Thursday, 9 April 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.
Read moreSierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over
Co-founder of Sierra predicts that AI agents will make software interfaces obsolete.
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 morePoke makes using AI agents as easy as sending a text
Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.
Read moreAWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict
AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
Read moreIndustry
Anthropic built a model too risky to release
and Meta makes an unexpected entry
Read moreNo Claude for Claws
in 3 months, Anthropic added $6B ARR
Read moreFirst man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest
Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors.
Read moreResearch & Products
Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
Read moreSAM 3.1: Faster and More Accessible Real-Time Video Detection and Tracking With Multiplexing and Global Reasoning
Update March 27, 2026:
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