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US Effort to Recover Downed Fighter Pilot Fails (Tasnim News Agency)
https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/04/03/3555907/us-effort-to-recover-downed-fighter-pilot-fails
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p55#a260403p55

Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Boris Cherny/@bcherny)
https://x.com/bcherny/status/2040206440556826908

Boris Cherny (@bcherny) on X
Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

Clawed
On Anthropic and the Department of War

OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT every weekday (John Coogan/@johncoogan)
https://x.com/johncoogan/status/2039756493621542915

John Coogan (@johncoogan) on X
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/openai-super-app-plan-codex

Inside OpenAI's super app plan
Why Codex is becoming the foundation for everything at OpenAI. Also: Fidji Simo's internal memo about taking a leave of absence.

Sam Altman says "the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI" and no private company should decide the fate of the world (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first "real deal" decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant

TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk
TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)
https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/

EmDash Feedback
So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to t…

Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a "frugal AI" approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/frugal-ai-big-tech/

Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.