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This ban took place after Claude's pricing changed for OpenClaw users last week.

OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.

OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Previously, subscriptions jumped from $20 to $200 per month.

ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.

The app was ranking No. 57 on the App Store just before Meta AI's new model launched. Now it's No. 5 — and rising.

Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Are real cybersecurity concerns a cover for a bigger problem at the frontier lab?

The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.

Google merged NotebookLM into Gemini on April 9, 2026, allowing users to upload documents and PDFs to create searchable repositories with auto-generated study guides. This brings a formerly standalone product to Gemini's two billion user base.

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.

Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.

Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.

OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I

Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.

Anthropic reported an annualized revenue run rate of $30 billion as of early April 2026, up from approximately $9 billion, driven by accelerating enterprise adoption. The company expanded compute infrastructure agreements with Google and chip manufacturer Broadcom to support growing demand. The revenue growth narrows the gap with OpenAI, which had previously maintained a significant lead in commercial AI revenue.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview on April 8, 2026, a cybersecurity-specialized model that identified thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. Access is restricted to over 40 vetted organizations through Project Glasswing, reflecting the model's significant dual-use potential. The release marks a meaningful capability threshold for AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have identified Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax as using model distillation to extract capabilities from American frontier models. Anthropic has moved to block Chinese-controlled companies from accessing Claude. All three labs have formally characterized this practice as intellectual property theft, marking a significant escalation in the geopolitical AI divide.

Meta released Muse Spark, the first model from its Superintelligence Labs division led by Alexandr Wang, on April 8, 2026. The model, developed codenamed Avocado, scores 86.4% on figure understanding benchmarks but 42.5% on abstract reasoning tasks. The release follows Meta's $14 billion investment in Wang's team and highlights that perception and reasoning capabilities remain difficult to develop in tandem.