AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking
AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets u…

Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents

In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no …

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelt…

CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives …

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos isn’t a sentient super-hacker, it’s a sales pitch — claims of ‘thousands’ of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews

Anthropic has convened America’s big tech companies and the U.S. government to deal with the many bugs and vulnerabilities its new AI found, but this may be just the latest attempt by Anthropic to scare people into thinkin…

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion

In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The ne…

Amazon’s AWS Chief Is ‘Bullish’ On Middle East Despite Conflict

Matt Garman, who rose from intern to Amazon Web Services boss, also hopes the company’s recent deal with OpenAI will help improve the e-commerce giant’s Trainium chips.

OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path
OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path

In short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nsc…

Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips
Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips

In short: Google Cloud and Intel have announced a deepened multi-year AI infrastructure partnership covering both CPU deployment and custom chip co-development. Google Cloud will continue adopting Intel’s Xeon 6 processors across its global infrastruct…

Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson as CFO to manage its $50 billion AI data centre push
Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson as CFO to manage its $50 billion AI data centre push

In short: Oracle has appointed Hilary Maxson, former executive vice president and group chief financial officer at Schneider Electric, as its new chief financial officer, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson reports to chief executive Clay Magouyrk and takes…