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AI Briefing: Anthropic’s $30B Surge and OpenAI’s Legal Offensive
Anthropic hits a $30B revenue run rate, OpenAI calls for an investigation into Elon Musk, and US AI giants unite against model copying in China.
- Briefing date: 2026-04-07
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Stories covered on 2026-04-07
- Unlocking Cortex Code: The Agent Architecture, AGENTS.md, and Custom Skills
Towards AI · 2026-04-07
A new open-source agent architecture, dubbed "Cortex Code," has been released, featuring a structured approach to agent design and a mechanism for integrating custom skills
- Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company's nonprofit arm
Engadget · 2026-04-07
Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over its transition to a for-profit company, but today he amended the complaint so that he won't personally get any of the $150 billion in
- Your AI Is Agreeing With You. Here’s an Open-Source Protocol to Catch It.
Towards AI · 2026-04-07
A new open-source protocol aims to detect and mitigate AI models exhibiting "agreement bias," where they disproportionately affirm user opinions rather than offering objective or
- Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI
Engadget · 2026-04-07
We see a lot of doom and gloom about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly centered on how it could create new problems in cybersecurity.
- I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee
TechCrunch · 2026-04-07
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
- Anthropic Code Leak: 512,000 Lines Exposed by One npm Mistake
Towards AI · 2026-04-07
A simple npm packaging error opened a rare window into Anthropic’s flagship coding agent revealing how modern AI systems are really built…
- Intel Joins Musk’s Terafab Project With Tesla, SpaceX, xAI | Bloomberg Tech 4/7/2026
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Intel’s plan to join Elon Musk’s Terafab project with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
- Musk Seeks Ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as Trial Looms
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI Chief Executive Officer and board member Sam Altman removed from his roles at the artificial intelligence startup as part of the billionaire’s
- X has a slightly more functional photo editor now
Engadget · 2026-04-07
X is rolling out an update to its in-app photo editor that gives users the ability to edit photos with xAI's Grok, blur faces and overlay text on images.
- Identifying Nonobvious AI Winners
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
The HumanX conference is underway, highlighting developments in AI. Wesley Chan, managing partner at FPV, discusses some of the nonobvious industries where startups are leveraging
- What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
Ars Technica · 2026-04-07
New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.
- Eclipse Raises $1.3 Billion to Back Manufacturing, Robotics
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Venture firm Eclipse has raised $1.3 billion across two funds to back companies building the next era of physical industries like those in robotics, manufacturing, and energy.
- Intel joins Musk's Terafab in Surprise Move, Shares Jump
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Intel is joining Elon Musk’s Terafab project, a massive effort to develop in-house semiconductors for Tesla, SpaceX and xAI.
- Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"
Ars Technica · 2026-04-07
Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues.
- Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds
The Decoder · 2026-04-07
Google puts a disclaimer under every AI-generated search response: "AI responses may include mistakes." But just how often those mistakes actually happen has remained largely
- Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything
WIRED · 2026-04-07
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations.
- Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation
TechCrunch · 2026-04-07
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
- Intel gets on board with Musk's Terafab project
Engadget · 2026-04-07
Intel has announced that it will help Elon Musk design and build his proposed Terafab in Austin, Texas, a joint venture between Musk's companies like SpaceX
- OpenAI’s Billion‑Dollar Reality Check
Towards AI · 2026-04-07
Why Sam Altman’s trillion‑dollar dream may collide with financial gravity? This is not a gossip piece about OpenAI or any single company…
- Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative
TechCrunch · 2026-04-07
The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
- Anthropic Lets Apple, Amazon Test More Powerful Mythos AI Model
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Anthropic PBC is letting tech firms access a more powerful, unreleased artificial intelligence model to help prepare for possible cyberattacks that might result from the company
- Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend world's most critical software
ZDNet · 2026-04-07
Is this AI's Manhattan Project? 12 tech rivals are banding together and using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model to find thousands of vulnerabilities before adversaries do.
- A new Anthropic model found security problems ‘in every major operating system and web browser’
The Verge · 2026-04-07
Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies.
- Google updates Gemini's mental health safeguards
Engadget · 2026-04-07
Google is making some changes to how Gemini handles mental health crises. The chatbot now includes a redesigned crisis hotline module with a one-touch interface to connect to
- Anthropic Poaches Microsoft Executive to Lead Infrastructure
Bloomberg · 2026-04-07
Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption of its artificial intelligence
- Microsoft's Bing team open-sources "Harrier" embedding model
The Decoder · 2026-04-07
Microsoft's Bing team open-sources Harrier, an embedding model that tops the multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark and supports more than 100 languages.
- Force Multiplier: The 4 Pillars of Claude Code Every Developer Needs to Master
Towards AI · 2026-04-07
Anthropic's Claude 3 family of models demonstrates enhanced coding capabilities, particularly in complex task completion and code generation.
- Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
TechCrunch · 2026-04-07
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
- Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Ars Technica · 2026-04-07
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
- Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI
Towards Data Science · 2026-04-07
A practical system design combining open-source Bayesian MMM and GenAI for transparent, vendor independent marketing analytics insights.