• Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (Jude Joffe-Block/NPR)
• A pro-Iranian cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that knocked the websites of both companies offline this month (Bloomberg)
• Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
• The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
• Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
• Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
• Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
• Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
• Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
• Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
• Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, closing Sora, betting on text vs. world models, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
• Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic)
• Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
• Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity "reckoning", it is not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
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| • Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company's nonprofit arm
• Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI
• X has a slightly more functional photo editor now
• Apple's foldable iPhone is reportedly at risk of delay
• Movie tracking app Binge uses Apple's Live Activities to warn about jump scares
• Intel gets on board with Musk's Terafab project
• UK Meta employee reportedly downloaded 30,000 private photos from Facebook users
• Google updates Gemini's mental health safeguards
• Chrome finally adds support for vertical tabs.
• Xbox Game Pass additions for April include Hades 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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• The Morning After: Apple’s foldable iPhone may be delayed
• Artemis II astronaut puts all of our iPhone moon photos to shame
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• The League of Legends KeSPA cup will air globally on Disney+
• New Jersey has no right to ban Kalshi's prediction market, US appeals court rules
• Apple will again appeal to the Supreme Court in battle with Epic Games
• Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models
• NASA's Artemis II crew just flew farther away from Earth than anyone ever has before
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• Netflix just released a standalone gaming app for kids
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• Mercedes-Benz recalls some G-Wagon EVs due to risk of wheels falling off
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• The UK government reportedly wants Anthropic to expand its presence in London
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