Tech

Maine Set To Become First State With Data Center Ban (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-14 Ban

Intel added $100B+ in market value after its stock soared 53% in nine sessions following announcements to repurchase an Ireland fab and join the Terafab project (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-14 Intel Ireland

Californians Sue Over AI Tool That Records Doctor Visits (slashdot.org)
2026-4-14 AI

Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (www.aisi.gov.uk)
2026-4-14

Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China gap closed, the US leads in data centers and investment, and more (hai.stanford.edu)
2026-4-13 China AI

The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure (www.ft.com)
2026-4-13 Trump

Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-13 Microsoft

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-13 Amazon Microsoft

Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-13

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (www.wired.com)
2026-4-13 AI Reddit

Will Some Programmers Become 'AI Babysitters'? (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-4-13 Programmer AI

Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-13 Amazon

Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom (kotaku.com)
2026-4-13

A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-13 Tesla Instagram SpaceX

OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub (www.cnbc.com)
2026-4-13 London

Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-13 AI Nvidia

The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-13 Trump

For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (www.gallup.com)
2026-4-13 AI

A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-4-13 AI Algorithm

Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices (www.ft.com)
2026-4-13 AI

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development (slashdot.org)
2026-4-13

Sources: SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese companies launch a new AI company to develop a 1T-parameter foundation model for “physical AI” by 2030 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-4-13 Japan AI Honda Sony

Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to employees (www.ft.com)
2026-4-13 AI Zuckerberg

Analysis: US state lawmakers introduced 12 data center moratorium bills in 2026, 11 stalled or voted out, with a Maine bill set for a final vote on April 15 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-13

Ornn Compute Price Index: Nvidia Blackwell GPU hourly rent hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-13 AI Nvidia

Shenzhen-listed server PCB maker Victory Giant plans an April 21 Hong Kong listing, aiming to raise as much as $2.2B; the company was valued at $37B on April 10 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-13 Hong Kong Shenzhen

Sam Altman's Home Targeted a Second Time, Two Suspects Arrested (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-13

Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-13 Elon Musk

Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-13 AI

Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-4-13 AI

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