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SpaceX in Talks to Acquire AI Coding Tool Cursor for $60 Billion
$60 billion. That's how much SpaceX is potentially offering for Cursor, the AI coding editor used by millions of developers - a price that would rank among the largest tech acquisitions ever.
Anthropic Investigates Claim That Unauthorized Group Accessed Its Mythos Cyber Tool
An unauthorized group claims to have accessed Mythos, Anthropic's restricted cybersecurity tool that isn't publicly available. Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch it is investigating the claim but says it has found no evidence its systems were compromised.
Anthropic Drops Claude Code from Its $20/Month Pro Plan
Anthropic quietly pulled Claude Code from its $20/month Pro subscription. Developers who were using the terminal-based agentic coding tool - which can autonomously edit files, run tests, and work through multi-step programming tasks without constant prompting - as part of their existing Pro plan no longer have access to it at that price point.
AI Agents Are the Step After Chatbots - and Building Them Reliably Is the Hard Part
ChatGPT launched in November 2022. A hundred million people signed up in two months. But three years later, the question isn't whether AI can hold a conversation - it's whether it can actually do the work.
MIT Tech Review Names Agent Orchestration One of AI's 10 Most Important Trends in 2026
Ten. That's how many AI developments MIT Technology Review named as the most important right now, in its 2026 annual roundup published this week.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Finally Gets Text Right Inside Generated Images
For years, putting readable text inside an AI-generated image was basically impossible. Ask any image generator to produce a business card, a poster, or a meme with legible words and you'd get back a mess of squiggly pseudo-letters that looked like someone tried to write while riding a bus. OpenAI's new Images 2.0 model, now rolling out inside ChatGPT, is changing that.
Sam Altman Calls Anthropic's Cybersecurity Model Mythos 'Fear-Based Marketing'
"Fear-based marketing." That's how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the launch of Mythos, Anthropic's new cybersecurity-focused AI model, in comments reported by TechCrunch.
Mozilla Found 271 Firefox Bugs Using Anthropic's AI Security Tool Mythos
271 bugs. That's what Mozilla's Firefox team found by pointing Anthropic's AI security tool Mythos at their browser's code - and then went ahead and fixed all of them, according to a Wired report.
Meta Is Recording Employee Mouse Movements and Keystrokes to Train Its AI
Your employer is now your AI trainer - at least if you work at Meta. The company plans to capture employee mouse movements and keystrokes to generate training data for its AI systems, according to a report from the Economic Times.
YouTube Expands AI Deepfake Detection to Hollywood Celebrities
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection system to Hollywood, giving enrolled celebrities automated tools to find synthetic videos of themselves and request their removal.
Starbucks' ChatGPT Ordering App Makes a Regular Coffee Order Slower
Ask for a venti iced coffee with light skim milk at a Starbucks counter and the transaction takes about 15 seconds. Ask the same thing through Starbucks' new ChatGPT-powered ordering interface, and it turns into a multi-step conversation.
YouTube Brings AI Deepfake Detection Directly to Celebrity Talent Teams
YouTube now gives celebrities and their management teams the ability to scan the platform for AI-generated videos that use their face or voice without permission, and request removal directly.
Google Adds 3 New Capabilities to Ads Advisor Ahead of Marketing Live
Google is rolling out three updates to Ads Advisor, the AI recommendation tool built directly into the Google Ads interface, according to a blog post published April 21. The timing puts these features roughly four weeks before Google Marketing Live on May 20 - the annual event where Google typically previews its bigger advertising roadmap.
Apple Names Hardware Chief John Ternus as Next CEO, Silent on AI
Apple just named John Ternus as its next chief executive, ending Tim Cook's 14-year run. Ternus is currently Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering - the executive responsible for iPhone, Mac, AirPods, and Apple Watch. The official announcement does not mention AI once.
Yelp Upgrades AI Assistant to Book and Act, Not Just Search
Yelp is reworking its AI assistant from a search helper into something closer to a booking agent. The company rolled out a suite of new features designed around what it calls "getting things done" - meaning the chatbot doesn't just surface business listings, it helps you act on them.
Vercel's Platform Went Down After Roblox Cheat Traffic Overwhelmed an AI Tool
On April 20, 2026, Vercel's platform suffered cascading failures that took down its dashboard, API endpoints, deployment pipeline, and observability stack. The root cause, according to a third-party post-mortem, traces back to an unlikely pairing: a Roblox cheat tool generating abnormal traffic, and an AI service sitting in the critical path that couldn't handle the load.
Anthropic Confirms Third-Party Claude CLI Clients Are Permitted Again
Anthropic has confirmed that third-party CLI clients - command line tools that let developers interact with Claude directly from a terminal - are permitted under its terms of service. The clarification applies to tools like OpenClaw, an open-source CLI client that routes API calls to Claude alongside other AI providers.
OpenAI Signs Accenture, PwC, and Infosys to Deploy Codex at Enterprise Scale
OpenAI is building a consulting army around Codex. The company announced a new program called Codex Transformation Partners, bringing in Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and several other professional services firms to help large organizations deploy Codex across their software development pipelines.