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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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @timmarchman, @mims, and @shashj
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
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 — Leading banks, insurers and exchanges to be warned over cyber security vulnerabilities exposed by Claude Mythos
More: Benzinga, Security Boulevard, France 24, Reuters, TechCrunch, Reuters, and New York Times
| 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.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand — AI companies are rationing offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| New York Times: |
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.
More: Crypto Briefing. Bluesky: @antonhur.com, @justinhendrix, and @sheeraf
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Ellen Thomas / Business Insider: |
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 on April 15 — Follow Ellen Thomas … - Maine is set to pass a bill pausing new data centers until late 2027.| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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 …
More: The New Stack, XDA Developers, The Deep View, MakeUseOf, TechCrunch, Towards Data Science, and PCMag
X: @databricks, @robloxnewsroom, @sierraplatform, @stanleytang, @sierraplatform, @edludlow, @alexeheath, and @pcmag. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Bloomberg: |
Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 — Victory Giant Technology Huizhou Co. began taking investor orders for a listing in Hong Kong that may raise as much as HK$17.5 billion …
More: Reuters
| 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.| 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 …
More: Fortune India and Tech in Asia
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