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18 April 2026 Vol 19

Category: Tech

Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party

Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents.…
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model…
Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability

Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability

As a product VP at Google Cloud, Michael Gerstenhaber works mostly on Vertex, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise…
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock…
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push

OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push

OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business…
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM

Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM

The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s…
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as…
Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets

Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets

After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify…
VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report

VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report

In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its…
Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft

Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft

After nearly 40 years at Microsoft, Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving the company, along with…