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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 …
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| 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 …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model — The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available …
More: International Business Times, Crypto Briefing, Forbes, and Futurism
| 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 …
More: TSMC, ZeroHedge News, Reuters, Proactive, PC Gamer, Forbes Middle East, crypto.news, eeNews Europe, MarketWatch, Culpium, and Nikkei Asia
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| 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 — Taiwan company expects revenue to grow by more than 30% and doesn't see material disruptions to supply chain| 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.
More: Engadget, MobileSyrup, SammyGuru, Digit, Neowin, Pocket-lint, PCMag, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, Digital Trends, Thurrott, The Shortcut, The Hans India, and T3
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| 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 …
More: Apple, CNET, 9to5Mac, GSMArena.com, Neowin, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada, AppleInsider, iDrop News, iClarified, Moneycontrol, and The Economic Times
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| 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.| 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.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom — DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a voice-to-voice translation suite today that covers use cases … | 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
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| 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 … | Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others — California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue — Slash Financial Inc., a financial services startup run by two 24-year-old founders, has landed a $1.4 billion valuation …
More: TechCrunch, Slash, and The Next Web
| 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 … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI — Google said Thursday it blocked a record 8.3 billion ads globally in 2025 — up from 5.1 billion the year before.| Bloomberg: |
Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B — An early investment in SpaceX has positioned Alphabet Inc. for a 12-figure windfall, a new filing shows, underscoring the vast wealth likely …
More: Benzinga and San Francisco Examiner
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google is negotiating a US DOD deal that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing Google's previous stance — Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google's Gemini AI models … | Anna Tong / Forbes: |
AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data.
X: @_iainmartin
| 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 …
More: OpenAI, Digit, AI News, Help Net Security, The New Stack, and The Decoder
X: @vincent_koc, @cloudflaredev, @openaidevs, @openaidevs, @whoiskatrin, @openaidevs, @_lopopolo, @vercel_dev, @stevenheidel, @openaidevs, and @modal. Bluesky: @sungkim
| 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| 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 … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced a new series of AI models built to help life sciences researchers work faster.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 — Claire Lomas, a British paraplegic known for overcoming medical trauma to participate in the London Marathon …
More: MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Wired, Benzinga, The Economic Times, Implicator.ai, and Capital Brief
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, and Beyond Search
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together — In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.Sponsor Posts
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