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Claude Code and Cowork Lower the Bar for Solo App Builders, Host Says
Anthropic's coding agents can guide non-developers through building React Native apps for iOS and Android, the host argues, as Apple cracks down on spam.
App Store Releases Nearly Double to 500,000 in Q1 as AI Coding Tools Reshape Output
App Figures data shows quarterly releases jumping from 250,000 in 2024 to roughly 474,000 in Q1 2026, with productivity tools eclipsing games.
Alberta election officials use canary traps to catch voter-list leak
Elections Alberta seeded its voter database with bogus entries, then watched them surface in a separatist group's online tool.
Roomba creator Colin Angle returns with Familiar, an AI robot pet
Familiar Machines & Magic unveiled Ami, a quadruped companion robot with 23 degrees of freedom running on Nvidia Jetson Orin.
OpenAI and Anthropic Pay Private Equity to Reach the Mid-Market Before IPO
OpenAI seeds a $10 billion joint venture with TPG, Bain and Brookfield while Anthropic strikes a $1.5 billion pact with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs.
Morgan Stanley Lifts 2026 Hyperscaler Capex Forecast to $805 Billion
The bank's analyst sees AI infrastructure spending potentially reaching $1.1 trillion by 2027, rivaling all non-tech S&P 500 capex combined.
Saudi-Backed Humane Launches Enterprise AI Operating System on AWS
Public Investment Fund vehicle Humane One debuts an agentic AI platform across 39 AWS regions, expanding the kingdom's sovereign AI push.
Brockman Says AI Wrote 80% of OpenAI Code by Month's End, Up from 20%
OpenAI president Greg Brockman puts the company 70 to 80 percent of the way to AGI, drawing pushback from rival researchers.
Anthropic and OpenAI launch parallel joint ventures to chase enterprise AI deals
Anthropic's $1.5B vehicle with Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman lands hours before OpenAI's $10B Development Company surfaces.
Musk texted Brockman 'most hated men in America' before OpenAI trial, filing claims
OpenAI's Sunday filing tried to enter the settlement exchange into evidence; the judge ruled it inadmissible.
Sierra raises $950M at $15B+ valuation as Bret Taylor scales agentic customer service
Tiger Global and GV lead the round, giving Sierra over $1B in capital after ARR jumped from $100M in November to $150M in February.
Musk's lone AI expert at OpenAI trial warns of AGI arms race
Berkeley's Stuart Russell told jurors AGI development creates winner-take-all dynamics that pull labs away from safety work.
Musk's 'World War III' Twitter threat resurfaces at OpenAI trial
OpenAI wants the judge to admit a pre-trial message from Musk to Greg Brockman warning he and Sam Altman would be 'the most hated men in America.'
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 opens BOGO pass deal: 50% off a second ticket through May 8
Five-day promo cuts up to $499 off a second pass for the October event in San Francisco, expected to draw 10,000+ founders and investors.
IAC just shut down a $321M business with a 30-year brand. Perplexity is worth $21B.
Ask.com closed on May 1, 2026, instead of being relaunched as an AI search wrapper. By any reasonable read of the comp set, that was the biggest unforced strategic error in consumer AI this year.
Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows
A new court filing reveals Elon Musk attempted to resolve his OpenAI lawsuit before jury selection in Oakland.
Jack Clark: 60% chance AI builds its own successor by end of 2028
Anthropic co-founder lays out the benchmark trail — SWE-Bench from 2% to 93.9%, METR horizons from 30 seconds to 12 hours — and calls the takeoff.
Asian stocks rise, oil holds flat as new Gulf proposals circulate
Equity markets across Asia traded higher while crude prices stayed range-bound, with traders weighing fresh diplomatic moves out of the Gulf.
GameStop makes unsolicited $56B bid for eBay, WSJ reports
The video game retailer turned meme stock is pitching a takeover of an online marketplace nearly nine times its size.
Two US troops reported missing during African Lion exercise in Morocco
Reuters reports the service members went missing during the annual multinational military exercise hosted by the Moroccan armed forces.
WHO confirms one hantavirus case and three passenger deaths on Atlantic cruise ship
The World Health Organization said one passenger tested positive for hantavirus after three deaths aboard an Atlantic cruise ship.
'This is fine' creator KC Green says AI startup Artisan stole his comic for a subway ad
Cartoonist KC Green says Artisan put his 2013 burning-dog meme on an ad for 'Ava the AI BDR' without permission and is hunting for a lawyer.
Four injured in London shooting on Saturday, Sky News reports
Reuters cites a Sky News report on a Saturday shooting in the British capital that left four people hurt.
Shakira draws 2 million fans to free Rio concert
The Colombian singer's beachfront show on Copacabana ranks among the largest single-artist concerts ever staged in Brazil.
Harvard study: OpenAI's o1 beat ER doctors on triage diagnoses, 67% to 55%
In a 76-patient Beth Israel trial, o1 matched or outperformed two attending physicians and GPT-4o at the first diagnostic touchpoint.
Squirrel creator Derrick Downey Jr. vibe-codes DualShot Recorder to No. 1 on the App Store
DualShot Recorder hit the top of the paid charts in 12 hours, built largely with Claude by a creator who isn't a software developer.
AI music hits 75,000 daily uploads on Deezer as streamers refuse to ban it
Deezer demonetized 85% of AI streams and Spotify pulled 75 million spam tracks, but neither will block generative music outright.
Academy bars AI-generated actors and scripts from Oscar eligibility
New rules require human performers credited in legal billing and human-authored screenplays, with the Academy reserving the right to audit AI usage.
AI dictation apps tested: Wispr Flow, Willow, Superwhisper lead a crowded field
TechCrunch's roundup tracks ten dictation tools spanning $0 free tiers to $249.99 lifetime plans, with latency as low as 80ms.
Iran executes two men convicted of spying for Israel
Tehran says the pair passed intelligence to Mossad; the executions land amid an unresolved ceasefire and stalled US-Iran talks.
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