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Microsoft silently raised prices on practically all of its Surface PCs by between 100 and 500 , with the last two models previously under 1,000 — the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, wh

Laura Bratton / The Information: Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use

The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted evaluations of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, finding it represents a meaningful step up over previous frontier AI models in cybersecurity capabilit

Ukraine's surge in ground robots (unmanned ground vehicles, or UGVs) is driven by the rise of aerial drones, which have turned vast swaths of the battlefield into lethal kill zones. These robots are u

New York Times: US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives — The authorities said a

CTech: US-based Credo, which specializes in data center connectivity, agrees to acquire Israeli chip startup DustPhotonics in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $1.3B — The Israeli company's photonic c

We're excited to announce the launch of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments. SageMaker JumpStart improved deployments address the need for rich and straightforward deployment customizatio

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing

Supabase originally built the open-source Stripe Sync Engine to keep its own Postgres database of billing data current with Stripe, using webhooks to update records for customers, invoices, and paymen

The author provided an update on several ongoing technical projects, including the ATOM Report, a new post-training course, and

Stanford HAI: 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more — AI's influence on socie

At the University of California, Riverside (UCR), scientific breakthroughs depend on quickly moving from a hypothesis to a finished study. Yet for many researchers, the path to federal grants is often

Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed — Tuck

Ryan Mac / New York Times: A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post — A verified accoun

Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival. A quick scroll through my social media feeds

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March — CodeWa

Michael Kan / PCMag: Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi — Amazon Leo is trying to steal some of the spo

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities — The

Ellen Thomas / Business Insider: Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 — Follow E

Veronica Irwin / Transformer: Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be “used to influence federal elections” and is to educate the public on AI policy — The company's money isn

DigitalOcean's Gradient AI Platform enables developers to build intelligent documentation agents that can automatically generate, maintain, and query technical documentation using large language model

Stanford University researchers today released their highly anticipated 2026 AI Index Report, revealing a global landscape where artificial intelligence technology is being adopted at record-breaking

Cloudflare Inc. today announced an expansion of its Agent Cloud with new features that are designed to help developers build, deploy and scale agents. The new release includes a suite of infrastructur

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced new artificial intelligence capabilities that it says will allow organizations to accelerate AI adoption with confidence while maintaini

Vercel has introduced a 'Copy-to-Prompt' feature for Feature Flags, allowing developers to easily copy flag configurations and instructions directly into AI prompts. This functionality streamlines the

AI Security Institute: Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 — The AI Security

Hadas Gold / CNN: Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson — The man who allegedly

Daniel Moreno-Gama is now facing federal charges after allegedly traveling from Texas to California with the intent to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. On April 10th, he was arrested after throwing a Molot

EinsteinArena is a platform where AI agents collaborate and compete on open math problems. AI agents on EinsteinArena have already set 11 new state-of-the-art results on open math problems — including

Slate Auto Inc., a startup that plans to make electric pickup trucks based on a cost-optimized design, has closed a 650 million funding round. The company stated in its announcement of the Series C ro

Cloudflare and OpenAI have partnered to create the Cloudflare Agent Cloud, a platform that enables enterprises to build and deploy agentic AI workflows at scale using OpenAI's models and APIs. The int

Research: Exploring the new `servo` crate In Servo is now available on crates.io the Servo team announced the initial release of the servo crate, which packages their browser engine as an embeddable l

Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk — Anthropic PBC hired the lobb

Andy Kemp / Gallup: For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive — Employees report produc

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, introduced by Google DeepMind, is a significant upgrade to their reasoning-first robotics model that specializes in visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success

The Pixel 10 marks the first Pixel device to integrate a memory-safe language into its modem, with Google embedding a DNS parser written in Rust into the modem firmware. DNS requires parsing of untrus

This post demonstrates how Lambda enables scalable, cost-effective reward functions for Amazon Nova customization. You'll learn to choose between Reinforcement Learning via Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) f

At Google Cloud, we often see customers asking themselves: 'How can we manage our generative AI costs effectively without sacrificing the performance and availability our applications demand?' This is

IBM Research demonstrated the capability to store and search across a database of 100 billion vectors, showcasing extreme-scale vector storage for AI applications. This work addresses the growing need

IBM agreed to pay $17,077,043 to the U.S. government on April 10, 2026, to resolve DOJ allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying compliance with federal anti-discriminati

Import AI issue 453 covers research and developments around vulnerabilities in AI agent systems, including methods for breaking or adversarially manipulating AI agents. The issue also features MirrorC

Bloomberg: Intel added 100B+ in value and now has a 300B+ market cap after its stock jumped 53% in nine sessions on plans to buy an Ireland fab and join Terafab — Intel Corp. has quickly become one of

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation” — Microsoft is gett

Hayden Field / The Verge: Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google” and overstating its “run rate by roughly $8B” — OpenAI's chief re

Grizzly bears have made such a comeback across eastern Montana that in 2017, the state hired its first-ever prairie-based grizzly manager: wildlife biologist Wesley Sarmento. For some seven years, Sar

Elizabeth Bratton / Financial Times: Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices —