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April 12, 2026, 11:10 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses  —  Also: The latest on the foldable iPhone.  —  Apple is working on several frame styles and a unique camera design for its first smart glasses.
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  —  Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
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 appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days …
Tristan Anthony / Business Insider:
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users  —  - Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word.  — It follows February's release of Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models  —  If one thing became clear at the HumanX conference in San Francisco this week, where 6,500 executives, founders and investors gathered …
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security  —  President Donald Trump's goal of significantly boosting global sales of American AI chips risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks …
Bloomberg:
As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game  —  From Kalshi and Polymarket to niche scientific platforms, traders are predicting the weather — and climate experts are debating the results.
Washington Post:
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God”  —  The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot.  —  Summary
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure  —  India's quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players.  But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more  —  AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online.  —  On this week's Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined …

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