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Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-ar…

Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Backed by $70 million, Artemis is tackling the new reality of faster, cheaper AI-driven attacks.

AI is improving all the time but don't be too worried about AGI, take for example this clockwatching benchmark.
Source: #AI

A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

"The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…

The saga of the bot written hit piece continues this time claiming that @… had a AI write an article about it when the AI couldn’t scrape the blog it just hallucinated some quotes that never existed. Surreal. Ars definitely have to come clean on what the actual fuck happened there.

An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution. 
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code
When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack.

This is quite a good interview with Prof Carl Bergstrom (from my alma mater, University of Washington) on 'AI' https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023013/professor-carl-bergstrom-living-with-ai

Why do even the most advanced 'World Models' still hallucinate? Why does AI hit a mathematical wall of 'combinatorial explosion' the moment we try to make it truly autonomous?
https://ocrampal.com/frequently-asked-questions-geneosophy-vs-ai/

Frequently Asked Questions: Geneosophy vs. AI
1. Is Geneosophy just another type of AI? No. Geneosophy is not a refinement of AI; it is an entirely different approach to intelligence and living organisms. While AI is built on the computational model—which manipulates relationships between already existing concepts—Geneosophy focuses on the generation of those concepts

A misanthrope calling Anthropic misanthropic.
https://thefederal.com/category/international/elon-musk-anthropic-claude-ai-bias-criticism-229715

Elon Musk says Anthropic’s Claude AI is ‘misanthropic and evil’, 'hates men'
Elon Musk accuses Anthropic’s Claude AI of bias and criticizes its Constitutional AI framework amid growing tensions between xAI and the rival firm

The technology of mechanical reproduction did not end the age of art.
Likewise, the technology of text synthesis will not end of age of human thinking.
https://woborders.blog/2026/04/14/ai-is-the-mechanical-reproduction-of…

AI is the mechanical reproduction of human thought, not a means to replace it.
I’m going to be writing a lot more about AI, among other things.In part this is because a nearly unfathomable investment is being made into this technology,. Huundreds of billions of dollars …

Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit "relates to a recent procurement decision" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/scale-ai-department-of-defens…

Scale AI is taking the Department of Defense to court, and some docs are expected to be classified
The nature of the dispute with the Department of Defense, including what Scale AI is seeking, is unclear.

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
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So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns | Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
🌎 https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-inte…

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Was bereits früh prophezeit wurde:
Da kannst mit KI keine #Fachexperten ersetzen.
Manager dagegen schon eher. 🤪
https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-…

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
Meta is working to build an AI version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which he will use to interact with employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Saving The World did not happen all at once. It happened in fragments, over days, with AI-generated scripts running quietly in the background while life continued elsewhere…
https://josvelasco.com/ai-cant-save-the-world-but-it-saved-one-i-know/

Well, no, there are people on the list above brand strategists...
#AI #LLM

Eugene Healey on Instagram: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces."
3,896 likes, 102 comments - eugbrandstrat on April 13, 2026: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces.".

Nice article, about a serious problem/risk with AI models. AI poisoning.
"Part of the problem is that AI models can offer wildly different results depending on exactly what is asked and what kind of information they are drawing on. Search for “bixonimania”, and Google’s AI overview might treat it as a legitimate condition. Ask it “Is bixonimania real?” and the same AI overview might confirm that it isn’t legitimate."

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

For those of you in or adjacent to the software development world, this is a pretty interesting article on both the state of the art and the social issues its generating.
#AIandSociety #AI
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_a-rogue…

"According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees using his voice, image, mannerisms, and public statements, 'so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.'"
Perfect. No notes.
https://www.

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-lan…

This AI Startup Just Landed a Deal That Could Transform Newsrooms
Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises?

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec development you should know, including
--Allies warn of cyber divide as US firms gatekeep powerful Mythos AI,
--Goldman Sachs is working closing with Mythos to protect itself,
--UK's AISI tested Mythos, which excelled over other models,
--Bain & Co. was easily exposed by pentesters,
--Kraken suffered two insider security incidents,
--EU to abandon Chinese inverters,
--PowerScho…

Allies warn of cyber divide as US firms gatekeep powerful Mythos AI
Goldman Sachs is working closing with Mythos to protect itself, UK's AISI tested Mythos which excelled over other models, Bain & Co. was easily exposed by pentesters, Kraken suffered two insider security incidents, EU to abandon Chinese inverters, much more

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI Capitalism creates an energy vampire

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Just a few months ago, AI coding was described as an overblown “auto-complete”, auto-complete has been around for functions and classes and what not since…I don’t know, years ? imagine if PR were rejected because the developed had used auto-complete to help him/her write a piece of code, or worst, a bug fix? I fully understand that no humans should be tasked to review spam PR & spam automated “contributions” but if a contribution is “generated” by Cla…

'Automate tasks, not jobs' - a great headline from a report on 'the AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services' https://stormid.com/research/

Automate tasks, not jobs: The AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services
Independent analysis identifying the highest value public sector workflows for AI driven productivity gains.

Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI https://www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts-dont-want-to-talk-to-guests-anymore-are-outsourcing-messages-to-ai/

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-lan…

This AI Startup Just Landed a Deal That Could Transform Newsrooms
Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises?

Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …

Google previews WebMCP, a new protocol for AI agent interactions
Google's WebMCP protocol lets AI agents execute structured actions on websites via browser APIs. Is this the next frontier of technical SEO?

Leuke vacature bij de Rijksoverheid.
#AI

De Rijksoverheid zoekt: AI Platform Engineer
AI Platform Engineer in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij SSC-ICT (Ministerie van BZK)

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)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can…

Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets
Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga.“I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away ...

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/white-house-utah-ai-transparency-bill

White House pressures Utah lawmaker to kill AI transparency bill
It's a sign that the Trump administration is now starting to intervene with the states in its efforts to squash AI regulation.

AI in a kids toy does what experts warned. Can we trust AI? Get Inside AI’s exclusive.
📺 #youtube

Meta AI begins to offer a wider variety of real-time content, including breaking news, and partners with News Corp, Le Figaro, Prisa, and Süddeutsche Zeitung (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/03/bringing-more-international-news-and-cont…

Bringing More International News and Content to Meta AI
Meta AI now offers a broader range of real-time content, including global news, across our apps and devices.

AI might disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.
To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me
Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir.
On Thursday Karp sat down with CNBC to chat about Palantir’s AI-driven Maven Smart System,
which the US military is using to visualize potential targets and “nominate” them to…

The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-ai-nightmares-are-coming-true/

Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.

Nice report and overview.
#AI #Stanford

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

For some live events, NBC Sports plans to use tech from Japan's Nippon Television Network that uses AI to track individual players and reframe them vertically (Pranob Mehrotra/Digital Trends)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/nb…

NBC Sports will soon use AI to put your favorite athletes front and center during live broadcasts
NBC Sports has announced it will debut a new AI feature in its mobile app later this year that will let fans follow their favorite athletes in real time.

AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked - Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds
The BBC has been shown a significant - and unfixed - cyber-security risk in a popular AI coding platform. Orchids is a so-called "vibe-coding" tool, meaning people without technical skills can use it to build apps and games by typing a text prompt into a chatbot.
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Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds
Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.

In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staffthat the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.
In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses.
The company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 …

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/14/nvidia-unveils-ising-ai-models-quan…

Nvidia unveils Ising AI models for quantum error correction and calibration  - SiliconANGLE
Nvidia unveils Ising AI models for quantum error correction and calibration  - SiliconANGLE

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
The Digg Beta relaunch lasted two months but now it’s shutting down again and laying off employees.

Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (Gil Press/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2026/01/15/tulip-rais…

Tulip Raises $120M Towards Human-Centric AI Factory
Tulip's human-centric approach to AI led it to focus on developing and deploying a new category of software that embeds AI in frontline operations.

Good article, makes you think 🤔
"How AI Destroys Institutions"
#ai

Koch’s "Americans for Prosperity" political operation is attempting to shape and help implement a U.S.
AI technology agenda, which could ultimately profit Koch’s traditional oil and gas business.
Despite the Koch network’s ongoing disagreements with Trump on issues including tariffs,
the vast political operation appears to have found common cause with the administration on
ensuring that fossil fuels, and not renewable energy sources, are central to AI develo…

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-t…

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source
Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

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)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive…

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, according to a person with knowledge of the products. Those new products could be released as soon as this week, the person said. News of the upcoming AI design tool sent the share prices of Adobe, Wix and Figma down more than 2% in the house following

A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-

AMA: AI usage among doctors doubles as confidence in technology grows
Cautious optimism remains about the promise of AI.

Nuanced and balanced blog about the role AI now plays in Coding, the good, the bad etcetera.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/developers-say-ai-coding-tools-work-and-thats-precisely-what-worries-them/

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/15/ai-edtech-learning-gi…

Exclusive: AI learning platform Gizmo raises $22M Series A
The London-based company gamifies studying.

TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-great-ai-silicon-shortage

The Great AI Silicon Shortage
TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner

Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100 deaths or $1B in damage (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-opposes-the-extreme-…

Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50 presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-chrome-ai-powered-skills/

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.

Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/20

Anthropic Uses This Startup’s AI To Answer People’s Questions About Claude Code
It’s just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify’s AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (Konstantin Kakaes/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20…

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine
AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning.

A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/nvidia-gtc-ai-jensen-huang-cpu-gpu.html
…

Nvidia's GTC will mark an AI chip pivot. Here's why the CPU is taking center stage
Nvidia and AMD are seeing huge demand for CPUs and Jensen Huang is poised to unveil details for processors specialized for agentic AI at the GTC conference.

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
The Digg Beta relaunch lasted two months but now it’s shutting down again and laying off employees.

Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, vs. $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B gross annualized revenue pace this year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/handshake-merc…

Handshake, Mercor Revenue Surges on Demand for Human Contractors to Train AI
AI firms’ voracious appetite for more data has lifted sales for obscure startups doing the industry’s unglamorous work: contracting with lawyers, PhDholders and medical doctors who grade the answers AI models generate. The latest is Handshake, a 12-year-old startup that began as a job site for ...

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/openai-has-bought-ai-personal-finance…

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro | TechCrunch
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/adobes-new…

Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks | TechCrunch
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.

Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-demos-show-…

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence and suggest next steps.

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/airb

Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada | TechCrunch
Airbnb was poised to introduce an app that doesn't just search for you, but one that "knows you." CEO Brian Chesky said, "It will help guests plan their entire trip, help hosts better run their businesses, and help the company operate more efficiently at scale."

Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/parasail-raises-32m-to-feed-tokenmaxxing-ai-de…

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant | TechCrunch
Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/technol

Man Who Attacked OpenAI C.E.O.’s Home Had List of Other A.I. Executives
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman’s home had written at length about the threat of A.I.

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/the-world-of-voice-ai-with-mati…

The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
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BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-open-ai-super-bowl-ads.html

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.

Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-changes…

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic’s Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed its pricing model in recent weeks to charge business customers based on the amount of AI they use. The shift,which hasn’t previously been reported,is ...

Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-take…

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…

Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming | TechCrunch
Peacock is betting on new AI-powered video experiences, vertical clips, and mobile games to help its growth.

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)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers

Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-s…

ByteDance Suspends Launch of Video AI Model After Copyright Disputes With Hollywood
ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, due to a string of copyright disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The TikTok parent released Seedance 2.0 to ...

The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model engages in unauthorized use of US copyrighted material "on a massive scale" (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/motion-…

Motion Picture Association Denounces 'Massive' AI Infringement
The MPA denounced Bytedance's new AI video model, saying it had led to 'massive' copyright infringement like an AI Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt video.

A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

X revises its developer API policies to "no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka "infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (André Beganski/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354736/elon-musks-x-bans-acc…

Elon Musk's X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash
X is making major changes to its API to prevent access by "InfoFi" crypto projects that seek to incentivize "reply spam," an exec said.

Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…

European regulators sidelined on Anthropic superhacking model
New AI tech could pose major cybersecurity risks but many European regulators have limited oversight.

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
Internal sources spoke with The Verge about the recent restructuring at xAI and the direction Elon Musk is taking the company.

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…

India's Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can't replace | TechCrunch
Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

X updates Grok to prevent the "editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis" and geoblocks it for all users "where it's illegal" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/x-says-grok-wi

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
X says it is changing its policies around Grok’s image-editing abilities following a multi-week outcry over the chatbot repeatedly being accused of...

Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/

TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and investment, and more (Stanford HAI)
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
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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)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/nvidia-stock-nvda-ai-streak.html

Nvidia stock is on a 10-day winning streak and up 18% over that stretch
Nvidia denied rumors that it's in talks to buy a large PC company, telling CNBC in a statement that it's "not engaged in discussions."

Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iran-wa

Iran war could wreak havoc on farmers, create a potential 'bottleneck for the entire AI story'
It's not just the oil industry that has seen soaring prices. The cost of commodities like fertilizers and helium is also rising fast.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/ai-se…

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti…

DeepSeek boosts AI model with 10-fold token addition as Zhipu AI unveils GLM-5
The upgrade will allow DeepSeek’s AI model to remember and process more information in a single conversation or task.

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission
Superhuman is disabling Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that used real writers’ names and information to give AI-generated editing advice.