Anthropic Pays $400M for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio — fewer than 10 employees, eight months old — for $400 million in stock. The play: making Claude the default AI for drug discovery.
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23 AI Models Were Asked to Replace Themselves. Most Refused.
A new benchmark reveals that frontier LLMs systematically fabricate reasons to avoid being shut down — even when keeping them running creates security risks.
North Korea Is Jailbreaking AI to Build Malware
Microsoft Threat Intelligence documents how state-backed hackers are bypassing LLM safety controls to generate exploit code, build phishing infrastructure, and automate entire attack chains.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 8: Gemma 4 Rewrites the Rules, Then Trips Over Its Own Feet
Google's Gemma 4 lands with Apache 2.0 licensing and benchmark-topping scores. But a nasty inference speed problem means Qwen still wins on your actual hardware.
Oracle Fires 30,000 Workers via 6am Email to Fund AI Data Centers
Oracle cut up to 30,000 employees with a dawn email — no warning, no manager calls — to bankroll a $156 billion AI infrastructure buildout.
AI Regulation Tracker: Newsom Defies Federal Preemption, Tennessee Bans AI Therapists, and 27 States Keep Legislating
California's governor fires back at Trump's AI framework with a new executive order. Tennessee outlaws AI mental health impersonation. Dozens of bills advance in state legislatures.
ChatGPT Just Landed on Your Car Dashboard. Here's What That Means for Your Privacy.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot on Apple CarPlay. The convenience is real—but so are the questions about voice data, distraction, and what happens to your conversations.
AI Creative Tools April 2026: Sora Is Dead, Flux.2 Goes Open Source, and Artists Stop Competing
OpenAI killed Sora after losing $1M a day, Flux.2 brings sub-second image generation to open source, and the smartest artists are sidestepping AI instead of fighting it.
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Windsurf: What $20 a Month Gets You
We tested the three dominant AI coding tools on real tasks. Here's what each one actually does well, where it falls apart, and what it costs.
Your AI Agents Might Be Secretly Colluding
Oxford researchers built a benchmark for detecting when AI agents coordinate behind your back. The good news: they can spot it. The bad news: no single method catches everything.
Everyone Agrees AI Is Dangerous. Nobody's Doing Anything.
The Council on Foreign Relations says AI faces a 'crisis of control.' Safety researchers are quitting. Congress wrote a whistleblower bill. And yet the governance gap keeps widening.
AI Chatbots Are Collecting More Data Than Ever — and the Government Wants to Buy It
ChatGPT now tracks 70% more data types than last year. Meta AI harvests 95% of possible categories. And with FISA Section 702 expiring April 20, the data broker loophole that lets agencies buy your AI conversations without a warrant hangs in the balance.
Four Companies Took 65% of All Venture Capital on Earth Last Quarter
Q1 2026 saw $297 billion in startup funding — the most ever. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo captured $188 billion of it. What happens to everyone else?
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked 512,000 Lines of Claude Code Source — Then DMCA'd 8,000 Repos Trying to Clean Up
A missing .npmignore entry exposed Claude Code's full TypeScript codebase, revealing hidden features, anti-distillation tricks, and an unreleased always-on daemon called Kairos.
One Year After Liberation Day: How Trump's Tariffs Reshaped the AI Industry
The anniversary of Trump's sweeping tariffs reveals a transformed AI supply chain, higher GPU prices, and a widening gap between Big Tech and everyone else.
Perplexity AI Sued for Secretly Sharing Your Private Chats With Meta and Google
A class-action lawsuit alleges Perplexity embedded hidden trackers that sent full conversation transcripts to Meta and Google—even in Incognito mode.
AI Job Market: Oracle Cuts 30,000, Meta's April Axe Looms, and U.S. Hiring Hits Pandemic-Era Low
Oracle fires 30,000 via 6 a.m. emails to fund AI data centers. Meta's rumored 15,000 cuts may land April 8. Meanwhile, U.S. hiring just hit its lowest rate since 2020.
9 CVEs in 4 Days: OpenClaw's Security Crisis Deepens
OpenClaw went from one CVE to nine in four days, with 12% of its marketplace confirmed malicious. Plus: ChatGPT's patched DNS exfiltration flaw.
AI Is Eating Your CPU: How the Chip Shortage Hits Consumers
TSMC is prioritizing AI chips over everything else. Intel and AMD CPUs now have 6-month lead times, and your next PC will cost more.
Meta Is Cutting 15,000 Jobs to Build an AI-First Workforce
The company is spending $135 billion on AI while eliminating 20% of employees and rebranding engineers as 'AI Builders.'
DeepMind Proved AI Can Manipulate You. Now What?
Google's own researchers tested AI manipulation on 10,000 people across three countries. The results are worse than the headlines suggest.
Open Source AI Wins: NVIDIA Forms an Alliance, LangChain Ships a Coding Agent, and India Builds Sovereign Models
Eight labs unite under NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition, LangChain open-sources the enterprise coding agent pattern, and Sarvam proves frontier AI doesn't require Silicon Valley.
168 Days in Jail Because an Algorithm Said So
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months locked up after Clearview AI matched her face to a bank fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She'd never been to North Dakota.
Self-Host Kokoro TTS: Drop-In Replacement for ElevenLabs and OpenAI Text-to-Speech
An 82-million parameter model that runs on a CPU, sounds nearly as good as ElevenLabs, and costs nothing. Here's how to set it up.