_, @mattshumer_, @openai, @andrewcurran_, @chatgpt21, and @morqon. Bluesky: @seldo.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| CNBC: |
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board — Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design …
More: Meta Newsroom, Broadcom Inc., Reuters, DigiTimes, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, CNBC, Reuters, and Anadolu Ajansı …
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Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon …
More: Engadget, Seattle Business Journal, MarketWatch, Business Standard, MacRumors, The Register, The Verge, CNBC, Australian Financial Review, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, The American Bazaar, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Quartz, Forbes, Pulse 2.0, The Mac Observer, 425 Business, MobileSyrup, Via Satellite, Android Authority, CNET, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, Thurrott, WKYC-TV, Telecompetitor, iDrop News, Reuters, HotHardware, GeekWire, Fierce Network, PYMNTS.com, The Next Web, The Information, Axios, 9to5Mac, and Bloomberg
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LinkedIn: Jonathan Sauder, Simon Buckingham, Anshel Sag, Peter Krawiec, Emil Protalinski, and Globalstar
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @marypcbuk
Forums: r/MDASpaceInvestors, r/Starlink, r/BlueOrigin, and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
More: MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, PCMag, The Motley Fool, Bitcoin Insider, Barron's Online, Watcher Guru, Proactive, Los Angeles Times, The Apple Post, Newser, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, DatacenterDynamics, and Financial Times
LinkedIn: Dave McCarthy. Bluesky: @retornam. Forums: r/technology, r/Economics, r/news, and r/wallstreetbets
| Claude: |
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
More: The New Stack, The Register, The Deep View, and Thurrott
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Claude, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, and The New Stack
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 — Make it make sense. Make it make sense. … The United States' foreign router ban didn't make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.
More: Netgear, Gizmodo, PCMag, PCWorld, CNET, and Engadget
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/hardware
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more — After testing got underway in September, the “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets — The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.
More: The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Search Engine Journal, Chrome Unboxed, Android Central, TestingCatalog, MobileSyrup, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada, Ars Technica, Android Police, Android Authority, ZDNET, 9to5Google, The Deep View, The New Stack, Engadget, Thurrott, and The Decoder
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok may be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.| Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok “capture over 90 percent of social media advertising revenues,” an Omdia analyst tells the StreamTV Europe gathering in Lisbon.| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one — Large language models' ever-accelerating rate of improvement raises two particularly important questions for alignment research.| Laura Bratton / The Information: |
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026 …
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @selectric.space
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week — Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations …
X: @d4m1n, @stevehou, @8teapi, @andrewcurran_, @stocksavvyshay, @steph_palazzolo, @apples_jimmy, and @boringmarketer
Forums: r/singularity and r/ClaudeAI
| The Information: |
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic's Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes — Microsoft has ended production on the Surface Hub 3, with no plans to make more in the future, putting an end to its collaborative displays line.| Reuters: |
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on Tuesday launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed …
More: MediaPost, Investing.com, Inc, MediaPost, MobiHealthNews, and Amazon Web Services
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …
More: PC Gamer, The Register, Implicator.ai, Slate, Inc.com, and TechRadar
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| CTech: |
US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B — The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.
More: MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, Credo, TheStreet, SiliconANGLE, The Times of Israel, and Barron's Online
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February — Follow Ben Bergman … - Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion.| Bloomberg: |
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats — The US Treasury Department's technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC's Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting …
More: Semafor, American Banker, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Politico
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation — It's just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify's AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.
More: Mintlify and Salesforce Ventures
X: @skeptrune, @kevinzhang, @handotdev, @aakashgupta, @handotdev, @hahnbeelee, @handotdev, @handotdev, @matsiiako, @stuffyokodraws, and @jenniferhli. LinkedIn: Salesforce Ventures
| Politico: |
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban — The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation — tasked with evaluating U.S. and foreign AI models … | Byard Duncan / Bloomberg: |
A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations — BusPatrol says its technology helps curb dangerous driving at no cost to cities. Public records from across the US often tell a different story.| Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: |
How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI's impact.
More: Fortune and Implicator.ai
LinkedIn: Konstantin Kakaes. Bluesky: @quantamagazine. Forums: Hacker News, r/math, and r/LLMPhysics
| Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: |
Maine's legislature passed a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure — The bill, which blocks centers that draw over 20 megawatts of power until late 2027, heads to Democratic Gov. Janet Mills
More: Gizmodo, Financial Times, RTÉ, Washington Examiner, Reuters, Washington Post, NOTUS, and The Portland Press Herald
X: @fluentinfinance, @ierenergy, and @kross_roads
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
A malicious Ledger Live clone on Apple's App Store seems to have drained $9.5M+ from 50+ victims on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and XRP from April 7 to 13 — A malicious Ledger Live clone slipped onto Apple's App Store, draining millions from dozens of victims across multiple blockchains in a week-long phishing campaign.
More: 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, TheStreet, San Francisco Chronicle, The Block, crypto.news, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, and Decrypt
X: @glove, @zachxbt, @glove, @zachxbt, @ochiakatsuki, @cointelegraph, @deeze, @glove, and @cointelegraph. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15 — Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
More: Ars Technica, Google for Developers, CNET, Tech Times, Android Central, Mashable, and Android Authority
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @polemicdigital.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M — Series B brings total funding to $68 million as brands rethink AI visibility — If you want to shape media strategy—not just optimize it—upgrade your expertise.
More: FinSMEs, Bluefish AI, and Pulse 2.0
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