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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 …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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.
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| 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, Business Today, Benzinga, Broadcom Inc., Bloomberg, Reuters, Neowin, 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
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeover of Globalstar Inc. is poised to benefit one of the company's biggest rivals in hardware devices: Apple Inc.| About Amazon: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US 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.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that it may remove Grok 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.| 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: US Department of Justice, Mintlify, Salesforce Ventures, and The Verge
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| 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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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday — Mass layoffs land tomorrow, the Perplexity deal is dead, and Specs are launching soon. Also: OpenAI has a cyber model too … | Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, saying 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: MarkTechPost and The Robot Report
| 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: Benzinga, Reuters, CNBC, The Daily Upside, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Ventureburn, Inc.com, and Gizmodo
| 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.| 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.| 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 … | John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, the research company making audio accessible across languages and voices.| 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.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom — U.S.-based growth and late-stage venture funds raised a record $23.6 billion this year so far, according to PitchBook| 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 … | 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 …
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record high memory prices increase pressure on smartphone OEMs to reduce shipments and increase prices that dampen demand.
| 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.| 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
| 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.| 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, Slate, Implicator.ai, Inc.com, and TechRadar
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, vs. €8.5B est., and €2.8B net profit, vs. €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B-€40B from €34B-€39B — ASML raised its sales forecast for 2026 after it beat first-quarter revenue and profit expectations …
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