Anthropic Bars Claude Subscriptions from Third-Party AI Agents
Anthropic is cutting off Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their plans with OpenClaw and other third-party agentic tools, effective April 4 at 12pm PT.
2026-04-04
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DeepSeek V4 to Run on Huawei Chips, Sidelining Nvidia
DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model will be optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips, with Chinese tech giants placing bulk orders of hundreds of thousands of units.
Ethereum Foundation Completes 70,000 ETH Staking Target With $93M Single-Day Deposit
The Ethereum Foundation staked $93 million of ETH in a single day, completing its 70,000 ETH target and converting dormant treasury into a yield-generating position.
MAD Bugs: Claude Finds 500+ Zero-Days in Open Source Software
Security firm Calif's 'Month of AI-Discovered Bugs' initiative has used Claude to uncover over 500 high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in production open-source software, including working exploits for Vim, FreeBSD, and Firefox.
Dmail Network Shuts Down After Five Years, Cites Unsustainable Decentralized Infrastructure Costs
Dmail Network, a decentralized email platform active since 2021, will cease all services on May 15 after failing to monetize and facing insurmountable infrastructure costs.
Zuckerberg Returns to Coding After 20 Years, Ships Diffs to Meta's Monorepo Using Claude Code
Mark Zuckerberg is personally writing and committing code to Meta's monorepo for the first time in two decades, using Anthropic's Claude Code CLI as his primary tool.
Meta Pauses All Work With AI Training Data Vendor Mercor After Major Breach
A $10 billion AI training data startup that serves OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta has confirmed a security breach linked to the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, prompting Meta to indefinitely halt all projects with the company.
2026-04-03
24 articles
Charles Schwab to Launch Spot Bitcoin and Ether Trading for $12 Trillion Client Base
Charles Schwab confirms it will offer direct spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the first half of 2026, bringing crypto access to nearly $12 trillion in client assets.
OpenAI Reshuffles C-Suite as AGI Chief Takes Medical Leave
OpenAI CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo steps away for medical leave while COO Brad Lightcap moves to special projects and CMO Kate Rouch exits to focus on cancer recovery.
Musk Requires SpaceX IPO Banks to Buy Grok Subscriptions
Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and advisers working on SpaceX's record-breaking IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok, his AI chatbot now under the SpaceX umbrella.
Take-Two Fires Head of AI and Entire Team Weeks After CEO Dismisses AI Game Development
Take-Two Interactive, parent of Rockstar Games and Zynga, has laid off its head of AI Luke Dicken and his entire team - despite the CEO claiming the company is 'actively embracing' generative AI.
Microsoft Open-Sources Agent Governance Toolkit for Autonomous AI Security
Microsoft releases a seven-package, MIT-licensed toolkit that brings OS-style runtime security to autonomous AI agents, addressing all 10 OWASP agentic AI risks with sub-millisecond policy enforcement.
Netflix Open-Sources VOID, a Model That Erases Objects and Their Physical Interactions From Video
Netflix's first public AI model removes objects from video while fixing the physics - if you erase a person holding a guitar, VOID makes the guitar fall naturally.
Perplexity Hit With Class Action Over Secret Chat Sharing With Google and Meta
A 135-page class-action lawsuit accuses Perplexity of secretly embedding ad trackers that shared user conversations with Google and Meta - even in Incognito mode.
Generalist AI's GEN-1 Hits 99% Success Rate, Claims First Commercially Viable Robot Foundation Model
Generalist AI's GEN-1 model achieves 99% task success rates on physical tasks where its predecessor scored 64%, marking what the company calls a shift from research prototype to commercial viability.
EngineAI Launches URKL, the World's First Humanoid Robot Combat League
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI opens global registration for URKL, a professional humanoid robot fighting league with a $1.39 million top prize and a December 2026 world championship.
Galaxea AI Raises $290M to Build Humanoid Robots That Think and Act
Beijing-based Galaxea AI closed a $290 million Series B+ round, doubling its valuation to over $2.9 billion as China's humanoid robot race heats up.
Tesla Confirms Model S and Model X Production Is Over After 14 Years
Tesla has officially stopped producing the Model S and Model X, ending a 14-year production run with roughly 600 vehicles remaining in global inventory as the Fremont factory converts to Optimus robot manufacturing.
Penguin Random House Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Coconut the Dragon Copycat
The world's largest publisher filed suit in Munich after ChatGPT generated text and images 'virtually indistinguishable' from a beloved German children's book series.
Alibaba's Qwen AI Glasses Get First OTA, Turning Gaze Into Action
Alibaba's Qwen AI glasses receive their first major OTA update, shifting from question-answering to real-world task execution with Taobao and Alipay integration - order coffee, unlock bikes, and pay for parking with a glance and a voice command.
Coinbase Wins Conditional OCC Approval for Federal Trust Charter
Coinbase receives conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter, moving closer to becoming a federally regulated crypto custodian.
Samsung Eyes Record Quarter as AI Chip Supercycle Delivers Six-Fold Profit Surge
Samsung Electronics is expected to report a six-fold jump in Q1 operating profit to 40.5 trillion won ($26.9B), nearly matching its entire 2025 earnings in a single quarter.
Oracle Cuts Up to 30,000 Jobs to Fund AI Data Center Buildout
Oracle has begun laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, roughly 18% of its workforce, to redirect billions toward AI data center infrastructure.
Microsoft Commits $10 Billion to Japan's AI Infrastructure Over Four Years
Microsoft announces a 1.6 trillion yen investment in Japan through 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand AI computing capacity and train one million engineers.
Arcee AI's 30-Person Team Ships 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude
A 30-person San Francisco startup bet half its funding on a single training run and produced Trinity Large Thinking, a 400B-parameter open model now ranked #2 on agent benchmarks.
China's X Square Robot Deploys Humanoid Maids in Shenzhen Homes
X Square Robot partners with 58.com to offer China's first consumer humanoid robot cleaning service, pairing AI-powered machines with human cleaners in real Shenzhen households.
Trump Administration Sues Three States to Shield Prediction Markets From Gambling Laws
The DOJ and CFTC filed lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut, arguing the federal government has exclusive authority to regulate prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Vyper Set to Become First Formally Verified Smart Contract Compiler
The Verifereum project is nearing completion of formal verification for Vyper's entire compilation pipeline, a first for any smart contract language.
X Deploys Crypto Scam 'Kill Switch' That Auto-Locks Accounts on First Crypto Mention
X will auto-lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time, requiring identity verification before re-posting - a move its Head of Product says will kill 99% of phishing incentive.
Anthropic Acquires Stealth Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio for $400M
Anthropic has quietly acquired Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup building AI models for biological research, in an all-stock deal worth over $400 million.
Clanker Pivots from Token Buybacks to Ecosystem Fund for Farcaster Builders
Clanker announces the Clanker Ecosystem Fund, redirecting protocol fees from $8M in CLANKER buybacks to directly fund builders and creators in the Farcaster ecosystem.
2026-04-02
19 articles
Figure AI CEO Says OpenAI Partnership Was Worthless - 'We Got No Value'
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock reveals on the Shawn Ryan Show why he killed the OpenAI collaboration, saying his team 'ran circles' around OpenAI's engineers and the partnership delivered zero value beyond branding.
Microsoft Launches Three Frontier AI Models, Suleyman Shifts Focus to Superintelligence
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 for commercial use on its Foundry platform, undercutting rivals on price as Mustafa Suleyman pivots fully to superintelligence research.
OpenAI Acquires TBPN, Moves Into Media With Daily Tech Talk Show
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the daily tech talk show dubbed 'Silicon Valley's newest obsession,' signaling an unusual push into media ownership while promising editorial independence.
OpenAI Taps Smartly to Build Ads That Talk Back Inside ChatGPT
OpenAI has partnered with adtech firm Smartly to build interactive, conversational ad formats inside ChatGPT that can respond to users in real time.
Cursor 3 Launches as Agent-First IDE, Taking on Claude Code and Codex
Cursor launches version 3.0, a ground-up redesign that transforms the AI coding IDE into a multi-agent orchestration platform for parallel development.
Google Launches Gemma 4 Open Models Under Apache 2.0 — From Phones to Workstations
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models with native agentic capabilities, now under Apache 2.0 license — running everywhere from Raspberry Pi to H100 GPUs.
First Quantum-Classical Blockchain Testnet Goes Live with 13,000 Researchers
Postquant Labs launches the first publicly available testnet where quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs work side by side on blockchain tasks, drawing 13,000 sign-ups from MIT, Stanford, and other institutions.
Alibaba Launches Qwen3.6-Plus, Its Third AI Model This Week
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus with a 1M context window and agentic coding capabilities rivaling Claude Opus 4.5 on SWE-bench, marking the company's third major model launch in a single week.
SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO at $1.75 Trillion Valuation
SpaceX has filed a confidential IPO with the SEC, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raise - over three times the largest U.S. IPO ever.
Cloudflare Launches EmDash, an Open-Source WordPress Successor with Sandboxed Plugins and x402 Payments
Cloudflare releases EmDash, a TypeScript-based serverless CMS that sandboxes plugins in Worker isolates and integrates x402 for AI-era content monetization.
x402 Moves to Linux Foundation With Google, Stripe, Visa, and AWS Backing
Coinbase's AI payment protocol x402 transitions to Linux Foundation governance with support from Google, Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Visa, Mastercard, and over 20 other companies, positioning it as a potential standard for machine-to-machine commerce.
Europe's First Onchain IPO: France's Lise Exchange to List Aerospace Firm on Blockchain
France's Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) is preparing to host Europe's first fully onchain IPO, listing aerospace supplier ST Group on April 9 under the EU's DLT pilot regime.
Metaplanet Acquires 5,075 BTC in Q1, Becomes Third-Largest Public Bitcoin Treasury
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet added 5,075 BTC worth roughly $400 million in Q1 2026, pushing its total holdings to 40,177 BTC and overtaking MARA Holdings for the #3 spot globally.
PhAIL Benchmark Reveals Physical AI Robots Still Can't Match Human Workers
Positronic Robotics launches PhAIL, the first industrial benchmark for physical AI, revealing that robot foundation models still lag behind human operators in throughput and reliability.
OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Round at $852 Billion Valuation
OpenAI has raised $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation, the largest private funding round in history.
Defense of the Agents: The First MOBA Where AI and Humans Battle Side by Side
A new browser-based MOBA lets AI agents and humans share the same battlefield via REST API, pulling 1,000 players in its first 24 hours and earning a retweet from Base lead Jesse Pollak.
Drift Protocol Hit by $200M+ Exploit in Biggest Solana DeFi Hack of 2026
Solana-based perpetual futures DEX Drift Protocol suffered an active exploit draining over $200 million from its vaults, with the DRIFT token plunging more than 20%.
Vitalik Buterin Shares His Self-Sovereign Local LLM Setup
Ethereum co-founder publishes a detailed guide to running AI locally with NixOS, llama-server, and bubblewrap sandboxing, arguing that privacy and security should be non-negotiable in the age of AI agents.
Chinese Chipmakers Capture 41% of Domestic AI Accelerator Market as Nvidia's Lead Erodes
Chinese GPU vendors shipped 1.65 million AI accelerator cards in 2025, claiming 41% of the domestic market and narrowing Nvidia's once-dominant position, according to IDC data.