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Top 10 — News
- Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
- AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
- OpenAI made economic proposals — here’s what DC thinks of them Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politi…
- Conflicting Rulings Leave Anthropic in ‘Supply-Chain Risk’ Limbo A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military…
- [AINews] Meta Superintelligence Labs announces Muse Spark, first frontier model on their completely new stack a quiet day lets us reflect on MSL finally shipping!
- One in four quotes in AI chatbot responses comes from journalism, Muckrack study finds Where do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini get their information?
- I’ve been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue Article URL: https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
- Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager Article URL: https://thales.me/posts/why-i-built-snapstate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696760 Points: 6 # Comment…
- Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? I built this because I was interested in the data.
- Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answ…
AI tools & model updates
- Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations.
- From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed ‘too dangerous to release’ Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes.
- Anthropic’s Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos ( system card PDF ), today.
- openai/openai-node: v6.34.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.31.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: bedrock-sdk: v0.28.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.92.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.82.3-stable.patch.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- SageMaker HyperPod now supports gang scheduling for distributed training workloads Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports gang scheduling, which ensures all pods required for a distributed training job are…
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-core==0.3.84
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answ…
Musk won’t seek a “single dollar” in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion.
Meta touts strong benchmarks but admits "performance gaps" in agentic and coding systems.
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You .
Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials…
The LAPD said the breach affected “a digital storage system” belonging to the city’s Attorney's Office.
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.
Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politi…
This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.
The unprecedented proposal would give the Trump admin access to doctors' notes.
LinkedIn says claims fabricated by extension maker suspended for scraping data.
Motorola's budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
Any tanker passing must reveal its cargo so Iran can determine transit fee amount.
JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on "framerates of other Steam users."
Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts.
With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t alrea…
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and is blo…
An Avride autonomous vehicle near Austin hit the duck, facing backlash from the community.
Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-h…
Canva says the acquisitions add strengths in agentic AI, data infrastructure, marketing automation, and customer engagement.
Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to…
Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America still has a long and winding regulatory road before it can launch a commercial robotaxi service.
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social m…
Back, a long-time researcher and pioneer in cryptography, denies the allegation that he is the secretive creator of Bitcoin.
Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mob…
The maker of the popular open source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device…
I saw a lot of weird phones at Mobile World Congress last month: robot phones, cameras disguised as phones, phones for dogs.
I thought the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD in my gaming PC was pricey when I bought it for $173 in 2024, but now that same SSD costs $649, more…
The MacBook Neo is disrupting the laptop space and putting Apple into the conversation as a value option like it’s never been before.
Microsoft is losing another veteran executive.
A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military…
a quiet day lets us reflect on MSL finally shipping!
Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whethe…
The AI system, trained on real military data, is meant to give soldiers mission-critical information.
Where do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini get their information?
An analysis of 2.8 million Telegram messages in Italy and Spain documents how AI tools are fueling a monetized ecosystem built around non-c…
Article URL: https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
Article URL: https://thales.me/posts/why-i-built-snapstate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696760 Points: 6 # Comment…
I built this because I was interested in the data.
Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement Comments URL: https://news…
Article URL: https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695012 Points: 129 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694983 Points: 63 # C…
Article URL: http://oj-hn.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694036 Points: 71 # Comments: 96
Article URL: https://kalmanfilter.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693153 Points: 179 # Comments: 28
https://meta.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043 Points: 234 # Comments: 272
Article URL: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations.
Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes.
Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos ( system card PDF ), today.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Physical AI—AI systems that perceive, reason, and act in physically grounded simulated environments—is changing how teams design and valida…
Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago .
Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
Meta Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Spark, its first frontier model and Meta's first without open weights.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports gang scheduling, which ensures all pods required for a distributed training job are…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports OS-level interaction capabilities, enabling automation of browser workflows that require dire…
Amazon WorkSpaces Advisor is a new AI-powered tool that helps administrators quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues with Amazon WorkSpaces…
Stability AI is going commercial: The new "Brand Studio" lets creative teams generate AI visuals that match their brand identity, using cus…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS Lambda response streaming is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, bringing full regional parity for this capability.
The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, are rack-scale supercomputers.