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April 9, 2026, 2:35 AM
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Financial Times:
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products  —  Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license  —  Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5%
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March  —  A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google introduces “notebooks” in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a space to organize chats and files, after adding sources in December 2025  —  The Gemini app is getting deeper NotebookLM integration after the initial source support introduced last year.
Antonis Pothitos / Reuters:
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action  —  Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
Reuters:
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years  —  U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta  —  Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Financial Times:
Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy  —  New job driving Japanese group's AI strategy would be in addition to running the UK chip company  —  Rene Haas, the chief executive of UK chip designer Arm …
More: Reuters
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news  —  Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).
Chris Smyth / Financial Times:
Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results” as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech  —  Ming Tang says the platform, which collates patient information in one place, is delivering ‘outstanding results’ in England
More: The Guardian
Financial Times:
As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter  —  Executives across finance and cyber defence map where Anthropic's Claude “plug-ins” will — and won't — change work.
Isaac Yee / CNN:
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin  —  A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data - including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics …
Bloomberg:
UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure  —  Despite attacks on regional infrastructure, G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track.  —  Peng Xiao started the year riding high.
More: The Register
Mike Cherney / Wall Street Journal:
A look at a global scramble to protect submarine cables vulnerable to potential sabotage, as new monitoring tech like distributed acoustic sensing is developed  —  U.S. and allies turn to tech, patrols and new routes to defend crucial underwater infrastructure against Russia and China
More: The Ken
Jacob Trefethen / OpenAI Foundation:
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research  —  Alzheimer's disease is one of the hardest unsolved problems in medicine, and one of the most devastating.

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From Mediagazer

Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
California AG cancels a meeting with Paramount, accusing the company of acting in bad faith by leaking and misrepresenting earlier settlement discussions

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
An arbitrator orders the Washington Post to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired for “gross misconduct” last year over posts made after Charlie Kirk's shooting

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Memo: Disney offers longtime US-based executives across Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and corporate divisions early retirement packages amid cost-cutting efforts

More News

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”
Financial Times:
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz

Earlier Picks

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets, after the GENIUS Act
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic
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