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A new Gallup poll of 1,500+ young people finds Gen Z excitement about AI has fallen 14 points since 2025. Only 3% trust fully AI-generated work, yet Amazon is spending $200 billion on AI this year.
Meta is funding TerraPower reactors and a 1.2 GW Oklo campus. Amazon committed 5 GW of SMRs with X-energy by 2039. Google targets its first reactor through Kairos Power by 2030. Big Tech has decided that nuclear is the only answer to AI energy demand.
Alibaba secretly launched Happy Horse 1.0 inside its newly formed Token Hub unit. The model hit No. 1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard before anyone knew Alibaba had built it, displacing ByteDance's SeeDance.
Bellingcat found 795 email and password combinations for Hungarian government officials in stealer malware logs, covering 12 of 13 ministries and including a counter-terrorism coordinator and hybrid threat analyst.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview partners with Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft on Project Glasswing to redefine AI-driven defensive cybersecurity.
A hacker alias FlamingChina claims to have extracted 10-plus petabytes of classified defense data from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, including missile schematics and aerospace engineering files. Security analysts say the samples look real.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing, launched April 7, 2026 with 12 major tech partners, used a pre-release AI model to surface thousands of critical zero-day vulnerabilities, many dormant for over a decade.
A ransomware group breached LA's City Attorney office and stole 7.7 terabytes of LAPD records — including Internal Affairs investigations and officer personnel files — via a compromised third-party file transfer tool.
Broadcom signed long-term agreements with Google to produce future TPU generations and with Anthropic for 3.5 gigawatts of AI compute, as Anthropic revenue tops $30 billion.
A use-after-free flaw in Chrome's WebGPU layer is the fourth zero-day exploited in 2026. The patch is in Chrome 146.0.7680.178 and affects an estimated 3.5 billion users.
Google's Gemma 4 family includes four open-weight models under Apache 2.0, with the 31B flagship ranking third globally and edge variants running on smartphones and Raspberry Pi.
OpenAI confirmed the largest private funding round in history and announced a ChatGPT super app unifying chat, coding, search, and agents for its 900 million weekly users.
