|
April 15, 2026, 2:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| 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, Business Today, New York Times, The Information, Livemint, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Digit, Axios, DNYUZ, PYMNTS.com, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Financial Times, Gizmodo, iClarified, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, CNET, Cyber Security News, XDA Developers, and Constellation Research
X: @openai, @miles_brundage, @nrehiew_, @openai, @andrewcurran_, @morqon, @mattshumer_, and @chatgpt21. 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, Bloomberg, DigiTimes, CNBC, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Anadolu Ajansı …, and Barron's Online
| 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 Deep View, Thurrott, The New Stack, and The Register
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: Claude, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, 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, Android Authority, PCMag, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, and PCWorld
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.”| About Amazon: |
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: Computerworld, Seattle Business Journal, New York Times, Engadget, GeekWire, MarketWatch, Business Standard, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Wall Street Journal, The Register, The Verge, CNBC, Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg, Benzinga, 425 Business, Yahoo Finance, Ars Technica, The Motley Fool, Barron's Online, MobileSyrup, Via Satellite, CNET, The Mac Observer, Pulse 2.0, Forbes, The American Bazaar, Quartz, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, Thurrott, WKYC-TV, Telecompetitor, iDrop News, Reuters, HotHardware, Fierce Network, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, The Next Web, The Information, Axios, 9to5Mac, and Bloomberg
X: @panos_panay, @edludlow, @defiantclient2, @joannastern, @mweinbach, @rihardjarc, @trengriffin, @panos_panay, @aaronburnett, @matthewstoller, @caro_milanesi, @peter_adderton, @apostructura, @kingtutcap, @tmfassociates, @spacekoala, @panos_panay, @jackkuhr, @edludlow, @tmfassociates, @dpoddolphinpro, @amazonleo, and @amazonleo
LinkedIn: Jonathan Sauder, Peter Krawiec, Simon Buckingham, Anshel Sag, Emil Protalinski, and Globalstar
Bluesky: @retornam, @mgsiegler.com, and @marypcbuk
Forums: Hacker News, r/MDASpaceInvestors, r/Starlink, r/BlueOrigin, and MacRumors Forums
| 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, Tom's Guide, The Verge, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, Chrome Unboxed, TestingCatalog, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, Droid Life, TechCrunch, CNET, PCWorld, Android Central, 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 …
More: MakeUseOf. X: @dwlz, @altcap, @ericvishria, @cto_junior, @cdpetty, @tunguz, @anissagardizy8, @clementdelangue, @chamath, and @virtualmilin
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: @8teapi, @andrewcurran_, @steph_palazzolo, @boringmarketer, @d4m1n, @stevehou, @stocksavvyshay, and @apples_jimmy
Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| 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
| 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.| 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
X: @bcherny, @trq212, @petergyang, @hesamation, @om_patel5, @paul_cal, @zoink, @marcospereeira, @trq212, @tengyanai, @0xdevshah, @mweinbach, @hesamation, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @erikvoorhees, @grummz, @daniellefong, @benbajarin, and @patrickmoorhead. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| 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: @aakashgupta, @hahnbeelee, @matsiiako, @skeptrune, @kevinzhang, @handotdev, @handotdev, @handotdev, @handotdev, @stuffyokodraws, and @jenniferhli. LinkedIn: Salesforce Ventures
| 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, Credo, TheStreet, Motley Fool, SiliconANGLE, The Times of Israel, and Barron's Online
| Financial Times: |
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make up lost ground with equity investments and vehicle order commitments — Uber has committed more than $10bn …
More: Reuters, The Daily Upside, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Ventureburn, Inc.com, and Gizmodo
| 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.| Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 — For robots to be truly helpful in our daily lives and industries, they must do more than follow instructions, they must reason about the physical world.
More: The Robot Report
| Financial Times: |
Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign groups deploy millions amid growing public support for tighter regulation| 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, Washington Post, NOTUS, Reuters, and The Portland Press Herald
X: @ierenergy, @kross_roads, and @fluentinfinance
| 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: Implicator.ai and Fortune
LinkedIn: Konstantin Kakaes. Bluesky: @quantamagazine. Forums: Hacker News, r/math, and r/LLMPhysics
| 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: Web3 is Going Just Great, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, BleepingComputer, TheStreet, AppleInsider, crypto.news, San Francisco Chronicle, iPhone in Canada, MacRumors, The Block, and Decrypt
X: @glove, @zachxbt, @deeze, @glove, @zachxbt, @ochiakatsuki, @cointelegraph, @glove, and @cointelegraph. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and MacRumors Forums
| 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, The Daily Upside, American Banker, PYMNTS.com, Axios, Bloomberg, and Politico
Sponsor Posts
ElevenLabs:
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
Niantic Spatial:
World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Zoho:
Common mistakes to avoid when implementing an intranet — Implementing an intranet can improve communication and make information easier to access across your organization. But without the right approach …
Common mistakes to avoid when implementing an intranet — Implementing an intranet can improve communication and make information easier to access across your organization. But without the right approach …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Developer marketing when everyone is a developer
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
The Social Radars:
Justin Kan, Cofounder, Twitch
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Cheeky Pint:
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Invest Like the Best:
Scott Nolan - SpaceX, Founders Fund, and Rebuilding American Uranium Enrichment
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ryan Roslansky: Turning AI Anxiety into Skills for the Future of Work
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:10 AM ET, April 15, 2026.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Bloomberg: |
More: Microsoft, spiked, and TheEnergyMag
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Earlier Picks
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
More: Gizmodo. X: @zeffmax, @cesarfernand3z, @shakeelhashim, @miles_brundage, @zeffmax, @miles_brundage, and @gabriel_weil. Bluesky: @katie-drummond
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/technology
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Information, Investor's Business Daily, The Economic Times, Reuters, and Anthropic
LinkedIn: Octavian Florescu and Vas Narasimhan
| Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: |
More: Android Police, Android Authority, Phandroid, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, Neowin, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, SamMobile, and SammyGuru. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
More: Deutsche Börse Group, Decrypt, Reuters, The Information, PaymentsJournal, Ventureburn, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, DL News, ZyCrypto, Semafor, and crypto.news
| New York Times: |