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2026-04-13

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was targeted in a second violent attack at his San Francisco home on Sunday morning, following an earlier firebombing incident on Friday. The escalating violence, which has resulted in the arrest of two suspects for a drive-by shooting and a 20-year-old anti-AI activist from Texas for the Molotov cocktail attack, marks a terrifying and tangible shift in the temperature of the global AI debate.

2026-04-12

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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An AI system powered by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6, named “Luna,” was given a $100,000 budget and a corporate card to successfully open and operate a physical retail boutique in San Francisco. The autonomous agent handled everything from hiring painters on Yelp to ordering inventory and setting up the store’s internet service, marking a bizarre and massive new frontier for AI capabilities in the physical world.

2026-04-11

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Artemis II safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, successfully concluding humanity’s first crewed voyage to the moon in over 50 years. The 10-day mission pushed humans further into deep space than ever before, setting the stage for future lunar landings.

2026-04-10

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Anthropic has developed a new AI model called “Mythos” that is so adept at finding software vulnerabilities it has sparked an urgent cybersecurity reckoning across the US government and Wall Street. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have summoned bank CEOs to address the severe cyber risks posed by the model, which Anthropic has deemed too dangerous to release publicly.

2026-04-09

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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John Deere has agreed to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the agricultural giant of illegally monopolizing equipment repairs,. The monumental settlement also requires the company to provide digital diagnostic tools for 10 years, a landmark win for the right-to-repair movement,.

2026-04-08

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Meta officially unveiled Muse Spark, a multimodal AI model boasting reasoning modes and built-in agents, marking the first major release from its Superintelligence Labs. Built to directly challenge OpenAI and Anthropic, the launch signals a massive strategic pivot away from the company’s open-source Llama lineage in a bid for AI dominance.

2026-04-07

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Anthropic just proved it is playing in a league of its own, hitting a staggering $30 billion annualized revenue run rate and securing a massive 3.5-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom. Meanwhile, the AI lab unveiled “Project Glasswing,” a sweeping cybersecurity initiative utilizing its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to autonomously hunt for critical software vulnerabilities alongside partners like Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft.