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🔄 OpenAI reshuffles leadership as top executives step back 🚀 Musk requires SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok subscriptions 📱 NASA astronauts took iPhones on Artemis II mission 🚪 Claude just shut the door on OpenClaw ⚠️ Meta pauses Mercor partnership after AI data breach ⚡ Half of planned US data center builds delayed or canceled 🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 5 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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🔄 OpenAI reshuffles leadership as top executives step back
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- OpenAI is making several leadership changes at once, with its COO moving to a new role, its CEO of AGI development taking medical leave, and its marketing head stepping down.
- COO Brad Lightcap will now lead "special projects" involving complex deals and investments, while former Slack CEO Denise Dresser, the new chief revenue officer, takes over his commercial duties.
- Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks to deal with a neuroimmune condition, and co-founder Greg Brockman will manage product while she is away.
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🚀 Musk requires SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok subscriptions
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- Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and other advisers working on the SpaceX IPO to buy subscriptions to Grok, his AI chatbot, according to a New York Times report.
- Some banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on Grok and have already started integrating the chatbot into their IT systems as part of the deal.
- The IPO filing came after SpaceX purchased xAI, which makes Grok and owns the X social network, while Grok faces investigations for generating harmful imagery.
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📱 NASA astronauts took iPhones on Artemis II mission
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- NASA astronauts on the Artemis II mission carried iPhone 17 Pro Max devices to the moon, marking the first time the agency gave each crew member a personal smartphone for photos and videos.
- The iPhones can't connect to the internet or use Bluetooth and are limited to capturing photos and videos, and NASA had to run a four-phase safety review covering hazards like shattering glass.
- The crew also has four GoPro Hero 11 cameras and two Nikon D5 bodies onboard, and NASA discussed using Velcro to mount phones inside the Orion capsule in microgravity conditions.
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🚪 Claude just shut the door on OpenClaw
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- Anthropic announced that starting April 4, 2026, Claude Pro and Max subscribers will no longer be able to connect their subscriptions to third-party agentic tools like OpenClaw, citing strain on compute and engineering resources.
- Users can still power third-party agents with Claude models, but they must now switch to pay-as-you-go "extra usage" billing or Anthropic's API, which charges per token instead of offering flat-rate access.
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, now at OpenAI, accused Anthropic of copying popular open-source features into Claude Code and then locking out competing tools, while Anthropic offered credits and discounts to ease the transition.
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⚠️ Meta pauses Mercor partnership after AI data breach
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- Meta has paused its partnership with Mercor, the AI training data company, after a massive data breach exposed as much as 4TB of sensitive information including candidate profiles and personally identifiable information.
- Mercor has been approaching professionals across industries, including visual effects artists, offering payment in exchange for work materials from previous jobs like "4D physics scenes with camera data."
- Much of the material Mercor is seeking likely belongs to former employers and is protected by intellectual property laws and confidentiality agreements, even though the company says it "does not buy intellectual property."
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⚡ Half of planned US data center builds delayed or canceled
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- About half of all planned U.S. data center builds this year are expected to be delayed or canceled, mainly because key electrical equipment like transformers, switchgear, and batteries is in short supply.
- Lead times for high-power transformers in the U.S. have stretched from around two years before 2020 to as long as five years today, far exceeding the under-18-month deployment cycles AI data centers need.
- China still accounts for over 40% of U.S. battery imports and nearly 30% of certain transformer and switchgear categories, so ongoing trade-war tensions could further disrupt builds despite massive spending plans.
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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
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'Copilot is for entertainment purposes only': Even Microsoft's official terms and conditions say you really shouldn't be using its AI at work
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Anthropic discovers "functional emotions" in Claude that influence its behavior
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Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million
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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
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Chinese Robot Pioneer UBTech Offers $18 Million for AI Scientist
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Apple leans into the component crisis storm
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Netflix open-sources VOID, an AI framework that erases video objects and rewrites the physics they left behind
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Backer Y Combinator drops Delve on compliance allegations; top brass allege smear campaign
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Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push
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🧰 Trending tools
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Google Vids 2.0: creates AI-generated videos using Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1 models, letting teams produce video content without requiring editing expertise or production budgets.
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Surf Social Websites: aggregates Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube into one feed, eliminating the need to check multiple platforms separately.
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Mercury Edit 2: a diffusion-based LLM that generates code up to 10x faster than traditional autoregressive models while maintaining comparable output quality.
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APImage: an AI photo editor that removes backgrounds, generates product visuals, and creates studio-quality images from text prompts in seconds.
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ismcpdead.com: aggregates live data from GitHub, Hacker News, and Reddit to track Model Context Protocol adoption metrics and community sentiment.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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> Self-distillation for code generation improves a 7B parameter model's accuracy from 50.6% to 60.4% on HumanEval by training it on its own correct outputs, matching models 10x larger.
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> Reasoning models decide which tool to use in their first few tokens, before actually reasoning through the problem, suggesting they rely on pattern matching rather than deliberate analysis.
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> Video object removal deletes people or objects from videos while realistically filling in backgrounds and maintaining interactions with remaining elements, trained on 100,000 video clips with synthetic annotations.
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> KV cache compression cuts memory usage to 2 bits per value using polar coordinates instead of Cartesian, maintaining 99% accuracy on long context tasks while reducing storage by 8x compared to standard methods.
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