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April 13, 2026, 1:10 PM
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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; source: Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test his AI character to offer feedback to staff  —  Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead …
Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard:
Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun was fired from a car early on April 12; police arrest two suspects  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal  —  OpenAI's newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company's alliance …
Stanford HAI:
2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more  —  AI's influence on society has never been more pronounced.  —  At Stanford HAI, we believe AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of the 21st century.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that has been used to blacklist investors  —  World Liberty Financial Inc., a Trump family crypto venture, is facing an investor revolt that includes billionaire backer Justin Sun …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA  —  As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive's vast collection of web pages.
More: 9to5Mac and San Francisco Examiner
X: @knibbs.  LinkedIn: John Battelle.  Bluesky: @stinasdemons.com.  Forums: r/DataHoarder and r/technology
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review  —  People who don't do an age check can only access family-friendly games. … Roblox is about to make a big change …
AI Security Institute:
Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025  —  The AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted evaluations of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview (announced on 7th April) to assess its cybersecurity capabilities.
Wall Street Journal:
Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for one hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by rising agentic AI demand  —  AI companies are rationing offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom  —  Well known hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers  —  More bad news for Rockstar Games.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia “has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape”  —  Shares of Dell Technologies Inc. and HP Inc. jumped after a report from website SemiAccurate that Nvidia Corp. was seeking …

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Hayden Field / The Verge:
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google” and overstating its “run rate by roughly $8B”Find
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Shares of Dell and HP jump after a report said Nvidia “has been in negotiations for over a year to buy a large company and it will reshape the PC landscape”Find
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Bloomberg:
Intel added $100B+ in value and now has a $300B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy an Ireland fab and join TerafabFind
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AI Security Institute:
Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025Find
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Stanford HAI:
2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and moreFind
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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressureFind
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Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365Find
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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
A US judge dismisses Trump's $10B defamation suit against WSJ over an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 letter to Epstein, but says Trump can re-file

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Tristan Anthony / Business Insider:
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users
New York Times:
A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI
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