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- In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News) [2d]
- Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information) [2d]
- Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [2d]
- Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription (The Information) [2d]
- Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on "weak-to-strong supervision", where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (Anthropic) [2d]
- Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board (CNBC) [2d]
- The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (Sean Hollister/The Verge) [2d]
- US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip company DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (CTech) [2d]
- AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (Reuters) [2d]
- Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [2d]
- Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor) [2d]
- OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.4-Cyber to some participants in its Trusted Access for Cyber program, a week after Anthropic announced Mythos (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor (Claude) [2d]
- Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [2d]
- Nvidia stock rose 18%+ over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) [2d]
- Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) [2d]
- Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate (Bloomberg) [2d]
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- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 15 (game #1039) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, April 15 (game #1542) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, April 15 (game #773) [2d]
- Pixar is joining Disney Lorcana for the first time with The Incredibles — here’s an exclusive look at 4 cards [2d]
- ‘Like poetry in motion’: I went to the Clair Obscur: A Painted Symphony concert, and it mirrored the game’s beauty to perfection [2d]
- 'AI is reshaping how infrastructure is built and scaled': Intel and Google sign major Xeon chip deal to power the next generation of AI [2d]
- DLSS 5’s biggest crime is making us forget how good Nvidia's tech can be, as my time testing DLSS 4.5 proves [2d]
- 'Chatbots respond not just to what you ask, but how you ask it': Report finds AI agents might be sucking up to you and not giving you proper answers — here's how to fix it [2d]
- 'Smartphones have physical limitations': Report explains why AI is kickstarting a billion-dollar hardware arms race for millions of creators worldwide [2d]
- The RAM crisis strikes again — Samsung Galaxy phones and Microsoft Surface laptops just got a whole lot more expensive [2d]
- Memorial Day sales 2026 — when they start and what deals you can expect [2d]
- Exit 8 director Genki Kawamura reveals the eerie filmmaking technique he learned from Parasite's Bong Joon Ho [2d]
- I've found 7 top laptop deals in the latest Best Buy sale — HP, Asus, Lenovo, and Apple from $159 [2d]
- Looking for a lightweight vacuum? I'm a professional reviewer and these are the models I swear by for effective cleaning with minimal strain [2d]
- Dyson's latest floor cleaner is a super-slim electric mop that got my hard floors sparkling in minutes [2d]
- The Saros 20 is a predictably accomplished addition to Roborock's robot vacuum lineup, delivering all-round cleaning excellence [2d]
- 'I’m pretty sure actually we really do not need to work for five days' Zoom CEO calls for end of traditional work schedules — says 3-day working week should become the norm [2d]
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