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Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico)

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (Konstantin Kakaes/Quanta Magazine)

Maine's legislature passes a bill blocking new data centers that exceed 20 MW capacity until November 2027, making it the first state to enact such a measure (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal)

Omdia: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok now capture over 90% of social media ad revenue, with Meta accounting for 70% of the total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

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)

Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; it was valued at $380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok may be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News)

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)

Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription (The Information)

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)

Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board (CNBC)

The FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B (CTech)

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, an AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (Reuters)

Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B in April, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor)

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor (Claude)

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)

Nvidia's stock rose 18%+ over the past 10 days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Microsoft agrees to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from Nscale at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of Stargate (Bloomberg)

Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)

Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a faster version of its flagship text-to-image model, which it says offers production-ready quality at ~50% the cost (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Pillar, which helps businesses driven by commodities, like metals, manage financial risk, raised a $20M seed led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $23M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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)

A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats (Bloomberg)

YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

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)

Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (Bloomberg)

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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)

Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena)

Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir employee Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, super PAC Leading the Future opposing his run, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)

Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B for Globalstar, or $90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (Reuters)

Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services (About Amazon)

EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to $500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Kraken parent company Payward is raising $200M from Frankfurt stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for a 1.5% fully diluted stake, valuing Kraken at ~$13.3B (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans to build two more factories in addition to one that will be completed in 2026, more than doubling its production capacity (Reuters)

Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times)

OpenAI's new economic agenda is oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical, and largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox)

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and included other AI executives' addresses (New York Times)