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Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17

OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences” (sfstandard.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Add Azure Architect & Administrator skills to your resume for $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

IPv6 Usage Reaches Historic 50% Across Google Services (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 Google

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (www.wired.com)
2026-4-17 Startup AI

DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17

OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-4-17 Browser

Japan aims for a shipbuilding revival (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-17 Japan

Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-17 Korea

Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI

Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-4-17

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI Model That Is Less Risky Than Mythos (slashdot.org)
2026-4-17 AI

The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-4-17 Korea

‘You're killing children!': Vance heckled at key MAGA event (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17

Second round of US-Iran talks being discussed – White House (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17 Iran

Trump wants to ‘rewire' global oil away from Hormuz – expert (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17 Trump

Russia publishes list of Ukraine-linked military production facilities around the world (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17 Russia Ukraine

Solidroad, which uses AI to evaluate customer interactions with human and AI agents to find risk, skill gaps, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Hedosophia (siliconangle.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes (9to5google.com)
2026-4-17 Google AI Intelligence

Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, is in talks to raise $150M led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Orban's exit through global eyes: Who really gains – and who doesn't (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17

Iran considering easing Strait of Hormuz restrictions – Reuters (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17 Iran

Ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Lebanon – Trump (www.rt.com)
2026-4-17 Trump Israel Lebanon

Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others (www.wired.com)
2026-4-17

Thousands of migrants descend on consulates across Spain after socialist government gave the green light to give 500,000 legal status (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-4-17 Immigration Spain

EU Age Verification App Announced To Protect Children Online (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-4-17

Congratulations, Mississippi. You've Earned It. (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-4-17

Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-17 AI

Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that “improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens” (9to5mac.com)
2026-4-17

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