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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 …
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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: |
| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits — Co-founder won't stand for re-election to the board, Netflix says in first earnings report since pulling out of Warner Discovery bid
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours — Netflix Inc. gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations, sending the shares down in extended trading.| 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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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/OpenAI
| 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.
More: OpenAI, MarkTechPost, Ars Technica, The Deep View, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Neowin, and Endpoints News
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile — Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience.
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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: Financial Times, Benzinga, Axios, Gizmodo, iTnews, Futurism, Crypto Briefing, International Business Times, and ZeroHedge News
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| The Information: |
Sources: Cerebras plans to make its IPO public as soon as Friday, aiming to raise $3B+ at a $35B+ valuation, a 60% premium to its $22B February valuation — Chip startup Cerebras is planning to make its IPO paperwork public as soon as Friday, The Information reported Thursday.
| 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.
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| 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.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta will increase the price of the Quest 3 by $100, to $599.99, and both Quest 3S models by $50, due to the memory shortage, starting on April 19 — Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more. Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more. … Meta is the next tech company to hike …
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April — SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vesting date for shares awarded to employees to as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter … | 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 … | 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, Tubefilter, MobileSyrup, Pocket-lint, SammyGuru, MediaPost, and Digital Music News
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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
More: Bloomberg, Sherwood News, Taipei Times, SupplyChainBrain, Bloomberg, and Financial Times. LinkedIn: Peter Elstrom
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
More: The Information, TSMC, Yahoo Finance, The Motley Fool, ZeroHedge News, The Asia Business Daily, and Nikkei Asia
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| Robert Scammell / Business Insider: |
NYC-based Nas.com, an AI platform founded by content creator Nas Daily that helps solo entrepreneurs build online stores, raised a $27M Series A led by Khosla — - Nas Daily's Nuseir Yassin has secured $27 million for his AI platform, Nas.com. — Nas.com helps solo entrepreneurs build …
More: Tubefilter
| 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.
More: Toronto Star and Digital Trends
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ — Hub will aim to forge China-proof supply chains with automated factories and local resources — An agreement with the Philippines …
Forums: Hacker News
| Jessica Hill / Associated Press: |
Roblox agrees to pay $12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users — Roblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12 million … | 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 … | Qwen: |
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks — · 4355 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGING FACE — MODELSCOPE — DISCORD| 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.
More: NIST, CSO, Help Net Security, and Aikido Security's Blog
X: @lindseyod123, @hackswithcoffee, @ericgeller, and @ryanaraine
Bluesky: @tonystark and @campuscodi.risky.biz
| George Winslow / TV Tech: |
IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit $294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit $117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit $78B, up 25.4% — The 13.9% pop was driven by social media, up 32.6% to $117.7 billion and digital video, up 25.4% to $74 billion last year| 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.Sponsor Posts
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