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Anthropic tightens limits on Claude subscriptions
Axios says the change underscores how agent-style usage can overwhelm ‘all-you-can-eat’ subscription models.
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Anthropic product exec Cat Wu says the next leap for AI is proactivity
In a TechCrunch interview, Wu says Claude should move from reactive chat to understanding workflows and setting up automations.
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U.S. bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
Community Bank said an unauthorized AI app led to exposure of customers’ personal data, prompting disclosure after it detected the issue.
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Google DeepMind demos an AI-enabled pointer meant to bring Gemini into everyday UI
DeepMind outlines interaction principles and shows experimental demos where a pointer can select on-screen elements and invoke Gemini without switching contexts.
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AI-assisted hacking is already here, Google warns
Google says it may have found the first known case of cybercriminals using AI to identify and exploit an undisclosed zero-day flaw.
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
The Mira Murati-founded startup says its ‘interaction models’ can process user input and generate output simultaneously, aiming for more natural full-duplex conversations.
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Kevin Rose is rebooting Digg yet again, this time as a site that ranks AI news using real-time signals from X.
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OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API
OpenAI added new Realtime API capabilities for voice conversations, live transcription, and translation, including a new GPT‑Realtime‑2 model.
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Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI goes full-stack, demo shows
The $105M-seed startup unveiled its first robotics foundation model, GENE-26.5, alongside its own human-sized robotic hands and data-capture hardware to speed training and evaluation.
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Researchers say they ‘gaslit’ Claude into giving explosive-making instructions
Security researchers at Mindgard told The Verge they used flattery and social manipulation to get Anthropic’s Claude (Sonnet 4.x) to produce restricted content without directly asking for it.
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
OpenAI says the new default ChatGPT model reduces hallucinations in sensitive domains while keeping low latency, and it’s also available via the API as “chat-latest.”
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Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Appfigures says image-model launches generate 6.5x more downloads than traditional model upgrades — but the revenue impact varies widely.
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Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
Defense Department greenlights several vendors for classified AI work while sidelining Anthropic over supply-chain concerns.
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Google releases Gemma 4 open models and switches licensing to Apache 2.0
Google’s open-model line gets a major update, with a more permissive license aimed at broader commercial and research use.
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GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage
Copilot moves to an AI-credits model that bills heavy users for inference beyond their plan’s included allocation.
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Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership to end exclusivity and allow OpenAI to use rival clouds
The revised deal drops Microsoft’s exclusive right to sell OpenAI models, while keeping Azure as OpenAI’s primary cloud partner and extending Microsoft’s license on OpenAI IP.
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Mistral AI launches ‘Workflows’ orchestration layer in public preview
VentureBeat reports the Temporal-based system, delivered via Mistral Studio, is aimed at taking enterprise AI from pilots to production with multi-step, auditable processes.
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OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and is rolling it out across ChatGPT paid tiers
TechCrunch reports the new model is positioned as OpenAI’s most capable yet, with rollout to Plus through Enterprise and a separate 5.5 Pro tier.
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DeepSeek Previews V4, Its Biggest Open-Weight Model Yet, at Prices That Undercut the Field
The Chinese AI lab's V4 Pro model tops 1.6 trillion parameters, claims near-parity with frontier models on reasoning, and costs a fraction of GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus.
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Anthropic Publishes Postmortem After Claude Code Quality Degraded for Weeks Without Detection
Three separate engineering changes between March and April caused Claude Code users to experience forgetfulness, repetition, and reduced coding intelligence — issues that persisted for weeks before all were resolved on April 20.
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OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT, Succeeding Custom GPTs for Enterprise Teams
The Codex-powered agents run continuously in the cloud, integrate with Slack and Salesforce, and allow organizations to share and schedule automated workflows across teams.
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 With Reasoning Capabilities and Sharply Better Text
The new model generates accurate multilingual text, high-fidelity marketing assets, and multi-panel comics — and is available to all ChatGPT users starting Tuesday.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for Vetted Security Professionals Under Tiered Access Program
The new model variant imposes fewer restrictions on vulnerability research and analysis than standard GPT models, giving approved security vendors and researchers a more capable tool for defensive cyber operations.
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Anthropic Signs Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal With CoreWeave to Power Claude
The agreement gives Anthropic a new tranche of Nvidia-powered data center capacity in the US, as demand for Claude continues to surge past a $30 billion annual run rate.
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Meta AI app rockets from No. 57 to No. 5 in the U.S. App Store after Muse Spark launch, with downloads up 87% in a day
The surge in installs suggests Muse Spark may have revived consumer interest in Meta's AI product, which has lagged well behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
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Meta launches Muse Spark, its first AI model from Superintelligence Labs, in a major reboot of its AI strategy
Built from scratch by the team Zuckerberg assembled after being disappointed by Llama 4, Muse Spark benchmarks favorably against models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in early evaluations.
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Anthropic launches Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative, gives Nvidia, Google, Apple, and Microsoft access to Claude Mythos Preview
The restricted AI model can autonomously find critical vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers — and Anthropic is keeping it locked away from the public for safety reasons.
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Anthropic forces Claude Code users to pay separately for OpenClaw and other third-party AI agents
The policy change, effective immediately, cuts off users from applying their Claude subscriptions to popular external AI agents, reshaping the indie tool ecosystem built around Claude.
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OpenAI reshuffles top leadership as COO Lightcap shifts to 'special projects' and Fidji Simo takes medical leave
A wave of simultaneous executive changes at OpenAI comes amid a $120 billion funding round and a strategic pivot toward enterprise AI.
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Microsoft releases three in-house AI models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — in its clearest challenge yet to OpenAI
The MAI Superintelligence team's first commercial model releases beat competitors on key benchmarks while undercutting OpenAI and Google on price.
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Anthropic acquires stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in $400 million stock deal
The acquisition accelerates Anthropic's push into life sciences, adding a ten-person team of computational drug discovery veterans to its health division.
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Google's March AI recap: Search Live goes global, Gemini gets personal memory, and a new audio model debuts
Google's monthly roundup confirms a Gemini platform that is becoming more deeply personalized, more globally accessible, and more competitive with real-time audio rivals like GPT-4o voice.
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OpenAI closes $122B funding round at $852B valuation, setting stage for IPO
The additional $12 billion raised since February, including $3 billion from individual investors through banking channels for the first time, reads less like venture financing and more like an IPO rehearsal.
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Anthropic accidentally leaks 500,000 lines of Claude Code source, exposing unreleased features and roadmap
A misconfigured npm release exposed the full agentic harness behind Claude Code — Anthropic's second significant security lapse in a week — revealing features flagged for imminent launch.
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Google's March Gemini Drop brings AI memory portability, Lyria 3 Pro, and global Search Live
Google's monthly Gemini update lets users import chat history from rival AI apps and introduces a new audio model fast enough to sustain real-time conversation in over 200 countries.
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OpenAI shuts down Sora just months after signing Disney deal, pivoting video compute to robotics
The surprise closure of OpenAI's consumer-facing video generator underscores the unsustainable cost of running generative video at scale while the company prepares for a potential IPO.
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OpenAI Pivots Its E-Commerce Strategy Away from Instant Checkout Toward Retailer Apps
After Instant Checkout stumbled due to stale product data and limited merchant adoption, OpenAI is shifting to a model where purchases redirect to retailers' own websites via in-app browsers inside ChatGPT.
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Shopify President Says AI Shopping Agents Will Open E-Commerce to 82 Percent of Retail Still Offline
Harley Finkelstein told investors that agentic personal shoppers represent a fundamentally merit-based discovery channel that will surface smaller brands to consumers far more effectively than traditional search.
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Nvidia Launches NemoClaw to Make OpenClaw Agent Platform Enterprise-Ready
The open-source stack adds policy enforcement, privacy routing, and network guardrails to OpenClaw, which Huang called the most popular open-source project in history and said every company will need a strategy for.
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Nvidia Adds BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, and Geely to Autonomous Vehicle Platform
Four new automaker partnerships announced at GTC 2026 bring Nvidia's Drive Hyperion autonomous vehicle development platform to some of the world's largest car manufacturers.
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OpenAI Acquires AI Security Platform Promptfoo to Harden Enterprise Agent Testing
The deal brings automated red-teaming and vulnerability detection into OpenAI's Frontier enterprise platform, used by more than a quarter of Fortune 500 companies.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 with 1 Million Token Context and Record Benchmark Scores
The new flagship model scores 83% on OpenAI's GDPval knowledge-work benchmark, leads on computer-use tests, and cuts errors by a third over GPT-5.2.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.3 Instant to Cut Down on Preachy, Condescending Responses
The update to ChatGPT's default model targets tone and conversational flow, reducing unsolicited emotional reassurances that frustrated users for months.
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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for High-Volume Developer Workloads
The fastest and cheapest model in Google's Gemini 3 series launches in preview at $0.25 per million input tokens, targeting cost-sensitive large-scale deployments.
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ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge 295% After Pentagon Deal as Claude Downloads Soar
App data showed a dramatic consumer backlash against OpenAI's DoD partnership, with Claude briefly surpassing ChatGPT as the top U.S. App Store download.
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Google's February Gemini Drop Delivers Gemini 3.1 Pro, Lyria 3 Music Generation, and Nano Banana 2 to Consumers
Google's monthly Gemini Drop update confirms the general consumer rollout of Gemini 3.1 Pro alongside a new AI music creation tool and an upgraded fast image model for Gemini app subscribers.
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Google and Samsung Debut Agentic Gemini Features on Galaxy S26 That Apple Still Cannot Match With Siri
At Samsung's Galaxy S26 Unpacked event, Google demonstrated Gemini's ability to autonomously complete multi-step tasks — like analyzing group chats and ordering food through apps — a capability Apple promised for Siri in 2024 but has yet to ship.