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Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, is having a moment. Loading audio narration… Claude is Anthropic’s flagship product. The bot underpins a family of the company’s leading AI models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. In February 2026, Anthropic released Opus 4.6, an upgrade to a model that just three months prior “scored higher than any human candidate ever” on the AI startup’s notoriously difficult test for prospective engineers.With the release of Cowork in January 2026, Anthropic made Claude’s non-programming capabilities more accessible, helping spur the so-called “SaaSpocalypse” that briefly wiped out roughly $1 trillion in market caps for software companies.Here’s everything you need…

On the eve of Salesforce’s latest earnings report, CEO Marc Benioff invited Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri over for drinks.Both men run companies squarely in the blast radius of a debate that has taken hold across Silicon Valley and Wall Street: Will artificial intelligence be the death knell for some of the most influential companies in Big Tech?The question has already rattled the sector: Microsoft’s stock has dropped more than 21% this year, Salesforce’s 26%, Workday’s 36%, and Asana’s 51%. The IGV, a benchmark for software stocks, is down nearly 22% year to date. It’s also shaking credit markets, as investors…

Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies. The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched its platform, Rocket 1.0, which connects research, product building, and competitive intelligence in a single workflow. The platform generates detailed product strategy documents — including pricing, unit economics, and go-to-market recommendations. As AI-powered coding tools proliferate — from platforms like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to features such as Claude Code and Codex — writing code has become…

The home of a councilman in Indianapolis was shot at early Monday in what local police said was an “isolated, targeted incident.” Loading audio narration… The incident came less than a week after the Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6 to 2 on April 1 to approve rezoning to allow the construction of a data center.Ron Gibson, a Democrat who represents District 8 on the council, spoke out in support of the rezoning and the efforts to build the data center in his district.”Earlier this morning, between approximately 12:45 a.m. and 12:50 a.m., just a few hours after Easter Sunday,…

Medvi is an AI-powered telehealth startup with two employees. It did $401 million in business last year, generated $65 million in profit, and is projected to do $1.8 billion in sales this year, according to a recent profile in the New York Times. Loading audio narration… A key factor in Medvi’s growth has been the use of affiliate marketers. Matthew Gallagher, Medvi’s founder, told Business Insider in an email that “maybe 30%” of its advertising was through affiliates.A review of Meta’s ad library showed that some of these affiliates have run ads that feature what appeared to be AI-generated content,…

A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has made its first close on its $100 million goal, the founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written a couple of checks.  The fund is called Zero Shot (a play on the AI training term) and its co-founding team includes several OpenAI OGs who found themselves becoming VCs almost by serendipity.   Three of the founding partners hail from OpenAI. Evan Morikawa, the former head of applied engineering during the launch of DALL·E and ChatGPT through Codex, is now at robotics startup Generalist. Andrew Mayne, OpenAI’s original prompt engineer, is well-known…

The AI boom isn’t slowing down; it’s accelerating. Loading audio narration… Lin Qiao, a former Meta engineer who helped build PyTorch, now runs Fireworks AI, a $4 billion startup processing 15 trillion AI tokens a day, and she says demand is only just getting started.”This is the year token consumption is going to grow exponentially,” Qiao told me in a recent interview.Fireworks AI’s inference cloud platform is now processing roughly 15 trillion AI tokens per day, up from 13 trillion just a few months ago and 10 trillion in late 2025. (Models break down words and other inputs into numerical…

Email spam used to be one of the major annoyances of the digital world. But in recent years, email providers have taken steps to improve our overflowing inboxes, which were often riddled with distractions and unwanted mail, like hyperbolic promotions and attempts to steal your data.But that doesn’t mean the problem has gone completely. While we can often feel helpless to this issue, there are a selection of ways to ease the problem. One of the easiest and best ways to go about it is with email aliases.What is an email alias?An email alias sounds more dramatic than it is.…

Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others. The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcription, and when you hit pause, the app automatically filters out filler words like “um” and “ah” and polishes the text. Below the transcript are options like “Key points”, “Formal”, “Short”, and “Long” to transform the text. Image Credit: Screenshot…

Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran’s military said that if the U.S. went ahead with its threats to hit its civilian infrastructure, the country would retaliate with its own strikes against U.S.’ energy and tech infrastructure in the region, according to a video released late last week and shared widely on Sunday of Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari. The video released by Iran shows an image of a globe, then zooming in on the Stargate data center in the United…