Monday, 6 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
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OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
Read moreStartup Battlefield 200 applications open: a chance for VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K
Nominate your startup, or one you know that deserves the spotlight, and finish the process by applying. Selected 200 have a chance at VC access, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K for Startup Battlefield 200. Applications close on May 27.
Read moreHow to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.
Read moreTicket savings of up to $500 this week for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Starting today, you have 5 days to save nearly $500 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. This offer disappears Friday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to secure these low rates.
Read moreSpain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.
Read moreIntroducing Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
Read moreClaude Opus 4.6
We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.
Read moreClaude is a space to think | Anthropic
We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.
Read moreAustralian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Read moreAnthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network
We’re launching the Claude Partner Network, a program for partner organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude.
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Inside the leaked Claude Code files
Docs as files, a new markdown editor and April fools
Read moreOne breach after another
separate and sandbox your agent's access
Read moreThe one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, re...
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SAM 3.1: Faster and More Accessible Real-Time Video Detection and Tracking With Multiplexing and Global Reasoning
Update March 27, 2026:
Read moreMapping the World's Forests with Greater Precision: Introducing Canopy Height Maps v2
Today, in partnership with the World Resources Institute, we’re announcing Canopy Height Maps v2 (CHMv2): an open source model and world-scale maps...
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