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Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for "physical AI" by 2030 (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to employees (Financial Times)

Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 (Ellen Thomas/Business Insider)

Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (Wall Street Journal)

Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (Bloomberg)

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider)

Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco ...)

A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times)

A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)

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Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks (Martin Arnold/Financial Times)

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Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times (Derek Wallbank/Bloomberg)

The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements (Simon Batt/XDA Developers)

Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)

Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post)

A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Google says Polymarket bets "briefly appeared in Google News in error", after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the "For You" section (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

How AI is transforming golf: optimizing course operations, virtual assistants handling tee time bookings, and AI instructor apps improving player performance (Bradley S. Klein/Wall Street Journal)

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a "legal ambush", calling them "legally improper and factually unsupported" (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35% (Clara Murray/Financial Times)

Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand (Reuters)

UK activist investor Palliser has built a stake in Ajinomoto, urging it to raise prices for its ABF, a key material used to form advanced chipmaking substrates (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production (Matthew Martin/Semafor)

OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta (Bloomberg)

The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi (Jack Queen/Reuters)

Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit (Wall Street Journal)

Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters)

Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry (Sam Altman)

Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information)

Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe (Reuters)

Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing (Bloomberg)

Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept)

Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET)

Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times)

Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)