📰 News Daily News: April 8, 2026
Anthropic's Project Glasswing finds thousands of critical vulnerabilities, Anthropic hits $30B revenue, OpenAI proposes robot taxes, AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry, and China's quantum AI milestone.
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📰 News Anthropic's Project Glasswing finds thousands of critical vulnerabilities, Anthropic hits $30B revenue, OpenAI proposes robot taxes, AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry, and China's quantum AI milestone.
📰 News China's Origin Wukong quantum computer fine-tuned a billion-parameter AI model with 76% fewer parameters and 8.4% better results — suggesting an alternative to the West's scale-everything approach.
📰 News OpenAI's GPT-5.4, released last month, continues to set new standards for AI capability. The model now scores 83% on GDPVal, a benchmark testing professional-quality work across 44 jobs — a 12-point...
📰 News AI Futures Project revises AGI timelines 1.5 years shorter. Microsoft pivots to independent AGI development. Brockman: OpenAI is 70% to AGI.
📰 News Anthropic confirmed it will block Claude subscription access for third-party AI agent tools, including OpenClaw, effective April 5 at 12 PM PT. The policy change forces thousands of developers who...
📰 News Greg Brockman says OpenAI has 'line of sight to AGI' as Spud model enters pre-training, Sora shuts down, and a $122B funding round closes.
📰 News Anthropic has acquired stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a deal worth approximately $400 million. The acquisition signals a major expansion beyond Claude's consumer and enterprise chat...
📰 News Three of the world's top AI labs are operating on internal AGI timelines of 2027-2028. Not as a moonshot. As a planning assumption.
📰 News While Western companies debate whether AI agents are ready for production, Alibaba just deployed them to millions of merchants. Taobao and Tmall now have autonomous AI workers handling customer service, inventory, and pr...
📰 News At 4:23 AM ET on March 31, 2026, a security researcher spotted something in the latest Claude Code npm package that shouldn't have been there: a source map pointing to 512,000 lines of Anthropic's proprietary code.
📰 News Microsoft's move is particularly notable because it directly competes with OpenAI — its longtime partner. The Register described it as Microsoft 'shivving OpenAI' with homegrown models. The three...
📰 News We've all heard it. Maybe we've said it. The voice assistant misunderstands, the AI gives a wrong answer, the chatbot takes too long — and out comes the frustration. The snap. The dismissal.