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| Financial Times: |
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 …
More: Quartz, The Verge, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, Decrypt, PCMag, New York Post, The Sun, The Guardian, MobileSyrup, Implicator.ai, Bloomberg, Futurism, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada, Mother Jones, Livemint, Blockonomi, Notebookcheck, crypto.news, Newser, The Economic Times, Financial Post, Engadget, and PYMNTS.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/antiwork, r/agi, r/BetterOffline, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| AI Security Institute: |
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.
More: Decrypt, The Cyber Express, and Marcus on AI
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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” — Microsoft is getting ready to address Game Pass pricing concerns.
More: Video Games Chronicle, VideoCardz.com, Pure Xbox, Kotaku, DayOne, Tech4Gamers, Gameranx, KitGuru, ScreenRant, Dexerto, TheGamer, and GamingBolt
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/gaming, and r/xbox
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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 …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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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 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 …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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 … | Stanford HAI: |
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.| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
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 …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, and Sherwood News
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
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.
More: 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and San Francisco Examiner
X: @knibbs. LinkedIn: John Battelle. Bluesky: @stinasdemons.com. Forums: r/DataHoarder, r/internetarchive, and r/technology
| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
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.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Decrypt, The Coin Republic, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, DL News, Coinpedia Fintech News, Protos, Bitcoin Insider, Unchained, Gizmodo, The Crypto Basic, Blockonomi, CoinDesk, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, Modern Consensus, The Merkle News, Bitcoin News, The Block, and crypto.news
| Veronica Irwin / Transformer: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: Fast Company, Bloomberg, and Implicator.ai
X: @firstadopter, @morqon, @benitoz, and @firstadopter. LinkedIn: Angel Au-Yeung. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/technology
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
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 — Amazon Leo is trying to steal some of the spotlight from Starlink's in-flight Wi-Fi business by showing off its own satellite internet antenna for commercial jets.
More: Benzinga, About Amazon, The Verge, and SpaceNews
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