Tootfinder

Easy fix: Go home and stop murdering people half-way round the world, you sick fucks.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/fire-on-us-aircraft-carrier-in-middle-east-leaves-over-600-crew-members-without-…

Fire on US aircraft carrier in Middle East leaves over 600 crew members without beds: Report
Blaze on USS Gerald R. Ford took more than 30 hours to put out, with dozens of service members suffering smoke inhalation - Anadolu Ajansı

Iran foreign minister says passage though Hormuz strait is open during ceasefire
Passage through the strait will be on the coordinated route announced by the Ports and Maritime Organisation of Iran
Trump says US naval blockade of Iranian ports will remain until deal is reached

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that "improves how the model processes text", but "the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens" (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/16/anthrop

Anthropic reveals new Opus 4.7 model with focus on advanced software engineering - 9to5Mac
Anthropic has announced its latest AI model with Claude Opus 4.7. The new version arrives two months after the previous...

¿Quién dirigirš la nueva entrega de "El acorazado Potemkin", Spileberg? https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days,
as Trump attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.

The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircra…

U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
The deployment includes sailors and Marines due to arrive as the administration attempts to enforce a maritime blockade against the regime in Tehran.

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is "less broadly capable" than Claude Mythos Preview and that its "cyber capabilities are not as advanced" as those of Mythos Preview (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-model-m…

Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI model that is less risky than Mythos
Claude Mythos Preview is Anthropic's most powerful AI model that excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software.

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect,
-- pausing fighting in the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced over 2.1 million.
The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful talks” at the White House.
Both leaders welcome…

The Europeans have very little intention of getting dragged into a war,
which they didn't participate in deciding,
which they weren't consulted on,
and for which they don't see that deploying warships to the Strait of Hormuz would actually make any difference.
The truth of the matter is that Iran is exploiting its asymmetric advantages.
And so deploying further ships on the straits would make no difference.
What would make a difference is for t…

Middle East experts discuss Trump's pressure on NATO to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Iran is still blocking the Strait of Hormuz and President Trump is now demanding that NATO allies act to help reopen it. For two views on this and the war, Amna Nawaz spoke with retired Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan and Nathalie Tocci. Donegan is the former commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet and is now at the Middle East Institute. Tocci is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/openai-models-life-sciences-drugs

OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research
Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.