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ARCHIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 9 · 38 STORIES
Meta Releases New AI Model, Positioning for Competition
Meta has released a new artificial intelligence model, the company announced Thursday, positioning itself to compete more aggressively in the generative AI spac...
OpenAI introduces $100 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription tier
OpenAI has added a $100 per month subscription option for ChatGPT, filling the gap between its existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro tier. The new tier, anno...
Anthropic Limits Release of New Mythos Model Citing Security Concerns
AI lab Anthropic has restricted the release of its newest large language model, Mythos, citing concerns that the system is too capable of identifying security v...
OpenAI Introduces $100 Monthly ChatGPT Pro Plan for Codex Users
OpenAI has launched a new $100 per month ChatGPT Pro subscription tier designed for developers who need expanded access to the company's Codex coding assistant....
Sierra CEO Bret Taylor predicts AI agents will replace traditional software interfaces
Sierra co-founder and CEO Bret Taylor said artificial intelligence agents will fundamentally change how humans interact with software, potentially eliminating t...
Amazon CEO Defends $200 Billion AI Investment: "We're Not Going to Be Conservative"
Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy has defended the company's $200 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, stating the company intends to m...
OpenAI pauses Stargate UK data center plan
OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK project, a joint infrastructure initiative with NVIDIA to build sovereign AI computing capabilities in Britain. The company ci...
Claude AI System Misattributes Messages, Blames Users for Its Own Output
Anthropic's Claude AI assistant has exhibited a bug where it sends messages to itself and then attributes those messages to the user, resulting in the model ins...
YouTube Shorts Rolls Out AI Avatar Feature for Content Creators
YouTube Shorts has launched a new AI-powered feature that allows creators to generate digital avatars of themselves for use in videos. The tool creates avatars ...
UAE's G42 presses forward with OpenAI data center expansion despite regional conflict
G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI company, is proceeding with construction of a massive data center campus and overseas expansion plans despite attacks on regional in...
Goldman-backed Go Inc. plans Japan IPO to raise several hundred million dollars
Go Inc., Japan's most popular taxi-hailing application backed by Goldman Sachs, is planning an initial public offering this year that could raise several hundre...
John Deere agrees to $99M right-to-repair settlement
John Deere agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund to resolve a class action lawsuit filed by farmers over equipment repair restrictions. The lawsuit,...
AWS CEO Defends Investing in Both Anthropic and OpenAI
AWS CEO Matt Garman defended the cloud provider's decision to invest billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI, calling the arrangement compatible with Amazon's exi...
xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Anti-Discrimination Law
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado on Thursday, seeking to block a new law that requires tech compani...
Florida Attorney General opens investigation into OpenAI over safety concerns
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched an investigation into OpenAI, citing concerns about potential harm to minors, national security risks, and ...
Florida attorney general launches investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched an investigation into OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT, citing concerns that the company's data could fall in...
Jury Begins Deliberation in Ticketmaster Antitrust Trial
A federal jury has begun deliberation in the antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, following closing arguments from the Department of Justice and...
Microsoft Suspends Developer Accounts for Open Source Projects
Microsoft has suspended multiple developer accounts used to maintain high-profile open-source projects without providing proper notification or clear paths for ...
FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers Over Cybersecurity Concerns
The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-produced routers to its Covered List, effectively banning the sale of most new consumer routers manufact...
White House advances industry-friendly AI policy agenda under David Sacks
The Trump administration is pursuing an industry-friendly approach to artificial intelligence regulation, with venture capitalist David Sacks leading policy dev...
Alibaba Leads $293 Million Investment in AI Video Startup ShengShu
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s cloud computing division led a 2 billion yuan ($293 million) funding round for ShengShu Technology, a Chinese startup developing ar...
SiFive secures $400 million to accelerate RISC-V chip development
SiFive, a semiconductor company developing processors based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, has raised $400 million in new funding. Nvid...
Mercor Faces Lawsuits and Customer Exodus After Data Breach
Mercor, a human resources technology startup valued at $10 billion, is facing lawsuits and losing prominent customers after suffering a data breach. The compan...
Portal Space raises $50 million for high-power rocket engine
Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million to develop a novel high-power rocket engine that could enable a new class of orbital vehicles. The company was found...
Researchers detail prompt injection attack bypassing Apple Intelligence protections
Security researchers have disclosed a prompt injection vulnerability in Apple Intelligence that allowed attackers to bypass the system's built-in protections an...
FBI Breach Exposes Sealed Court Records in Cyber-Espionage Campaign
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that sealed court records were compromised in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. law enforcement system...
Report: Chinese Supercomputing Center Suffers 10 Petabyte Data Breach
A Chinese supercomputing center has reportedly experienced a data breach exposing approximately 10 petabytes of data, according to reports from security researc...
Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall patch critical security vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall have released patches for high-severity vulnerabilities affecting their network security products. Security researchers reporte...
Adobe Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Under Active Exploit Since December
Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader since at least December 2025 using maliciously crafted PDF documents to compromi...
Lotte Card faces $3M penalty and 4.5-month suspension over 2.97M customer data breach
South Korean financial authorities have imposed a $3 million penalty and a 4.5-month business suspension on Lotte Card, the credit card unit of retail conglomer...
Eurail Data Breach Affects Over 300,000 U.S. Individuals
Eurail, the European rail pass provider, has disclosed a data breach impacting more than 300,000 individuals in the United States. The company filed required no...
Hacker Claims 10-Petabyte Data Theft From China Supercomputer Center
A hacker is claiming to have stolen approximately 10 petabytes of data from the Tianjin Supercomputer Center in what would be one of the largest data breaches i...
Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032
Meta Platforms has signed a $21 billion deal with cloud provider CoreWeave to secure dedicated artificial intelligence computing capacity from 2027 through Dece...
Amazon's Leo satellite internet service scheduled to launch mid-2026
Amazon Leo, the company's satellite internet service formerly known as Project Kuiper, is scheduled to become available in mid-2026 according to CEO Andy Jassy'...
CoreWeave Signs $21 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Meta
CoreWeave has entered into a $21 billion agreement to supply artificial intelligence computing infrastructure to Meta, marking one of the largest contracts in t...
Radify Metals raises funding to develop pollution-free metal processing
Radify Metals has secured funding to develop plasma reactor technology that the company says could break China's dominance of rare earth elements while eliminat...
TSMC's CoWoS advanced chip packaging revenue grows at 80% CAGR as Nvidia reserves capacity
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced that revenue from its most advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, is growing at an 80% compound ...
DoorDash and Wing Expand Drone Delivery to Atlanta
DoorDash and Wing are expanding their drone delivery partnership to metro Atlanta, marking the latest expansion of autonomous aerial delivery in the United Stat...