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Maximilian Schreiner
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Apr 13, 2026
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Read full article about: Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - glasses, AirPods, and a camera pendant - all designed to capture the user's surroundings through computer vision and feed that data to Siri and Apple Intelligence. The goal is to enable features like better navigation instructions and visual reminders.

The glasses, internally codenamed N50, are expected to be announced in late 2026 or early 2027 and go on sale the same year. A distinguishing design feature will be vertically oriented oval camera lenses. Unlike Meta, Google, and Samsung, which partner with established eyewear manufacturers, Apple plans to handle the design in-house. The glasses will rely on the new version of Siri shipping with iOS 27.

Apple's former AI chief John Giannandrea is leaving the company for good this week, according to Gurman. His role had already been scaled back in 2025 following the underwhelming rollout of Apple Intelligence.

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Read full article about: Claude now works across all three major Office apps

Anthropic brings Claude directly into Microsoft Word. Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word add-in.

The AI can rewrite highlighted text, respond to comments in a document, and insert changes as tracked changes that users can accept or reject individually. Context can be shared across the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel add-ins.

Claude for Word is currently in beta for Team and Enterprise plans and can be installed through the Microsoft Marketplace. Supported file formats include .docx and .docm.

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Matthias Bastian
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Apr 13, 2026
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Read full article about: Sam Altman's San Francisco home hit by drive-by shooting just two days after Molotov cocktail attack

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood has been attacked again. According to an exclusive report by the SF Standard, someone apparently fired a shot at the property from a car early Sunday morning—just two days after a 20-year-old threw a Molotov cocktail at the same house.

According to the police report, a Honda sedan pulled up in front of the property, which stretches from Chestnut Street to Lombard Street, at 1:40 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle had already driven past once before. On the second pass, the passenger reached out the window and apparently fired a shot. Surveillance cameras captured the entire incident along with the license plate of the fleeing vehicle, which led police directly to the suspects.

The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrests of Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, on charges of negligent discharge of a firearm. During a search of their home, investigators found three firearms.

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Matthias Bastian
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Apr 12, 2026
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Man who firebombed Sam Altman's home was likely driven by AI extinction fears

A man threw a firebomb at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home in the middle of the night. The suspect was a member of the PauseAI Discord server and had posted online about AI driving humanity to extinction.

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Matthias Bastian
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Apr 12, 2026
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Read full article about: OpenAI employee tries to explain usage limits of the new ChatGPT Pro plans

OpenAI recently expanded its pricing options to include a $100 plan. But the company hasn't been particularly clear about how the usage limits differ from the existing $200 plan. OpenAI employee Thibault Sottiaux tried to clear things up, with an emphasis on trying.

According to Sottiaux, the $100 plan offers at least ten times the Plus usage, while the $200 plan offers at least twenty times. But both figures only reflect a temporary 2x usage boost that runs through May 31. On top of that, the $200 plan has had this boost since February, but OpenAI never explicitly documented it.

Once the boost expires at the end of May, usage could drop to at least five times and ten times Plus usage, respectively. Sottiaux didn't directly confirm these base values, though.

The confusion started because OpenAI's pricing page listed "5x or 20x usage." According to Sottiaux, the misleading labels led many users to assume the 2x boost would double both numbers to ten times and forty times. In reality, "20x" was already the boosted value for the $200 plan, while "5x" represented the base value of the cheaper plan.

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Matthias Bastian
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Apr 12, 2026
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Read full article about: Anthropic seeks advice from Christian leaders on Claude's moral and spiritual behavior

Anthropic invited roughly 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and business to a two-day summit at the end of March. According to the Washington Post, the $380 billion startup was looking for guidance on how to handle the moral and spiritual behavior of its chatbot Claude. Topics ranged from how to respond to grieving or at-risk users to whether an AI could be considered a "child of God."

Participants like Silicon Valley-based Catholic priest Brendan McGuire and Notre Dame professor Meghan Sullivan said they were convinced the company's interest was genuine. "They’re growing something that they don’t fully know what it’s going to turn out as," said McGuire.

The summit is another sign that Anthropic tends to view an AI model as something beyond a piece of technology. The company isn't alone in this: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also leaned on spiritual metaphors in the past. He's said, for example, that OpenAI was trying to develop "magical intelligence in the sky" and that he felt "on the side of the angels."

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Apr 12, 2026
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Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks

US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.

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