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Anthropic says Opus 4.7 is “less broadly capable” than Claude Mythos Preview and that its “cyber capabilities are not as advanced” as those of Mythos Preview (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-17

Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level (www.anthropic.com)
2026-4-17

Most "AI SOCs" Are Just Faster Triage. That's Not Enough. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 AI

New ATHR vishing platform uses AI voice agents for automated attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-17

Roku says it is in 100M+ homes globally and its devices are used by “more than half of all US broadband households”; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16

Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt (www.macrumors.com)
2026-4-16 Apple

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-16 Google AI Pentagon

Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI unveiled its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200+ London staff (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-16 London

The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-16 Database

Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others (www.npr.org)
2026-4-16

Cisco says critical Webex Services flaw requires customer action (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16 Cisco

10 Genius Inventions Born from Total Desperation (listverse.com)
2026-4-16

A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (www.thewrap.com)
2026-4-16 Bitcoin AI

Data breach at edtech giant McGraw Hill affects 13.5 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16

US nationals behind DPRK IT worker 'laptop farm' sent to prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16

Microsoft: April Windows Server 2025 update may fail to install (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16 Microsoft

Get 3 years of Surfshark VPN for $67.20 with this coupon (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-16 VPN

Bullet Train Upgrade Brings 5G Windows, Noise-Cancelling Cabins To Japan (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-16 Japan 5G

Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Apple

Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Europe Spain

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-16 AI Iran

Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-4-16 AI

Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Alibaba AI

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-16 Android IOS YouTube

Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-16 Google IPO SpaceX

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-4-16 AI

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-16

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