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Published Apr 17, 2026, 8:14 PM

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Prev…
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Published Apr 17, 2026, 7:56 PM

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.
Published Apr 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

I kind of wish it just took pictures. I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously appealing, I'm not ex…
Published Apr 17, 2026, 3:57 PM

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release pub…
Published Apr 17, 2026, 3:46 PM

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a test last year, Dairy Queen is widely launchi…
Published Apr 17, 2026, 3:46 PM

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the trade-off may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
Published Apr 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
Published Apr 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

TechCrunch
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release pub…
Published Apr 17, 2026, 12:10 PM

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, leaving…
Published Apr 16, 2026, 10:55 PM

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 9:58 PM

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 8:41 PM

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 7:18 PM

TechCrunch
OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 6:28 PM

Krieger's departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse — that the largest AI labs will come to dominate software businesses, a thesis that has rocked public markets at times this year.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 5:00 PM

Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the web page side-by-side with AI Mode.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 4:15 PM

According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and diagnosing where AI models go wrong — it's also diagnosing how the entire tech stack operates now that AI is part of it.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 4:14 PM

Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 4:00 PM

The new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 2:14 PM

Runway’s CEO says AI could help studios make dozens of films for the cost of one, betting volume will boost hit-making odds.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

MIT Tech Review
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is…