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Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (x.com)
2026-4-4

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones 'Hard Down' In Bahrain and Dubai (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Amazon Iran Dubai

Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (thehill.com)
2026-4-4

Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (www.ft.com)
2026-4-4 Asset

Microsoft To Invest $10 Billion In Japan For AI, Cyber Defense Expansion (slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Japan Microsoft AI

Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (www.wired.com)
2026-4-4

Netflix Must Refund Customers For Years of Price Hikes, Italian Court Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 Italy Netflix

Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-4 AI chatbot

LinkedIn secretely scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 LinkedIn Chrome

Fan Fiction Website AO3 Exits Beta After 17 Years (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period” (www.bigtechnology.com)
2026-4-4 Amazon Iran Dubai

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (sources.news)
2026-4-4

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-4

Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-4 AI

College Student, Cat Meme Helped Crack Massive Botnet Case (it.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-4 IPO SpaceX

Hims & Hers warns of data breach after Zendesk support ticket breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Penalties Stack Up As AI Spreads Through the Legal System (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4 AI

Die Linke German political party confirms data stolen by Qilin ransomware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 Germany

Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-4 China AI

Tower Semiconductor's market cap tops $20B, four years after a near-sale to Intel for $5B; shares are up ~60% over the past month and ~525% over the past year (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-4 Intel

Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-4 China

Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-4

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-4-4 Israel IPO Startup AI

A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-4-4 China Ban

This refurbished $1,299 MacBook Air is only $909.99 right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4 MacBook

Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-4

Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems (restofworld.org)
2026-4-4 Startup AI

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