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The Ornn Compute Price Index shows GPU rental costs up 48% in two months. Gallup says 50% of US workers have used AI at work. Only 12% use it daily. The infrastructure is priced for a conversion the labor data hasn't delivered.
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.
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.
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 …
Roblox says developers will need Roblox Plus, a new $4.99-per-month subscription offering benefits like discounts, to publish games for Kids and Select accounts
Roblox is introducing new account types designed to give kids and younger teens age-appropriate access to chat and games, the company announced on Monday.
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.
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.
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding 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.
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 …
Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
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
China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems.
Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote before April 15
Follow Ellen Thomas … - Maine is set to pass a bill pausing new data centers until late 2027.
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 …
Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a ~1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030
TOKYO — SoftBank has established a company to develop artificial intelligence in Japan, with NEC and Honda Motor among eight peers …
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub
OpenAI has announced it's opening its first permanent London office with a capacity of over 500 team members …
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.
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
Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices
Firms may raise prices for fixed-fee contracts if clients keep sending flurries of emails and letters
Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X
The government began an inquiry last year into whether ad firms were funneling client dollars away from certain media platforms
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 …
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 Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements
Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation”
Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise up to ~$2.2B; Victory Giant was valued at ~$37B on April 10
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work at least a few times per year; leaders are most likely to see AI's impact as positive
Employees report productivity gains with AI but not fundamental shifts in how work gets done. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement …
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.
Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posts its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla, hitting 2M+ views; a verified @elonmusk Instagram account has yet to post
A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.
The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure
Anthony Whelan, a former adviser on tech, vows to pursue cases irrespective of ‘noise’ around them
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be “used to influence federal elections” and is to educate the public on AI policy
The company's money isn't allowed to be used in the midterm battles. Without it, pro-safety candidates may be even more outgunned than expected
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 …
A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times
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
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 Terafab
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
Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days after DOD designated the company a supply chain risk
Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities
The e-commerce giant's new-car buying program expands to Jeep, Chevrolet and other brands — Now you can buy a brand-new Corvette on Amazon.com .
Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure
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 …
A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed
Tucked into an unassuming office building in San Francisco, one startup is betting on an unconventional way of alleviating the AI energy crisis: living human cells.
Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365
As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features …
Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it
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
Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks
Now The Bank Of England And UK Treasury Are Holding Urgent Talks On Anthropic's ClaudeJeffrey Burt /Security Boulevard:Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. BanksMihika ...
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more
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”
OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …