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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: |
| 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.
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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
| 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, Axios, Gizmodo, iTnews, International Business Times, Futurism, Crypto Briefing, and ZeroHedge News
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Forums: r/technology and r/singularity
| 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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| 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.| 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.
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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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| 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 … | 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
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
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| 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
| 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.
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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 …
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| 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 … | 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
| 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| 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.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt — Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise $180M to $200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months — Artificial intelligence startup Upscale AI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of about $2 billion, according to people with knowledge of the efforts.
More: TechCrunch
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, raised a $150M Series C led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation — Matan Grinberg's Factory, which offers autonomous coding tools, is competing with the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Google is negotiating a US DOD deal that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing Google's previous stance — Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google's Gemini AI models …
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Forums: r/news, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together — In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.
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