Tuesday, 7 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Anthropic ups compute deal with Google and Broadcom amid skyrocketing demand
Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
Read moreUber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
Read moreGoogle Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.
Read more4 days left to save close to $500 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes
Four days left to save up to $482 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These low rates will disappear on April 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now.
Read moreThe AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.
Read moreAnthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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 moreIndustry
No Claude for Claws
in 3 months, Anthropic added $6B ARR
Read moreInside the leaked Claude Code files
Docs as files, a new markdown editor and April fools
Read moreTesting suggests Google's AI Overviews tells millions of lies per hour
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
Read moreResearch & Products
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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