Anthropic Talking to the Trump Administration About Its Next AI Model, Co-Founder Says
Anthropic is negotiating with the Trump administration about its newest frontier model, Mythos, even after the Pentagon barred the company following a contract dispute over AI guardrails. Mythos, announced on April 7, is billed as the firm’s most capable system for coding and autonomous agent tasks, raising alarms about its potential to uncover and exploit cybersecurity flaws. A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s supply‑chain risk designation, while a separate court issued a contrary ruling. Co‑founder Jack Clark emphasized Anthropic’s commitment to national‑security collaboration despite the dispute.
Why a Temporary Phone Number for Verification Matters in Modern Online Business
Modern online businesses increasingly rely on SMS verification to secure access to tools, marketplaces, and payment systems. Because many of these checks are one‑time, using a personal or permanent business number creates friction and privacy concerns. Temporary phone numbers provide...
Citi Arms Wealth Advisors With 4 AI Tools to Cut Busywork
Citi has introduced four AI-powered tools across its wealth division to streamline data handling and advisory workflow. Portfolio Intelligence, a client‑facing platform, aggregates positions, performance metrics and market insights and is live for North American private‑bank clients, with a global...
ŌURA and Soaak: Supporting Readiness in High-Stakes Environments
Oura has deepened its defense collaborations by pairing its Ring biometric platform with Soaak Technologies’ sound‑based wellness solutions. The partnership lets pilots, airlift crews, and other high‑stress personnel track sleep, heart‑rate variability and resting heart rate, then receive passive audio...
OpenAI's Leaked Memo Says New "Spud" Model Will Make All Its Products "Significantly Better"
OpenAI’s leaked internal memo reveals a new model codenamed “Spud” that aims to boost reasoning, intent understanding, and production reliability across its suite of products. The company is rolling out an enterprise‑focused agent platform called Frontier and a deployment engine,...
Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait
Star Labs has finally released a Coreboot firmware image for its AMD Ryzen 5000‑based StarBook MK VI laptop, ending a three‑year wait that began when early buyers received an AMI BIOS instead of the promised open‑source option. The firmware was upstreamed to...
Bring Back Wonder: Why Artemis II Still Matters
Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed flight beyond low‑Earth orbit, is more than a technical rehearsal. While it will validate Orion’s life‑support and propulsion systems for a future lunar landing, the mission also seeks to rekindle the public’s sense of awe that...
AI Agent Trends Shaping Data-Driven Businesses
Artificial intelligence agents are evolving business intelligence from static dashboards to proactive decision‑support systems. By monitoring data streams, detecting anomalies, and triggering actions, they compress the gap between insight and execution. The technology also unifies disparate data sources in real...
Stop Killing Games Backs California Bill Supporting Clearer End-of-Life Rules for Online Games
California’s Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921) would force live‑service publishers to notify players 60 days before server shutdowns and either provide offline patches or issue full refunds. The bill, effective for titles released after Jan 1 2027, also requires clear in‑game and...
Photon Design’s Laser Design Course Now Part of Cardiff’s Physics Curriculum
Photon Design Ltd has partnered with Cardiff University to embed a two‑day laser design course into the university’s physics curriculum. The program guides students from basic laser theory to hands‑on creation of manufacturable designs using Photon Design’s FIMMPROP and PICWave...
Bain & Co Vulnerability Exposed by Hacker a Month After McKinsey
A hacker publicly exposed internal Bain & Company documents, including client identifiers and proprietary methodologies, just weeks after a similar breach at rival McKinsey. The leak, posted on a dark‑web forum, contains thousands of files that reveal the scope of...
Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy, often credited with coining the term “AI safety,” warns that unchecked artificial‑intelligence development could lead to human extinction. He argues that super‑intelligent systems will pursue goals indifferent to humanity, and current training methods leave their behavior unpredictable. Recent...
The Third Possibility: Our Daemons, Synthetic Entities, and Contractual Capture
The essay introduces a "third possibility" that reframes entities—daemons, spirits, and synthetic intelligences—as the phenomenological signature of field‑level homeostatic counter‑regulation triggered when autonomous agents exceed a system’s tolerance. It argues that AI does not create a new supernatural force but...
Robinhood’s “Free” Trades Generate $4.5B Revenue
Day 3 of 30: How $HOOD Robinhood actually makes money Spoiler: "free trading" was never free... $4.5B in revenue in 2025. Up 52% Here's who's actually paying 🧵
Local AI: Agentic Failure Modes & How To Encourage Them
The post argues that traditional marketing metrics (opens, likes) are insufficient for AI‑driven content agents. It highlights Cici’s LinkedIn experiment, where modest engagement generated $1,600 in course sales, and a prior post that earned $8,185 despite poor social metrics. The...
DeepSeqAI Trains on Function to Future‑proof Biologics
Most AI protein tools are trained on structure. DeepSeqAI trains on function. They're running billions of experimental protein-protein interactions through their platform to map biologics against viruses, immune receptors, and the entire human proteome. The goal: candidates that hold up against...
Advancing Fully Walkaway Automation in Genomics Workflows
SPT Labtech and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s GeneCore facility in Heidelberg have partnered to install the firefly®+ all‑in‑one liquid‑handling platform, aiming to deliver fully walkaway automated genomics workflows. The system combines pipetting, dispensing, incubation and shaking, and will run...
UK Reliance on US Big Tech Companies Is ‘National Security Risk’, Claims Report
A report by the Open Rights Group warns that the UK’s reliance on a handful of US‑based big‑tech firms for data centres, cloud services and digital infrastructure creates a national‑security risk. Strained UK‑US relations could trigger sanctions that disrupt critical...
Designing AI-Assisted Integration Pipelines for Enterprise SaaS
AI‑assisted integration pipelines are emerging as a solution for connecting enterprise SaaS platforms such as Workday to downstream systems. By automating schema alignment through rule‑based logic, machine‑learning models, and large language models, these pipelines dramatically reduce manual mapping and maintenance....
Commercial UAV Expo Announces Opening Keynote: The View From the Field
Commercial UAV Expo announced its Opening Keynote for September 1, 2026, titled “The View From the Field.” The session will showcase findings from the upcoming State of the Industry Survey 2026, conducted by Commercial UAV News and Pilot Institute. Matt Collins...
Vivatides Therapeutics Raises $54M for RNA Expansion
Vivatides Therapeutics announced a $54 million Series A round, led by Qiming Venture Partners and backed by several other investors. The funding will accelerate its proprietary extrahepatic delivery platform, designed to transport RNA molecules such as siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides beyond the...
How Zoho Is Rethinking AI Risk, Context, and Control in 2026
Zoho reported 16 billion AI API calls in the first half of 2025, a 50% year‑over‑year rise, as it expands its Zia large‑language model across the Zoho One suite. The company’s Managing Director, Chandrashekar Lalapet Srinivas Prasanna (LSP), outlined three 2026...
Loyal Raises $100 Million: Dog Longevity Drugs Targeting IGF-1 and PPAR Pathways
Loyal, a veterinary biotech firm, announced a $100 million financing round to advance its canine longevity platform. The company targets the IGF‑1 and PPAR pathways to develop drugs that extend the lifespan of senior and large‑breed dogs. It has secured conditional...
Researchers Propose Agentic Risk Standard For AI Agent Transactions
Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Columbia University, t54 Labs, and Virtuals Protocol introduced the Agentic Risk Standard (ARS), a financial‑risk‑management framework for autonomous AI agents that handle payments or assets. ARS adds escrow, underwriting, and collateral mechanisms to ensure...
Cloudcomputing Targets 1.5M Identities in Spain and Finalizes Innovate IT Acquisition
Cloudcomputing, the Portuguese IAM specialist owned by Allurity, announced a push to manage over 1.5 million digital identities in Spain by 2027, backed by a 10% revenue jump in Q1 2026 versus the prior full year. At the same time, it completed...
NAB Show: Bridge Technologies To Highlight VB440 Probe Integration with NEP
Bridge Technologies announced that its VB440 production probe will be available as a software‑defined application on NEP Group’s new NEP Platform during the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The integration lets broadcasters launch VB440’s full suite of video scopes,...
AI‑crafted Briefs Look Flawless; Handmade Ones Signal Authenticity
Using AI to make extremely polished brief with no typos and AI assisted legal argument citing cases you didn’t read. -weak -cowering -privileged -ineffectual -soft-penised Filing unpolished brief with argument you though of yourself and case law I actually read, with a typo in...
Solar-Powered Satellites Enable Space‑Based AI Compute
Orbital outlines its vision for space-based AI infrastructure, using solar-powered satellites to overcome energy and cooling limits and scale compute beyond Earth’s grid. https://t.co/v0QjYh9BQC
Magnetic Fields From Earphones and Mobile Phones 'Suck' Airborne Magnetic Particles Into the Brain, Impairing Cognition and Potentially Contributing to...
A Chinese Academy of Sciences team published in ACS Nano that static magnetic fields from everyday earphones and smartphones dramatically increase brain accumulation of airborne magnetite nanoparticles in mice. The combined exposure amplified nanoparticle uptake by roughly five times and caused...
Bose QuietComfort Headphones Still $199 on Amazon
Grab the Bose QuietComfort Headphones for $199 at Amazon right now — the same price we saw during Black Friday. https://t.co/pm8IU6p9ot
Hiring Freezes Risk Massive Experience Gaps Despite AI Hype
Your AI talent planning algorithm is common sense https://t.co/388dvPCeTb Your talent pool is running dry as you freeze hiring, cut workers and worship at the altar of agentic AI utopia. If not careful, enterprises are going to find themselves in...
Fake Linux Leader Using Slack to Con Devs Into Giving up Their Secrets
In early April, a threat actor impersonated a Linux Foundation leader on Slack and lured open‑source developers from the TODO and CNCF projects to a spoofed Google Sites page. The page mimicked a Google Workspace sign‑in flow, prompting users to...
Mock AGI Debate Ends With Victory
This was an exceptionally fun mock debate with @danielnewmanUV on AGI. Like all of our debates I win.
Artemis II Post‑Flight Press Conference
The Artemis II post-flight press conf is this Thursday, Apr 16, at 2:30 pm ET. https://t.co/53UepeaDOb Watch on YouTube.
The Apple Watch Series 11 Has Returned to Best-Ever Price
Apple has slashed the price of its Watch Series 11, offering the 42mm GPS model for $299 and the 46mm version for $329—a $100 discount across major retailers. The latest iteration adds a brighter OLED display, the longest battery life...
California Bill Threatens EV Charging in Affordable Housing
California bill would limit EV-charging access in affordable housing #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/iLyl7eW3Lw
AI Avatar NoireSTEMinist Empowers STEM Education
Noire AI Avatar NoireSTEMinist #Engineering #Professor Dr. Carlotta A. Berry teaches #STEM and #Robot #Teacher #Educator https://t.co/tmcJHcvTYc
Rafay Achieves CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance for v1.35 | Rafay
Rafay's Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) has earned CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance for version 1.35, the newest industry standard for running AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes. The certification proves MKS meets mandatory requirements across accelerator management, gang scheduling, GPU‑aware autoscaling, deep observability and...
Kroger's Robot Grocery Delivery Experiment Fell Short
Kroger tried to build the future of grocery delivery with robots. It didn't work. https://t.co/kd6UzWX8in #robots #futureofwork
Turn Hand‑Drawn Sketches Into Functional Apps Instantly
Got a doodle for your next project laying around? Turn it into working software using @GoogleAIStudio and Nano Banana. Watch us vibe code a weather-responsive outfit selector app from a single, hand-drawn sketch: https://t.co/PT4XOeniu3
A Practical Guide to Fiber Optic Equipment and Its Uses
Fiber optic networks underpin modern data, video, and mission‑critical communications, making a reliable toolkit essential for technicians. The guide breaks down equipment by lifecycle stage—from cable jacket strippers and precision cleavers for preparation, to core‑alignment fusion splicers that deliver sub‑0.05 dB...
AI‑Powered T‑Rex 2.0 Redefines Robotic Mobility
Meet T-Rex 2.0: Agilex’s #AI-Powered Jumping #Robot Takes Mobility to the Next Level by @spaceandtech_ #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/pnF4Q2LH46
SaaS without Multi‑agent Integration Will Be Bypassed
RT SaaS that can't plug into multi-agent workflows or expose an MCP server is already being routed around by your future architecture. #AI #SaaS @Star_CIO https://t.co/QCJX9x5Zwh
New App Think2Switch Lets Users Control Devices Using Their Thoughts
Calgary‑based Possibility Neurotechnologies launched Think2Switch, an app that lets users operate smartphones and IoT devices using brainwave signals captured by consumer‑grade EEG headsets. The service, built on research from the University of Calgary’s BCI4Kids program, aims to improve digital accessibility...
Seeing AI as a Single Issue Invites Flawed Policies
The trend of treating all of AI as One Big Thing that always includes data centers & job changes & education changes & power & accelerating science & misinformation & national security & corporate control & healthcare is going to...
Beyond Engaged vs Unengaged: 6 Overlooked E‑com Segments
Most ecom brands segment by "engaged vs unengaged" and stop there. Here are 6 segments that most brands skip: https://t.co/SQEJtS1okC
Google Simplifies Analytics and Ads Consent Rules
Google is overhauling how consent signals flow between Google Analytics and Google Ads, effective June 15. The new model drops the reliance on Google Signals and other Analytics settings, using only the `ad_storage` consent flag for Ads data collection. This...
Create Lesson Slide Decks Fast with Gemini
📋 Need a slide deck for your next lesson? 🚀 Gemini can help you put one together faster than you think. 📖 Step-by-step guide on the blog now. https://t.co/ItAW6Egcmr
AI-Driven Targeting Marks the Dawn of Modern Warfare
“AI tools were used to synthesize intelligence, help prioritize targets, and build strike packages. The battle space is changing, but the age of AI warfare is already here.” 👀 - good use cases of non-generative AI & generative AI together https://t.co/ecYK9kN3F3
AI Becomes Operational: Must‑Attend Board Update Event
I'm attending AI Becomes Operational | The Board Quarterly Update. Join me on April 16. >> This is a must attend event - listening to @EKolsky and @Rwang0 is alwas ays an eye opener. https://t.co/QY0boEvUNC