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April 16, 2026, 3:05 PM
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Anthropic:
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level  —  Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available.  —  Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is “less broadly capable” than Claude Mythos Preview and that its “cyber capabilities are not as advanced as those of Mythos Preview”  —  Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7 …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses “an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens”
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Codex Desktop expands from coding into full productivity workflows.  — Automation can generate images, charts, and workflow outputs.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting on April 19  —  Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more. Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profit, beating estimates and hitting …
Wall Street Journal:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes  —  All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt  —  Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content …
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse  —  The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers  —  Your online co-worker isn't who you think. … Two individuals from New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud …
Bloomberg:
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite policies prohibiting them, that have generated $122M+ in revenue  —  Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes  —  With the international expansion underway, Gemini is now bringing together Personal Intelligence, Google Photos, and Nano Banana 2.
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities”  —  Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for frontier models to help deploy and test agents on long-horizon tasks  —  Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000  —  After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …
Caroline O'Donovan / The San Francisco Standard:
OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences”  —  OpenAI's Chris Lehane thinks the discussion around AI has gotten out of hand.
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Q&A with a16z partner Martin Casado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more  —  The technologist and investor argues recent progress in AI is an industrial revolution-scale event but warns the ability …
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, raised a $150M Series C led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation  —  Matan Grinberg's Factory, which offers autonomous coding tools, is competing with the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI started leasing its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200+ London staff  —  Anthropic said Thursday it's expanding its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival OpenAI unveiled plans …
Emily Zemler / The Wrap:
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M  —  “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design  —  Australia's highest-profile tech unicorn is undertaking a risky transformation as it seeks to prove its relevance in the age of generative AI.
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more  —  “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it”

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Wall Street Journal:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, who said this week she “practiced international transaction law”, hasn't passed the bar exam in the US

Alix Coutures / The Information:
OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
UK Culture Minister Lisa Nandy says she is “minded to intervene” in Sky's proposed $2B takeover of ITV, citing concerns about maintaining media plurality

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Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
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Erin Woo / The Information:
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Timmy Shen / The Block:
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The Information:
Sources: Apple plans to send <200 developers from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri
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