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April 2026



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I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Husk/Twitter — 10-04-2026


US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026


China’s AI coding boom has an economics problem — Hello China Tech — 13-04-2026


The vibes are off at OpenAI — The Verge — 08-04-2026


OpenAI’s IPO Value Is Threatened by Sam Altman’s Lack of Focus — Bloomberg — 08-04-2026


Data Center Bans: Tracking State and Local Moratoriums Across the U.S. — Data Center Bans — 07-04-2026


Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026


Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU — The Register — 07-04-2026


Google’s AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026


Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026


How the Iran War Could Devastate the AI Industry: The Helium and Bromine Crisis — Transformer News — 02-04-2026


Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic — 02-04-2026


OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026


Cheap Power, Competitive Politics: Electricity Costs, Partisan Lean, and Data Center Location in the United States — Kyle L. Saunders — 01-04-2026


100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026


The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code — Observer — 31-03-2026


Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026


The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI — The Wall Street Journal — 27-03-2026


TRIBE v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain — Meta — 26-03-2026


Can an A.I. Chatbot Be Your Romantic Partner? — The New York Times — 26-03-2026


AI's enterprise revenue race: Anthropic vs. OpenAI — Axios — 18-03-2026


What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026


Companies’ first AI check is going to Claude via Ramp Economics Lab — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 11-03-2026


How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026


'It means missile defence on datacentres': drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower — The Guardian — 07-03-2026


President Trump during a phone interview this morning: 'I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs.’ — Politico via Andrew Curran/Twitter — 05-03-2026


Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System — Lawfare — 02-03-2026


What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026


It would take Pentagon months to replace Anthropic's AI tools: sources — Defense One — 26-02-2026


Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 25-02-2026


AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations — New Scientist — 25-02-2026


OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI’s Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026


Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over GPT-4o’s Emotional ‘Soul’ — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026


The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026


The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026


Claude Code is the Inflection Point — SemiAnalysis — 05-02-2026


Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026


Four Hundred Meters on Mars: The First AI-Planned Drive on Another Planet — Anthropic — 30-01-2026


Interview: Demis Hassabis @ Sources Live, Davos — Sources — 26-01-2026


The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei — 26-01-2026


America’s coming war over AI regulation — MIT Technology Review — 23-01-2026


How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic — WIRED — 22-01-2026


Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk — Bloomberg Live — 20-01-2026


Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026


Yann Le Cun: 'Why I'm leaving Meta to launch my own AI start-up' — Le Monde — 16-01-2026


There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem — The New York Times — 12-01-2026


The rise of Anthropic and why safety is leading the AI arms race — CNBC — 10-01-2026


How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 06-01-2026


Google’s Josh Woodward says AI safety must move as fast as Gemini improves — CNBC — 20-12-2025


Why AI companies are suddenly rebranding AGI — The Verge — 18-12-2025


Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI — Financial Times — 16-12-2025


Business leaders agree AI is the future, they just wish it worked right now — Reuters — 16-12-2025


From Garlic to Avocado: The goofy AI model codenames you should know — Business Insider — 11-12-2025


Architects of AI named Time's 'Person of the Year' — Reuters — 11-12-2025


Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence — Essential AI — 05-12-2025


Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked — Futurism — 03-12-2025


Ilya Sutskever (SSI) – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research — Dwarkesh Podcast — 25-11-2025


The Z.ai Playbook — ChinaTalk — 21-11-2025


The troubling reality of DeepSeek's AI model — Lowy Institute (The Interpreter) — 18-11-2025


Cohere Is Canada's Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? — The Walrus — 17-11-2025


 

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