Amazon will invest $5 billion now and up to $20 billion more (up to $25 billion total) in Anthropic, which committed to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade and secured up to 5 gigawatts of training capacity. - CNBC

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again, recommends Anthropic API keys for production, and notes Claude 4.6 supports cacheRetention options and a context-1M beta requiring enabled credentials while rejecting legacy token auth. - OpenClaw AI

Researcher says Claude Desktop enables Chrome extensions without telling the user. - The Register

Google DeepMind engineers prefer Claude over Gemini but not everyone is allowed to use Claude, sparking internal tensions and a strike force to improve internal coding tools - Business Insider

Google forms 'strike team' to improve internal coding tools - The Verge

Google assembled a four-partner custom chip supply chain with Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell and Intel, debuted Ironwood TPU GA (~10× v5p, 192 GB HBM3E, 7.2 TB/s, scalable to 9,216 chips), and plans millions of shipments this year. - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Hey Gucci, what is this? Google smart glasses are coming - Ubergizmo

Claw and Order: OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger’s TED talk on when he realized he was onto something - TED

'The Mad Lad figured it out on its own.'

'Peter, this is not hockey stick growth. This is stripper pole.'

In a sign of increasing compute constraints, GitHub paused new signups for Copilot Student, Pro and Pro+, tightened usage limits, removed Opus models from Pro (keeping Opus 4.7 on Pro+ while removing Opus 4.5/4.6), and offers notification warnings plus April refund requests April 20–May 20. - The GitHub Blog

Bring your own tokens, kids…costs said to have doubled since January

The Musk vs Altman trial is fast approaching. The stakes are high for OpenAI and its CEO. - Business Insider

OpenAI partners with consulting firms to sell Codex - The Wall Street Journal

OpenAI released Chronicle, a research-preview feature for Pro Mac Codex that runs background agents capturing recent screen content into editable, on-device "memories" to provide context-aware assistance, requiring macOS Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions. - 9to5Mac

don’t let it see your secrets on screen

This chat sponsored by Temu: Leaked March 27 StackAdapt pitch deck says StackAdapt partnered with OpenAI to pilot in-ChatGPT ad placements offering CPMs of $15-$60 and requiring a $50,000 minimum pilot spend. - Adweek

Beta users are leaking GPT 5.5 capabilities - Geeky Gadgets

Inside Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle to be Trump’s ‘first buddy,’ how it ended up in court and could destroy OpenAI - New York Post

Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

photo caption notwithstanding, Altman does not own a $250m yacht

Samsung unveiled Project Luna at Milan Design Week, a concept compact tabletop AI home robot with a circular display and swiveling base intended as a smart-home hub, but Samsung provided no specifications or launch timeline. (possibly inspired by Apple's POC tabletop speaker/robot that tracks you) - Digital Trends

Tim Cooked: CEO of Apple to step down: ‘the greatest privilege of my life’ - the Guardian

Ternus around: John Ternus to succeed Tim Cook as Apple's CEO, and Wall Street analysts say he must fuse Apple's hardware expertise with AI to sustain growth amid mounting AI-driven competition, losing the world's most valuable title to Nvidia, and U.S. onshoring pressure. - Yahoo

If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. - Anil Dash

Meta hired three employees from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab — founding members Mark Jen and Yinghai Lu and researcher Tianyi Zhang — marking seven TML founding members who have left the roughly $12 billion startup, sources said. - Business Insider

“When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat. Karp is… not a subtle thinker.” - Tech Policy Press

Amazon Fire Festival? Bezos AI lab Project Prometheus nears $38B valuation for industrial AI models - Financial Times

BlackRock is undertaking an AI transformation. - The Wall Street Journal

rebranded to BlackBox

Photoshop your org chart: Adobe introduced CX Enterprise, an AI agent-based platform to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and other functions. - The Wall Street Journal

Vertical AI apps like Canva are pivoting to AI agent orchestration platforms as Claude Code, Cowork and similar agent platforms have gained the ability to perform vertical tasks. - The Verge

Yelp expands AI assistant to all categories with direct bookings - The Verge

My 200 tabs are becoming sentient: Browsers become AI operating systems that automate the web - Hacker Noon

Mediator.ai uses Nash bargaining and LLMs to convert narratives into scored agreements, demonstrated in a bakery dispute yielding a 60/40 split. - Mediator.ai

Failure-first "inversion" prompting, used with models such as Gemini, requires listing 3–5 likely failure modes and acting as a harsh skeptic before answering, and is widely used by coders, AI support teams, and online communities to reduce yes-bot sycophancy. - PCWorld

Gaslight the AI before it gaslights you

Zero-trust is mandatory with agents, access to data must be denied if the agent has any ability to share or exfiltrate data inappropriately. - TechRepublic

Lovable coding platform bug exposed user code for 48 days - Business Insider

Enterprise LLMs fail 5–15% of routine tasks like reading invoices, despite acing math exams - Fast Company

Major chatbots answer nearly half of health questions incorrectly - The Washington Post

Ask your doctor if Skynet is right for you: Doctronic's AI prescription pilot faces regulatory gray zone - The Washington Post

Med student created AI-generated "MAGA Girl" persona to scam men out of thousands in catfish side hustle - WIRED

never give a sucker an even break, being suckered by people pretending to like them is their whole personality

Experts urge Europe to set clear AI standards before losing competitive edge, as CEOs and some politicos say tough rules are driving investment elsewhere. - Financial Times

Austerity as a service: The UK government will ask departments to make further savings and touted a "big win" from artificial intelligence. - Bloomberg

Maryland is using AI to modernize permitting processes, aiming to clear bottlenecks that slow hiring and job creation. - The Washington Post

ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal: - kenklippenstein.com

China held roughly two‑thirds of global effective robotics patents (over 190,000) as of 2024, and its humanoid 'Lightning' completed a half‑marathon in 50:26, outperforming 12,000 humans and demonstrating operational robotics progress. - The Washington Post

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 - Kimi

Qwentum leap: Qwen3.6 Max Preview matches Meta's Muse Spark per Artificial Analysis, both are proprietary models from formerly open labs - Artificial Analysis

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving - Qwen

we were open, once

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI assistants will micromanage workers by handling coding, scheduling and analytics, may make some jobs redundant but ultimately create more, and will boost productivity while lowering costs. - Yahoo

Historical automation reduced farm employment from about 41% in 1900 to roughly 2% by 2000 and, while Acemoglu and Restrepo show prior automation created net jobs, experts warn AI targeting cognitive tasks could cause displacement without sufficient reinstatement. - Quartz

Resume, meet paper shredder: Global Work AI survey of 1,000 U.S. job seekers and TechRadar report that about 75% of resumes are filtered by Applicant Tracking Systems before human review, as ATS scan keywords and formatting and can reject qualified candidates. - TechRadar

75% of web designers say AI is hurting business - TechRadar

AES used Maximo robots to install 100 MW at Bellefield, with crews fitting ~24 photovoltaic modules per person per hour; Civ Robotics' CivDot marks ~3,000 layout points daily with ~8 mm accuracy and 100+ units are in the field. - OilPrice.com

Val Kilmer's likeness was reconstructed posthumously with generative AI for As Deep as the Grave with his family's consent, prompting major awards bodies—including SAG-AFTRA, the Academy and the Recording Academy—to reconsider eligibility and set new rules for AI-generated performances. - Variety

Steven Soderbergh and other top directors turn to generative AI for imagery, virtual sets and lighting, with Doug Liman citing budget cuts from $300m to $70m - the Guardian

Deezer says 44% of new music uploads—about 75,000 daily—are AI-generated, accounting for a small share of streams most of which it demonetizes as fraudulent, and it developed detection technology claiming <0.01% false positives and explicit AI labeling. - Ars Technica

AI is reshaping art attribution by using algorithmic methods that challenge connoisseurs and influence multimillion-dollar attribution disputes. - Newser

A new analysis finds quantum computers can provide near-term advantages for machine-learning tasks by performing calculations infeasible for classical machines, potentially reducing AI compute costs and driving investment in quantum and hybrid quantum–classical platforms. - New Scientist

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