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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.
OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead ‘special projects’
Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI
General AI
Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push
Deepseek v4 is expected to launch in the coming weeks and will run exclusively on Huawei chips. China's biggest tech companies have reportedly already ordered hundreds of thousands of units. Nvidia was shut out of early testing. The article Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push appeared first on The Decoder.
Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up
The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News
OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public image.
OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion software giant intends to compete directly with OpenAI, Google, and other frontier labs on model development, not just distribution. The trio of models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — are available immediately through Microsoft Foundry and a new MAI Playground. They span three of the most commercially valuable modalities in enterprise AI: converting speech to text, generating realistic human voice, and creating images. Together, they represent the opening salvo from Microsoft's superintelligence team, which Suleyman formed just six months ago to pursue what he calls "AI self-sufficiency." "I'm very excited that we've now got the first models out, which are the very best in the world for transcription," Suleyman
New Broadcom CFO From Alphabet May Shape Capital Allocation Outlook
Broadcom (NasdaqGS:AVGO) has named Amie Thuener as its next Chief Financial Officer. Thuener previously held senior finance roles at Alphabet. She will succeed long-time CFO Kirsten Spears, marking a material leadership change in Broadcom’s finance organization. Broadcom operates across semiconductor solutions and enterprise software, with a focus on areas such as networking, accelerators and AI infrastructure. The company has also expanded in infrastructure and application software,...
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Strengthens AI Strategy With New Glasses and Services
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the best blue-chip AI stocks to buy now. On March 31, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) introduced two new Ray-Ban prescription smart glasses, expanding its lineup of AI-powered wearables. Priced from $499 and available for pre-order in the U.S., the Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Meta Scriber Optics will […]
How AI and ‘experience creep’ are making it harder for new graduates to find jobs
Recent graduates going into tech face a double bind: fewer entry-level openings and employers demanding experience that’s nearly impossible to get.
A Look At Comcast (CMCSA) Valuation After New AI Edge Push And Cybersecurity Network Expansion
Fresh attention on Comcast (CMCSA) is being driven by its recent push into AI-powered edge computing with NVIDIA, new cybersecurity bundled plans for small businesses, and continued multi-state network expansions that are widening its high-speed internet reach. See our latest analysis for Comcast. Despite a stream of new AI partnerships, cybersecurity bundles, and multi-state network builds, Comcast’s recent share price performance has been weak, with a 30-day share price return of 9.93% and...
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[AINews] Gemma 4: The best small Multimodal Open Models, dramatically better than Gemma 3 in every way
A welcome update from Google!
OpenAI decides the best way to fight critical AI coverage is to own a newsroom
OpenAI has acquired tech talk show TBPN. The show will supposedly remain editorially independent but report to OpenAI's communications department. That's as contradictory as it sounds. So what's OpenAI really after? The article OpenAI decides the best way to fight critical AI coverage is to own a newsroom appeared first on The Decoder.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers
Google in November announced Project Suncatcher, with plans to launch prototype satellites to test AI hardware in 2027.
Netflix just released its first public AI model, because why not
Article URL: https://efficienist.com/netflix-just-release-its-first-public-ai-model-because-why-not/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625451 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Mercor, a $10B AI startup confirms major data breach
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/02/mercor-ai-startup-security-incident-10-billion/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624961 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra
Using OpenClaw with Claude AI is about to get a lot more expensive, thanks to Anthropic's new policy changes. Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will "no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw," according to an email sent to users on Friday evening. Instead, if users want to use OpenClaw with Claude, they'll have to use a "pay-as-you-go option" that will be billed separate from their Claude subscription. With OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger now employed by OpenAI, Anthropic may also be encouraging subscribers to use more of its own tools, like Claude Cowork, instead. Steinber … Read the full story at The Verge.
Daily AI News Roundup (Apr 3): OpenAI buys a talk show, Google drops Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, Claude Code source leaked, Axios npm compromised
Big moves OpenAI acquired TBPN, the founder-led tech/business talk show. Unusual media play — covered by TechCrunch, Ars Technica, and WSJ. Google released Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0. The license shift from their previous terms may matter more than the benchmarks. Direct shot at Chinese open-weights models. Microsoft unveiled three homegrown AI models for speech and image generation — clearly reducing dependence on OpenAI. Security Claude Code source code leaked, triggering enterprise security concerns. VentureBeat published a 5-action checklist for security teams. Axios npm package was trojanized in a supply-chain attack. If your team uses it (most do), worth checking immediately. Granola notes are viewable by anyone with a link by default. PSA if you use it. Product & research Google added Veo, Lyria, and directable AI avatars to Google Vids. Arcee launched Trinity-Large-Thinking — open source, U.S.-made, downloadable enterprise model. AI chatbots are now being use
Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — and that license change may matter more than benchmarks
For the past two years, enterprises evaluating open-weight models have faced an awkward trade-off. Google's Gemma line consistently delivered strong performance, but its custom license — with usage restrictions and terms Google could update at will — pushed many teams toward Mistral or Alibaba's Qwen instead. Legal review added friction. Compliance teams flagged edge cases. And capable as Gemma 3 was, "open" with asterisks isn't the same as open. Gemma 4 eliminates that friction entirely. Google DeepMind's newest open model family ships under a standard Apache 2.0 license — the same permissive terms used by Qwen, Mistral, Arcee, and most of the open-weight ecosystem. No custom clauses, no "Harmful Use" carve-outs that required legal interpretation, no restrictions on redistribution or commercial deployment. For enterprise teams that had been waiting for Google to play on the same licensing terms as the rest of the field, the wait is over. The timing is notable. As some Chinese AI lab
Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.
AI Crypto Predicts the Biggest Plays for April 2026
While the market continues to range, with US/Israel/Iran tensions keeping retail money away, we will look at what AI crypto predicts will be the best play for April 2026. To do so, we have consulted Google’s Gemini, X’s Grok, and the OpenAI-backed ChatGPT. The market is currently locked in a ...
Gemma 4: first LLM to 100% my multi lingual tool calling tests
I have been self hosting LLMs since before llama 3 was a thing and Gemma 4 is the first model that actually has a 100% success rate in my tool calling tests. My main use for LLMs is a custom built voice assistant powered by N8N with custom tools like websearch, custom MQTT tools etc in the backend. The big thing is my household is multi lingual we use English, German and Japanese. Based on the wake word used the context, prompt and tool descriptions change to said language. My set up has 68 GB of VRAM (double 3090 + 20GB 3080) and I mainly use moe models to minimize latency, I previously have been using everything from the 30B MOEs, Qwen Next, GPTOSS to GLM AIR and so far the only model which had a 100% success rate across all three languages in tool calling is Gemma4 26BA4B. submitted by /u/MaruluVR [link] [comments]
New Cursor 3 ditches the classic IDE layout for an "agent-first" interface built around parallel AI fleets
Version 3 of the AI coding tool Cursor introduces a completely redesigned interface built to move developers from manual code editing to running multiple AI agents in parallel. The article New Cursor 3 ditches the classic IDE layout for an "agent-first" interface built around parallel AI fleets appeared first on The Decoder.
Human Pose Estimation in Trampoline Gymnastics: Improving Performance Using a New Synthetic Dataset
arXiv:2604.01322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trampoline gymnastics involves extreme human poses and uncommon viewpoints, on which state-of-the art pose estimation models tend to under-perform. We demonstrate that this problem can be addressed by fine-tuning a pose estimation model on a dataset of synthetic trampoline poses (STP). STP is generated from motion capture recordings of trampoline routines. We develop a pipeline to fit noisy motion capture data to a parametric human model, then generate multiview realistic images. We use this data to fine-tune a ViTPose model, and test it on real multi-view trampoline images. The resulting model exhibits accuracy improvements in 2D which translates to improved 3D triangulation. In 2D, we obtain state-of-the-art results on such challenging data, bridging the performance gap between common and extreme poses. In 3D, we reduce the MPJPE by 12.5 mm with our best model, which represents an improvement of 19.6% compared to the pretrained ViTPose
Research
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
Business & Industry
At WMF a new edition of AI Global Summit, an international reference point on Artificial Intelligence
WMF 2026 – We Make Future, the largest event on digital innovation, artificial intelligence and technology, will take place from June 24 to 26 at BolognaFiere in Bologna, Italy. Among the key highlights is the AI Global Summit, the international benchmark event where companies, institutions and the research community participate to discuss the scenarios, applications and governance of artificial intelligence.