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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program — OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
More: OpenAI, XDA Developers, New York Times, PYMNTS.com, CNET, The Information, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Implicator.ai, DataBreachToday.com, Financial Times, Simon Willison's Weblog, Axios, DNYUZ, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, and iClarified
X: @miles_brundage, @nrehiew_, @mattshumer_, @openai, @openai, @andrewcurran_, @chatgpt21, and @morqon. Bluesky: @seldo.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| About Amazon: |
Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services — Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon …
More: Engadget, Seattle Business Journal, MacRumors, Benzinga, Bloomberg, iTnews, The Verge, 425 Business, CNBC, The Register, CNET, Ars Technica, Dow Jones Newswires, Australian Financial Review, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, iDrop News, TechCrunch, Techstrong IT, Telecompetitor, Thurrott, The American Bazaar, PCMag, WKYC-TV, SpaceNews, HotHardware, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Fierce Network, Quartz, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Pulse 2.0, The Mac Observer, Constellation Research, MobileSyrup, Via Satellite, Apple Must, Android Authority, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, NOLA.com, The Next Web, The Information, Axios, 9to5Mac, and Bloomberg
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LinkedIn: Simon Buckingham, Emil Protalinski, Jonathan Sauder, Anshel Sag, Peter Krawiec, and Globalstar
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @marypcbuk
Forums: r/MDASpaceInvestors, r/Starlink, r/BlueOrigin, and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
More: PCMag, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Proactive, Barron's Online, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, iPhone in Canada, The Motley Fool, Bitcoin Insider, Los Angeles Times, Watcher Guru, The Apple Post, Newser, DatacenterDynamics, Forbes Middle East, iClarified, Business Today, and Financial Times
LinkedIn: Dave McCarthy. Bluesky: @retornam. Forums: r/technology, r/Economics, r/news, and r/wallstreetbets
| CNBC: |
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board — Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design …
More: Meta Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, Broadcom Inc., Bloomberg, Reuters, Anadolu Ajansı …, CNBC, and Channel NewsAsia
| Claude: |
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
More: The Register, The New Stack, Thurrott, and The Deep View
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks — Anthropic's Claude Code has a new repeatable routines feature that works even when your Mac is offline.
More: Claude, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, and The New Stack
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets — The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.
More: The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, TestingCatalog, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, CNET, Search Engine Journal, Chrome Unboxed, 9to5Google, Android Police, The Deep View, Android Central, The New Stack, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Engadget, Android Authority, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada, and Thurrott
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more — After testing got underway in September, the “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”
More: The Keyword, Engadget, The Economic Times, Neowin, Thurrott, Phandroid, The Verge, iPhone in Canada, XDA Developers, Android Authority, PCWorld, and Digital Trends
X: @omooretweets, @zachtratar, and @rajanpatel
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok may be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.| Bloomberg: |
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats — The US Treasury Department's technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC's Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting …
More: Semafor, The Asia Business Daily, Axios, Bloomberg, American Banker, ZeroHedge News, and Politico
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 — Make it make sense. Make it make sense. … The United States' foreign router ban didn't make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.| Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok “capture over 90 percent of social media advertising revenues,” an Omdia analyst tells the StreamTV Europe gathering in Lisbon.| Laura Bratton / The Information: |
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026 …
More: MakeUseOf. X: @cdpetty, @dwlz, @altcap, @ericvishria, @cto_junior, @clementdelangue, @tunguz, @anissagardizy8, @chamath, and @virtualmilin
Bluesky: @selectric.space and @edzitron.com
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes — Microsoft has ended production on the Surface Hub 3, with no plans to make more in the future, putting an end to its collaborative displays line.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …
More: PC Gamer, The Register, TechRadar, Implicator.ai, Slate, and Inc.com
X: @bcherny, @trq212, @petergyang, @hesamation, @om_patel5, @paul_cal, @daniellefong, @0xdevshah, @zoink, @marcospereeira, @benbajarin, @mweinbach, @hesamation, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @erikvoorhees, @grummz, @patrickmoorhead, @trq212, and @tengyanai. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one — Large language models' ever-accelerating rate of improvement raises two particularly important questions for alignment research.
More: Anthropic. X: @bowang87, @anthropicai, @_nathancalvin, @mattshumer_, @janhkirchner, @sethbannon, @janleike, @tokenbender, and @scaling01
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February — Follow Ben Bergman … - Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion.| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week — Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations …
X: @boringmarketer, @d4m1n, @stevehou, @8teapi, @andrewcurran_, @stocksavvyshay, @steph_palazzolo, and @apples_jimmy
Forums: r/singularity and r/ClaudeAI
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
A malicious Ledger Live clone on Apple's App Store seems to have drained $9.5M+ from 50+ victims on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and XRP from April 7 to 13 — A malicious Ledger Live clone slipped onto Apple's App Store, draining millions from dozens of victims across multiple blockchains in a week-long phishing campaign.
More: 9to5Mac, San Francisco Chronicle, TheStreet, BleepingComputer, The Block, Stereogum, crypto.news, AppleInsider, Cointelegraph, MacRumors, Decrypt, and iPhone in Canada
X: @glove, @zachxbt, @glove, @zachxbt, @glove, @cointelegraph, @ochiakatsuki, @cointelegraph, and @deeze. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics and MacRumors Forums
| CTech: |
US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B — The Israeli company's photonic chip technology enables faster, lower-cost data transfer in next-generation AI clusters.| The Information: |
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic's Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation — It's just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify's AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.
More: Salesforce Ventures and Mintlify
X: @matsiiako, @skeptrune, @kevinzhang, @handotdev, @handotdev, @hahnbeelee, @handotdev, @handotdev, and @jenniferhli. LinkedIn: Salesforce Ventures
| Reuters: |
AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit on Tuesday launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed …
More: MediaPost, Investing.com, MediaPost, Axios, About Amazon, Inc, MobiHealthNews, and Amazon Web Services
| Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: |
Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra now costs $280 more — Some of these price hikes are absolutely massive, and perhaps worst of all, they suggest many new Galaxy devices this year will be costlier.
More: Android Police, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechRadar, Neowin, SamMobile, SammyGuru, CNET, Android Authority, Cult of Mac, and Pocket-lint. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| New York Times: |
US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses — The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman's home … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Kraken parent company Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at ~$13.3B — Deutsche Börse AG invested $200 million in Payward Inc., the parent of crypto trading platform Kraken … | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M — Series B brings total funding to $68 million as brands rethink AI visibility — If you want to shape media strategy—not just optimize it—upgrade your expertise.
More: FinSMEs, Bluefish AI, and Pulse 2.0
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15 — Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
More: Google for Developers, Ars Technica, CNET, Android Central, Engadget, Mashable, and Android Authority
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to rent 30K Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a Narvik, Norway site that was initially intended for OpenAI, which marketed it for Stargate — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent data center capacity at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed …
More: Microsoft, TheEnergyMag, and spiked
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