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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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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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| 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 and San Francisco Examiner
| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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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X: @videotech, @gameroll_, and @austinc3301
| 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 and Implicator.ai
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| 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 …
More: Quartz, The Information, Reuters, and Blockonomi
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
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.| Andy Kemp / Gallup: |
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 … | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
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
More: RTÉ, Politico, The Irish Times, and Bloomberg
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