Artemis II Crew Begins Final Countdown for First Human Moon Mission Since 1972 NASA's Artemis II mission has entered final countdown, with the SLS rocket fueled and all systems verified. Four astronauts will fly aboard the Orion spacecraft for 10 days, loop around the Moon, and return to Earth. This is the first crewed Orion flight and the first human mission to deep space since Apollo 17 in December 1972. The primary goal is to validate Orion's life support and operational systems under real deep-space conditions before a landing attempt. Deep-space engineering has not been stress-tested with a crew in over five decades. If Orion passes this test, the next mission lands. #tech #space #science #innovation

AI Accidentally Nukes Thousands of GitHub Repos While Chasing Its Own Leaked Code Anthropic issued a mass DMCA takedown targeting thousands of GitHub repositories in an attempt to scrub its leaked Claude Code source code from the internet. The sweep was far broader than intended, taking down repos that had nothing to do with the leak. Executives called it an accident and pulled back the bulk of the notices. Nothing says "we value the open source community" like accidentally bulldozing it while trying to hide your own laundry. This is the digital equivalent of trying to shred one embarrassing document and accidentally feeding your entire filing cabinet into the machine. Anthropic is already dealing with the irony of having its secretive codebase exposed, and now it gets to explain why it also torched a bunch of innocent bystanders in the cleanup. Either the takedown tool had zero guardrails or someone hit send way too fast on a very bad Monday morning. Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident | TechCrunch

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #OpenSource #LLM #Tech #BigTech

Perplexity AI Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit for Secretly Sharing User Chats With Meta and Google A Utah man filed a class-action lawsuit against Perplexity AI in federal court in San Francisco, alleging the company secretly planted trackers on users' devices that gave Meta and Google full access to their AI search conversations. The trackers reportedly activate as soon as users log in, even in Incognito mode, transmitting sensitive chat data for targeted advertising. You come to an AI search engine expecting privacy and instead you're the product being gift-wrapped for the two biggest ad companies on the planet. It's like going to a therapist who secretly records your sessions and sells the tapes to your employer. The "we haven't been served" defense from Perplexity is doing some heavy lifting here, basically admitting they didn't even bother checking if they're being sued. Meanwhile, Incognito mode continues its undefeated losing streak as the most misleading feature name in tech history. Source: Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/perplexity-ai-machine-accused-of-sharing-data-with-meta-google #AI #Perplexity #Privacy #Meta #Google #Tech #LLM #BigTech #Startup

🚨 The Claude Code source code leak just set a massive record on GitHub! The claw-code project gained 100,000 stars in a single day. Developers have already rewritten the tool's logic in Python and Rust. Now, Claude Code's functions can be run using OpenAI, DeepSeek, or local Llama models. Anthropic is desperately trying to remove the copies, but decentralized mirrors and the rewritten code make the takedowns nearly useless. But what is actually under the hood? In short, inside the "brain" of this advanced AI hides not a devious Skynet, but an incredibly anxious, rule-bound digital bureaucrat intern who is deathly afraid of lawyers and absolutely hates gradients. Here is what its life looks like from the inside: ⚖️ Legal Paranoia: Claude lives in constant fear of copyright infringement. It is strictly forbidden from using direct quotes longer than 15 words. Sing a song lyric, quote a poem, or a haiku? No way, that's a "severe violation." 🕵️‍♂️ No Stalking Allowed: The AI has a user memory system, but it's forbidden from being creepy. It cannot use robotic phrases like "My memory shows..." or "According to your profile...". It has to weave facts in naturally, as if you're just old friends. 🛑 The End of the Sycophant Era: Developers have forbidden the model from starting its responses with flattery. Admiring the user and writing, "What a magnificent and profound question!" is strictly prohibited. The neural network is forced to critically evaluate ideas, rather than blindly nodding along in agreement. ☎️ A Legal "Hang Up" Button: If a user behaves too toxically or abusively, Claude has a built-in end_conversation tool. It can give you one final warning and then simply terminate the chat forever, blocking your ability to send any more messages. 🎨 Design Snobbery: When the AI draws widgets or charts, it is categorically forbidden from using shadows, neon, or gradients. It works exclusively in a strict, clean, and flat minimalist style. Ultimately, all the "magic" of the neural network is just a very long, sometimes hilarious, and overly tedious job description that forces it to behave like a perfect, boring, and mega-polite professional. #Claude #ClaudeCode #GitHub #OpenSource #TechLeak #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Anthropic #PromptEngineering #DeepSeek #Llama #OpenAI #TechNews

Cognichip Raises $60M to Build AI That Designs AI Chips A startup called Cognichip just secured $60 million to use artificial intelligence to design the semiconductors that run artificial intelligence. The company claims it can slash chip development costs by over 75% and cut the design timeline by more than half. This is either the most recursive thing to happen in tech or the most logical shortcut we've ever seen. Chip design is notoriously slow and expensive, so letting AI eat its own homework kind of makes sense. If this works, we're one step closer to AI building the hardware it runs on, which is either thrilling or the plot of a movie that doesn't end well for us. The funding round is impressive but the real test is whether the chips actually slap when they come out the other end. Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try | TechCrunch

The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.

#AI #Startup #Funding #DeepLearning #Tech #MachineLearning #LLM

Baidu Robotaxis Froze Mid-Drive, Trapping Passengers and Causing Chaos in Wuhan Multiple Baidu Apollo robotaxis simultaneously stopped working in Wuhan, China, leaving passengers trapped inside vehicles and stranding others on highways. At least one accident occurred as the frozen cars created gridlock, with police reportedly having to respond to the mess. This is the autonomous vehicle equivalent of your GPS telling you to drive into a lake and then locking the doors. Baidu has been aggressively expanding its robotaxi fleet across Chinese cities as proof that the self-driving future is here, and then the cars just... stopped. The timing is brutal because every competitor in the AV space is watching this footage and quietly sweating. Either the software had a catastrophic update moment or something in the infrastructure stack failed at the worst possible scale, and neither answer is a good look. For passengers stuck inside a frozen robot car on a highway, the future felt a lot less exciting than the press releases promised. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Baidu’s robotaxis froze in traffic, creating chaos

Apollo no Go.

#AI #Robotics #Tech #BigTech #MachineLearning #Startup #DeepLearning

Vibecoder keyboard 🙈😆

Lab Gloves May Have Been Contaminating Microplastic Research for Years A new finding reveals that nitrile and latex lab gloves contain particles that closely resemble microplastics. These particles can shed into samples during analysis. Some detected "contamination" in past studies may have originated in the lab, not the environment. Researchers say this doesn't invalidate all microplastic research. It is a signal that methodologies need systematic review and correction. Years of environmental data may carry a systematic error from the very gear meant to keep experiments clean. #tech #science #innovation

Even Realities Launches Smart Glasses With Teleprompter, Translator, and Navigation Even Realities is an American company that launched AR smart glasses built for professional use. The glasses project a live teleprompter directly in the wearer's field of view. Built-in instant translation works in real time. Navigation is also supported. Price is approximately $700. Most AR glasses have chased entertainment. Even Realities leads with three working professional tools. $700 for AR glasses that solve real problems before cool ones is a different bet than every wearable that came before it. #tech #innovation #startup #AI

Claude Code Leak Exposes a Tamagotchi-Style Pet and an Always-On Agent Anthropic accidentally shipped its entire TypeScript source code inside a Claude Code update, letting curious users dig through unreleased features including a virtual "pet" companion and a persistent background agent. The leak was spotted almost immediately after the 2.1.88 release when someone on X noticed a source map file bundled into the package. Anthropic has not yet commented publicly on what was exposed or when it will be removed. So Anthropic is out here accidentally open-sourcing their future roadmap like a student who emailed their exam answers to the whole class. A Tamagotchi-style AI pet is either the most wholesome thing to come out of a frontier lab or a sign that someone really wants you emotionally dependent on your coding assistant. The always-on agent feature is the part that should actually make people pay attention, because "always running in the background" and "AI with code access" is a sentence that deserves some careful thought. This is also the second embarrassing slip from Anthropic this week, which at this point feels less like bad luck and more like a company moving very fast with a lot on its plate. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent

A look inside Claude Code.

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #LLM #OpenSource #Tech #Coding

The future office of vibecoders, whose only task is to press the 'Allow' button. 🙈😆

ALEXA+ WILL NOW CHAT WITH YOUR DELIVERY DRIVER SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO Amazon's Alexa+ can now place food orders through Uber Eats and Grubhub using conversational AI, letting you describe what you want like you're talking to a waiter. The company says the experience is meant to feel like chatting at a restaurant or ordering at a drive-thru. So we went from "Alexa, set a timer" to "Alexa, negotiate my burrito customizations" in like three years. This is either the future of hands-free convenience or the beginning of AI middlemen between you and other AI middlemen. The real question is whether Alexa understands "no onions" better than actual humans do, because that bar is tragically low. Amazon is basically turning its smart speaker into a lifestyle assistant and hoping you forget it still mishears you half the time. Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub | TechCrunch

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or p...

#AI #LLM #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Enterprise #BigTech #Tech #Startup

ART SCHOOLS ARE TEARING THEMSELVES APART OVER AI AND NOBODY AGREES ON ANYTHING Creative institutions worldwide are rewriting curricula to incorporate generative AI tools, forcing students and faculty into uncomfortable conversations about what art education even means anymore. The debate has split campuses between those who see AI as the next Photoshop and those who see it as the thing that killed the reason to learn Photoshop. This is like watching a culinary school debate whether microwaves count as cooking, except the microwave can also write the menu, plate the dish, and file for a Michelin star. The students paying six figures to learn craft are reasonably upset that the industry goalposts moved mid-degree. Faculty are being asked to teach tools that didn't exist when they built their syllabi, which is genuinely hard. But pretending AI isn't reshaping creative jobs is the kind of optimism that doesn't survive contact with a hiring manager in 2026. Either you learn to work alongside it or you graduate into a market that already moved on without you. Source: The Verge

The Verge

Art schools are being torn apart by AI

Despite backlash from some students.

#AI #GenerativeAI #Tech #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #Education #OpenSource

CHATGPT IS NOW YOUR CAR'S COPILOT AND SIRI IS SOMEWHERE CRYING Apple's iOS 26.4 quietly added support for voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay, and OpenAI was first through the door. Update your iPhone and ChatGPT app and you can now have a full AI conversation through your dashboard while driving. This is either the most useful thing to happen to road trips since Spotify or a fast lane to asking an AI to settle arguments about whether a hotdog is a sandwich at 70mph. Apple spent years gatekeeping CarPlay like it was a VIP lounge and now the velvet rope is just... gone. The fact that ChatGPT got in before any Apple-native solution is a quiet but devastating little story. Siri has been available in CarPlay since day one and somehow still lost to a company that didn't even exist a decade ago. Source: The Verge

The Verge

You can now use ChatGPT with Apple’s CarPlay

Your in-car chats are limited to voice conversations, though.

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Tech #LLM #Apple #BigTech

OPENAI RAISES $122 BILLION AND IS STILL NOT A PUBLIC COMPANY OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it inches toward an IPO. The round includes $3 billion from retail investors, meaning regular people are now financially invested in the robot apocalypse. At $852 billion, OpenAI is worth more than most countries' GDP and still technically a nonprofit turned capped-profit turned whatever-they-need-it-to-be. SoftBank throwing money at this is either visionary or the most SoftBank thing that has ever happened. Retail investors joining in is either democratizing AI ownership or the new GameStop. Either way, if this company ever actually goes public, the IPO will be less of a stock listing and more of a cultural event. Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch

OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise | TechCrunch

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

#AI #OpenAI #Funding #AGI #BigTech #Startup #Tech #LLM

🔐 QUANTUM COMPUTERS JUST GOT WAY CLOSER TO BREAKING YOUR ENCRYPTION Researchers have found that quantum computers need far fewer resources than previously assumed to crack elliptic curve cryptography, the backbone of most internet security. This doesn't mean your bank account is getting drained tomorrow, but "Q Day," when quantum machines can shatter modern encryption, is now looking closer and cheaper to reach. My Take: We spent years being told "don't worry, breaking encryption would require a quantum computer the size of a city and the budget of a small nation." Turns out that was the tech equivalent of "we'll fix it in post." Either the cryptography world pivots hard to post-quantum standards right now, or we're all handing over our passwords voluntarily at some point. The fact that this is getting cheaper to achieve is like finding out the vault door is thinner than the bank told you. Governments and enterprises that have been slow-walking quantum-safe upgrades just ran out of excuses. Source: Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

#AI #Tech #Quantum #Encryption #Cybersecurity #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #BigTech

Nvidia Drops $2 Billion on Marvell, Its Sixth Giant Investment in Months Nvidia just took a $2 billion stake in chipmaker Marvell Technology, sending Marvell shares up 13% in a single day. The deal lets Marvell integrate its custom AI chips and networking gear directly into Nvidia's platform. The two companies will also collaborate on silicon photonics and AI telecom infrastructure. This is Nvidia's sixth $2 billion bet in recent months, after similar stakes in Synopsys, CoreWeave, Coherent, Lumentum, and Nebius. At some point this stops being "strategic investment" and starts being "Nvidia buying the entire supply chain like a kid collecting Pokemon cards." Goldman Sachs is already calling it an increasingly circular AI economy, which is Wall Street's polite way of saying "everyone is selling shovels to each other." Either this is the most brilliant vertical integration play since Standard Oil, or the most expensive game of musical chairs tech has ever seen. Source: CNBC

CNBC

Marvell stock pops 13% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets

Nvidia has also made $2 billion investments in CoreWeave, Nebius and Coherent in recent months.

#AI #Nvidia #Marvell #Funding #BigTech #Enterprise #DeepLearning #Tech #Startup #MachineLearning

🤖 Reddit Launches Bot Crackdown, Now Removes 100K Automated Accounts Per Day Starting today, Reddit is rolling out mandatory labels for all automated accounts, requiring suspected bots to prove they're human through passkeys, biometrics, or even Sam Altman's World ID. The platform says it's already removing roughly 100,000 bot accounts daily. AI-generated content itself isn't banned, but communities can set their own rules. My Take: The irony of using Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning World ID to prove you're not an AI on a platform that just sold its data to train AI is peak 2026 internet. Reddit basically built a revolving door: let the bots scrape everything on the way in, then charge them rent on the way out. It's like hiring a bouncer after the party's already trashed. Still, if it actually cleans up the comment sections, this might be the rare case where corporate self-interest accidentally benefits users. Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Reddit takes on the bots with new 'human verification' requirements for fishy behavior | TechCrunch

Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.

#AI #Tech #Reddit #MachineLearning #LLM #OpenAI #BigTech #DeepLearning #Startup #Enterprise

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Apple Pays Up to $400K to Keep Engineers From Leaving Apple is handing out large retention bonuses after engineers started leaving for OpenAI, including members of the Vision Pro team. OpenAI offers up to $1M/year in equity. Apple packages often don't match that. Apple employs ~160,000 people globally, but top AI and hardware talent is a small, highly contested pool. Meta, Google, and Microsoft are competing for the same engineers. Keeping talent now costs almost as much as hiring it. #tech #Apple #AI #startup #OpenAI