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7.7 inches inside, 5.4 inches outside. Kirin 9030 Pro. 50MP variable aperture camera. Price from 10,999 CNY (~$1,615). China only.

Goldman Sachs leads the round. NVIDIA and SoftBank also invested. First in history FDA clearance for foundation model in clinical imaging.

Beijing stopped Meta's acquisition of Chinese AI firm Manus. First time China blocks such a large US AI deal. AI cold war is starting.

One hacker group. About 40 organizations. 38 million records published. If you shopped at Zara, used Rituals, sailed Carnival - your data is probably there.

CVE-2026-25874. Hackers can take control of an AI robot without a password. 21,500 GitHub stars - one of the most popular open-source robotics platforms.

iPhone +22% YoY. Revenue $111.18 billion. First report since Cook announced he steps down Sept 1, 2026 - John Ternus takes over.

Liam Price typed Erdős Problem #1196 into GPT-5.4 Pro. One prompt. 80 minutes of reasoning. An answer no one found in six decades.

First quarter 2026 brought 96,000 tech layoffs. 872 people daily. Year earlier was 3x less. Meta and Microsoft shares - rising.

One of NY's largest law firms submitted a court document with AI-invented precedents. The judge got furious. This is just the beginning.

The company behind Claude signed a 5 gigawatt compute deal with Amazon. That's what a city of 2 million consumes. Just to train AI.

Taiwanese chip factory broke records in Q1 2026. Reason - AI. But TSMC isn't just economics. It's geopolitics.

American humanoid robot helps assemble BMWs in South Carolina. 30,000 cars per year. Figure AI valuation: $39 billion. With no mass product.

Chinese humanoid robot company goes public in Shanghai. Americans with Figure and Tesla Optimus are still looking for investors.

Perplexity released its AI browser Comet for free on all platforms. A month ago it cost $200 per month.

China's DeepSeek launches V4 exclusively on Huawei Ascend chips. Three years of US sanctions - and the Chinese built it themselves. Jensen Huang's reaction: 'a big threat'.

Former Meta Chief AI Scientist left the giant and raised $1.03B for AMI Labs in Paris. $3.5B valuation - before any product ships.

April 14, 2026, World Quantum Day. NVIDIA unveils Ising. IonQ +20%, D-Wave +16%. Six companies up double-digits.

April 13, 2026: ShinyHunters expose 78.6M records from Rockstar Games. The attack didn't come through the front door - it came through Anodot, a small cloud analytics vendor.

April 15, 2026: Apple sends 60 Siri programmers to a multi-week intensive on Claude Code from rival Anthropic. Plus a Gemini deal with Google.

Musk finished the chip Tesla worked on for 4 years. Tesla stock +8% in one day. Plus a $25B fab in Austin and orbital data centers.

Hong Kong, April 13 2026. Four of the world's top five humanoid robot makers at one fair. AgiBot is already shipping 10K units a year.

The FBI's IC3 report includes AI fraud as a separate category for the first time ever. 22,364 complaints, $893M in losses. Voice cloning, fake faces, generated IDs.

Hospital AI scribes were supposed to reduce physician burnout. Instead, they're generating billions in inflated medical bills.

Q1 2026 saw 78,557 tech layoffs - nearly 3x more than last year. 48% of companies pointed to AI. But is AI actually replacing anyone?

Hackers poisoned the popular LiteLLM library and breached Mercor - a $10B startup. Lapsus$ claims it stole training data from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing threat intelligence through the Frontier Model Forum. Target: systematic AI model theft by Chinese firms.

Meta released Muse Spark - its first closed-source AI model. Led by Alexandr Wang, acquired for $14B, it marks a radical shift from the Llama philosophy.

Anthropic confirmed Claude Mythos exists. It found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. Only 40 organizations get access. Here's what that means.

OpenAI acquired TBPN, a daily 3-hour live show with $30M revenue and guests like Zuckerberg and Nadella. It's their first media acquisition - and it's a signal.

State-sponsored hackers compromised axios on npm, used a 2-second phone-home dropper, and hit every OS. Here's how 39 minutes of access caused a global supply chain event.

Google released Gemma 4 in four sizes under Apache 2.0. The smallest models run on phones and single-board computers. The biggest beat models 20x their size.

Q1 2026 broke every venture capital record ever set. $297 billion in three months, 81% flowing to AI. Four deals alone accounted for 64% of the total.

Oracle sent layoff notices at 6 AM with no warning. Up to 30,000 employees are out. The company just committed $156 billion to AI infrastructure.

Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank just put $122 billion into OpenAI. Here's who's betting what, and what a $852 billion valuation actually means.

An intern found 512K lines of Claude Code TypeScript source at 4 AM. What the leak revealed about how Anthropic builds AI tools - and what followed.

Anthropic accidentally revealed Claude Mythos - a new Capybara-class model stronger than Opus. Leaked docs warn of unprecedented cyber risk.

A federal judge blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a national security threat after the company refused to allow Claude for autonomous weapons.

LiteLLM - the tool thousands of companies use to connect to AI models - was infected with credential-stealing malware. The attackers used AI to automate it.

Shopify launched Agentic Storefronts - 5.6M stores automatically discoverable in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Copilot.

Anthropic shipped Computer Use - Claude can click, open apps, and complete tasks on your Mac while you're away. The AI agent era just got real.

Arm Holdings shipped its first physical chip after 35 years of licensing designs. Meta co-developed it. Stock jumped 16%. Here's why it matters.

OpenAI shuts down Sora after just 6 months. Estimated costs: $15M/day. Total revenue: $2.1M. The $1B Disney deal collapsed. What does this mean for AI video?

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano on March 17, 2026. Nearly as capable as the flagship at a fraction of the cost. Mini available on free ChatGPT. Why OpenAI says AI should work as a team.

The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, OpenAI signed a deal hours later, and ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%. Full timeline with sources.

Block (Square, Cash App) cut over 4,000 jobs on February 26, 2026. CEO Jack Dorsey explicitly cited AI tools as the reason in an official shareholder letter. Here's what happened and what it means.

First post on my new terminal-themed personal website.

MidJourney released V8 Alpha on March 17, 2026. New engine from scratch, ~5x faster generation, native 2K resolution, text rendering, and Style Creator. Full breakdown with sources.

$1 trillion in AI orders, a brand new chip architecture, autonomous Uber taxis, and the rise of AI agents — here's what happened at the world's biggest AI conference.

The story behind Handld — why I built an AI-powered phone call app for international business.