Anthropic cuts third-party tool access for Claude Code subscribers starting April 4, 2026, forcing separate pay-as-you-go payments, while OpenClaw's creator accuses the company of copying open-source features into its own closed tool before locking out competitors — a charge Anthropic denies, calling it a sustainability decision.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a fully open-source 120-billion-parameter AI reasoning model, strategically designed to expand the AI ecosystem, reduce dependence on proprietary AI customers, and ultimately drive greater demand for its GPUs, which already power 90% of generative AI workloads.
AI recruiting giant Mercor, valued at $10 billion and serving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, confirms a major data breach after hacking group TeamPCP planted malicious code in open-source AI library LiteLLM, with notorious extortion group Lapsus$ now claiming to hold 4TB of stolen data including source code, database records, and …
Anthropic cuts third-party tool access from Claude Code subscriptions starting April 4, forcing users to pay separately, as OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger — now at OpenAI — alleges suspicious timing tied to Anthropic's rollout of competing features in its own closed tool.
Kintsugi, a California startup that spent seven years developing AI software to detect depression and anxiety from speech patterns, is shutting down and open-sourcing its technology after FDA regulatory delays drained its funding before approval could be secured.
Google launches Gemma 4, its most powerful open-source AI model family yet, offering four sizes that run on everything from Android phones to IoT devices, with top models ranking in the global top 10 for open AI, supporting 140 languages, and available free under an Apache 2.0 license.
A global 'frugal AI' movement is gaining momentum, delivering small, energy-efficient models that run on cheap, offline hardware to serve communities excluded from mainstream AI, including preserving endangered Indigenous languages using minimal data on sub-$50 devices.
Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-weight AI model family with four sizes optimized for both large-scale and mobile use, while switching to the developer-friendly Apache 2.0 license and teasing a next-gen Gemini Nano 4 for smartphones ahead of Google I/O.
Anthropic accidentally leaks 512,000 lines of Claude's proprietary TypeScript source code via an npm package, exposing secret AI architecture, unreleased model codenames, a hidden 'Undercover Mode,' and an internal model with a 29-30% false claims rate — while users who installed the package during a specific window face additional supply-chain …
AI recruiting startup Mercor confirms it was hit in a massive supply chain attack on open-source library LiteLLM, which sees millions of daily downloads, with extortion group Lapsus$ claiming responsibility and sharing allegedly stolen data including Slack conversations and contractor videos, while thousands of other companies may also be compromised.