Month: April 2026

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onApril 21, 2026

Cursor Raises $2 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation—Fastest B2B Software Company to Hit $1 Billion ARR, Outpacing Slack, Zoom, and Snowflake

A three-year-old coding editor just became the fastest B2B software company to reach $1 billion ARR—beating Slack’s record by roughly…

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Artur Markus

onApril 19, 2026

Apiiro CLI Launches April 9 Turning AI Coding Assistants Into Security Engineers by Rewriting Developer Prompts in Real Time

Your AI coding assistant now has a shadow editor—one that rewrites your prompts before the AI model sees them, injecting security constraints…

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Artur Markus

onApril 18, 2026

35 State Attorneys General Launch Coordinated Investigation into xAI’s Grok for Generating Nonconsensual Intimate Images and CSAM

The largest coordinated state enforcement action against an AI company just launched—and it targets content safety failures that most…

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Artur Markus

onApril 17, 2026

Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers++ Cut Jailbreak Success Rate from 86% to 4.4%—Only 1 Universal Jailbreak Found in Bug Bounty Testing

Anthropic just compressed what should have been years of AI safety progress into one architecture update—blocking 95% of jailbreaks for 1%…

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Artur Markus

onApril 16, 2026

Anthropic Delays Mythos AI Model After It Autonomously Exploited Tens of Thousands of Software Vulnerabilities with 80% Success Rate

Anthropic just became the first major AI lab to delay a frontier model because it got too good at breaking into systems. Mythos achieved an…

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Artur Markus

onApril 15, 2026

Meta Llama 4 Launches April 5 with 109B-Parameter Scout Model—17B Active Parameters Fit on Single H100, Outperform GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 on STEM Benchmarks

Meta just made frontier AI fit on one GPU—and simultaneously banned 450 million Europeans from using it.

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Artur Markus

onApril 14, 2026

First Federal Take It Down Act Conviction: Columbus Man Pleads Guilty to AI-Generated CSAM Using 100+ Models Across 24 Platforms—Created Over 700 Images

A Columbus man just became the first person convicted under the 2025 Take It Down Act, and the technical sophistication of his operation—100+…

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Artur Markus

onApril 12, 2026

OpenAI Launches Age Prediction on ChatGPT January 20—Behavioral Signals Identify Under-18 Users to Block Graphic Violence, Self-Harm Content, and Risky Viral Challenges

ChatGPT now profiles your behavior to guess your age—then restricts what you can access based on that prediction. OpenAI just made every AI…

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Artur Markus

onApril 11, 2026

OpenAI o3-mini Launches January 31 with 95% Cost Cut Over GPT-4—First Small Reasoning Model with Function Calling Outperforms o1 on Coding Benchmarks

OpenAI’s cheapest reasoning model now beats its most expensive one at writing code. That sentence should make every CTO reconsider their…

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Artur Markus

onApril 10, 2026

Stargate Project Launches with $500 Billion Commitment—OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX Deploy $100 Billion Immediately for Texas Data Centers

The largest AI infrastructure bet in history was announced with $500 billion in commitments. Seven months later, Bloomberg reported no funds…

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