Stanford 2026 AI Index - Cash In, Transparency Out
Stanford's 2026 AI Index shows global investment hitting $581B in 2025, while foundation model transparency scores fell by a third as capabilities raced ahead of governance.
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NSA Uses Mythos Even as Pentagon Blacklists Anthropic
NSA is running Anthropic's Mythos Preview while the Pentagon - its parent department - formally brands Anthropic a supply chain risk and fights in court to keep the company out of federal systems.
MCP Marketplace Audit - 32% of Servers Are Stale
We pulled 11,447 MCP servers from four registries, ran the GitHub and OSV APIs against them, and tried to install the top 100. Nearly a third haven't been touched in six months.
Vercel Breach Traced to AI Office Suite OAuth Token Theft
Vercel confirms an April 19 intrusion that pivoted from compromised OAuth tokens at AI office-suite startup Context.ai into a Vercel employee's Google Workspace, then into internal systems holding non-sensitive environment variables for a limited set of customer projects.
TSMC Q1: $35.9B Record as AI Now Powers 61% of Revenue
TSMC posted $35.9B in Q1 2026 revenue, a 40.6% year-over-year jump, with AI and HPC now accounting for 61% of wafer sales - and CoWoS packaging still fully booked.
Trump Says 'Who?' as His Own Staff Courts Anthropic
Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent at the White House on April 17, while Trump - standing on a Phoenix runway - said he had 'no idea' about the meeting.
OpenAI Loses Three Execs as Sora Era Ends and IPO Nears
Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan all left OpenAI on the same day as the company dismantles its consumer moonshots and sharpens its focus on enterprise revenue ahead of a potential IPO.
OpenMythos Recasts Claude Mythos as Looped MoE Transformer
Kye Gomez open-sourced OpenMythos, a PyTorch reconstruction that hypothesizes Anthropic's Mythos is a Recurrent-Depth Transformer with Mixture-of-Experts routing and Multi-Latent Attention.
World ID 4.0 Brings Human Verification to Tinder and Zoom
Sam Altman's World project launched World ID 4.0 at a San Francisco event on April 17, signing Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, and Okta as partners while introducing Agent Kit to authorize AI agents.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Knocks Figma 7%
Anthropic's new Claude Design tool turns text prompts into prototypes and slide decks - and wiped 7% off Figma's stock price the moment it launched.
Mozilla Thunderbolt Lets Enterprises Run AI Locally
MZLA Technologies launches Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hostable AI client targeting enterprises locked into Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Claude - with local SQLite storage and full model freedom.
Cursor Targets $50B Valuation - Enterprise Now Pays the Bills
Cursor is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, nearly doubling its November figure as enterprise clients drive 60% of revenue.
