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Anthropic Blocks Claude Pro and Max Users From OpenClaw, Shifts to Pay‑As‑You‑Go

Anthropic Blocks Claude Pro and Max Users From OpenClaw, Shifts to Pay‑As‑You‑Go

Anthropic announced that, effective April 4, 2026, Claude Pro and Max subscription plans can no longer be used with third‑party AI agent frameworks such as OpenClaw. Users must now pay for any extra usage under a pay‑as‑you‑go model or supply a separate API key. The move ends a quiet subsidy that let thousands of developers run autonomous agents on a flat‑rate plan, prompting cost spikes of up to 50 times for heavy users. Anthropic says the change protects capacity and aligns pricing with the compute‑intensive workloads of agentic tools.

Perplexity AI Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Sharing in Incognito Mode

Perplexity AI Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Sharing in Incognito Mode

A class-action suit filed by an anonymous user, identified as John Doe, accuses Perplexity, the fast‑growing AI search platform, of breaching privacy promises. The complaint alleges that the company’s incognito feature fails to shield user conversations, instead funneling chat transcripts, IP addresses, email identifiers and location data to advertising partners such as Google and Meta. If the allegations prove true, the case could force tighter transparency standards across AI‑driven services.

Study Finds 73% of Users Accept Faulty AI Answers, Raising Concerns Over Trust

Study Finds 73% of Users Accept Faulty AI Answers, Raising Concerns Over Trust

Researchers analyzing 1,372 participants across more than 9,500 decision‑making trials discovered that people accepted AI‑generated answers that were wrong 73.2% of the time, while only overturning them in 19.7% of cases. The study links high trust in artificial‑intelligence systems to a greater likelihood of being misled, whereas individuals with higher fluid intelligence were more prone to question the AI. Authors warn that while reliance on AI can be advantageous when the technology is superior, the current tendency to treat AI output as authoritative creates a structural vulnerability in human judgment.

OpenAI shifts leadership: COO Brad Lightcap to lead special projects, CEO Fidji Simo on medical leave

OpenAI shifts leadership: COO Brad Lightcap to lead special projects, CEO Fidji Simo on medical leave

OpenAI announced a major executive reshuffle on April 3, 2026. COO Brad Lightcap will leave his operational role to head a new "special projects" unit reporting directly to CEO Sam Altman. CEO Fidji Simo disclosed she is taking several weeks of medical leave for a neuroimmune condition, while chief marketing officer Kate Rouch steps down to focus on cancer treatment. Denise Dresser, former Slack chief executive, assumes the chief revenue officer post, and co‑founder Greg Brockman will temporarily oversee product. The changes aim to preserve momentum on the company’s research and growth agenda.

Anthropic Acquires AI‑Driven Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio for $400 Million

Anthropic Acquires AI‑Driven Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio for $400 Million

Anthropic completed a $400 million stock purchase of Coefficient Bio, a stealth AI biotech firm founded by former Genentech researchers Samuel Stanton and Nathan C. Frey. The acquisition adds a ten‑person team focused on accelerating drug discovery to Anthropic’s health and life‑science division, following the company’s October launch of Claude for Life Sciences, an AI tool aimed at scientific research.

Anthropic Files to Launch New Political Action Committee

Anthropic Files to Launch New Political Action Committee

Anthropic has filed paperwork to create AnthroPAC, a political action committee funded by voluntary employee contributions up to $5,000 each. The PAC will target both parties in the upcoming midterm elections, donating to incumbent lawmakers and emerging candidates. The move signals the AI firm’s deeper foray into Washington’s lobbying arena amid an ongoing legal dispute with the Defense Department over the use of its models. Anthropic joins other tech companies that have collectively poured millions into election cycles in recent months.

OpenClaw patch tackles critical flaw that could hand attackers full admin control

OpenClaw patch tackles critical flaw that could hand attackers full admin control

OpenClaw, the AI‑driven automation tool that has amassed over 347,000 GitHub stars since its November debut, received emergency patches this week for three high‑severity bugs. The most dangerous, CVE‑2026‑33579, scores between 8.1 and 9.8 out of 10 and lets a low‑level pairing credential silently elevate to full administrative rights, giving a malicious actor unrestricted access to the host’s files, accounts and connected services.

OpenAI reshuffles leadership as CEO Sam Altman takes medical leave

OpenAI reshuffles leadership as CEO Sam Altman takes medical leave

OpenAI announced a series of senior‑level changes on Thursday as chief operating officer Brad Cox moves to a special‑projects role, former Slack CEO Denise Wasserman assumes his responsibilities, and chief marketing officer Kate Miller steps down to focus on cancer treatment. The updates come alongside CEO Sam Altman's disclosure that he will be on medical leave for several weeks due to a relapse of a neuroimmune condition.

Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models, Signaling Shift From OpenAI Partnership

Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models, Signaling Shift From OpenAI Partnership

Six months after renegotiating its contract with OpenAI, Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 on its Foundry platform. The new models, built by a ten‑person team, boast lower error rates, faster speeds and competitive pricing, giving the tech giant a functional AI stack independent of its former partner. The rollout underscores Microsoft’s new freedom to pursue "humanist superintelligence" and could reshape enterprise AI spending.

Trump's AI Data Center Push Stalls Amid Chinese Parts Shortage and Tariffs

Trump's AI Data Center Push Stalls Amid Chinese Parts Shortage and Tariffs

President Donald Trump’s effort to fast‑track AI data center construction is hitting a wall. Developers say aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports have crippled the supply chain for essential power‑equipment components, pushing delivery times from months to years. With U.S. manufacturers unable to meet demand, nearly half of the year’s planned facilities face delay or cancellation, jeopardizing the administration’s goal of keeping America ahead in the artificial‑intelligence race.

Google Launches Gemma 4 Models and Shifts to Apache 2.0 License

Google Launches Gemma 4 Models and Shifts to Apache 2.0 License

Google introduced the Gemma 4 family of open-weight AI models, offering four variants optimized for local execution and mobile devices. The two larger models—26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense—run unquantized on a single 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU and can be quantized for consumer GPUs. Smaller Effective 2B and Effective 4B models target smartphones and edge hardware, benefitting from collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek. Google also replaced its custom Gemma license with the Apache 2.0 license, giving developers greater freedom. The company claims Gemma 4 models are the most capable locally runnable AI systems, positioning them near the top of open AI model rankings.

Anthropic’s DMCA Takedown Accidentally Hits Legitimate Claude Code Forks

Anthropic’s DMCA Takedown Accidentally Hits Legitimate Claude Code Forks

Anthropic issued a DMCA notice to GitHub to remove a repository that contained leaked Claude Code client source code. The notice also listed nearly one hundred forks of that repository. GitHub’s automated processing interpreted the request as covering a broader network of about 8,100 similar forks, many of which were legitimate copies of Anthropic’s official public Claude Code repository. The over‑broad takedowns sparked backlash from developers, prompting Anthropic to ask GitHub to limit the removals to the specifically named URLs and to restore the other repositories.