NEC Deploys Claude to 30,000 Engineers Across Japan
NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, giving 30,000 employees Claude access to build what both companies call Japan's largest AI-native engineering organization.
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Anthropic's Claude Code Post-Mortem: Three Bugs Fixed
Anthropic's April 23 post-mortem confirms three app-layer changes degraded Claude Code since early March - all reverted in v2.1.116 by April 20.
Connecticut Passes AI Bill 32-4 - Employment and Chatbots
Connecticut's Senate Bill 5 passed the state Senate 32-4 on April 21, covering frontier AI regulation, employment AI requirements, and chatbot self-harm rules - now it must survive a House that has blocked AI legislation before.
Bezos's Physical AI Lab Hits $38B After $10B Round
Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 for Agents and Work
OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5 ships today to ChatGPT and Codex, leading on Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 82.7% with a doubled per-token price.
DESIGN.md Goes Open Source - AI Agents Get a Style Sheet
Google Labs open-sourced DESIGN.md, a YAML-plus-markdown file that gives AI coding agents a brand's complete design system in one drop-in file - now works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
Vast Data Raises $1B at $30B, NVIDIA Backs AI Storage
Vast Data closes a $1B Series F at $30B valuation - triple its 2023 price - with NVIDIA, Drive Capital, and Access Industries backing its push to own the data layer for AI infrastructure.
Google Virgo Network Ends the Datacenter Scaling Tax
Google's Virgo Network connects 134K TPU chips at 47 petabits per second using a flat two-layer topology that removes the bandwidth degradation cluster operators have engineered around for years.
Inside DeepSeek V4's CANN Stack - Three Delays Explained
DeepSeek V4 has slipped three times since February. Jensen Huang called it a horrible outcome for America. Here is what is actually hard about running a trillion-parameter model on Huawei's CANN framework.
Biohacker Sequences Own Genome With Claude-Written Panel
Seth Showes' viral blog post describes sequencing his whole genome on an Oxford Nanopore MinION in his kitchen over 72 hours, with Claude generating the BED file that targeted his autoimmune-risk genes. The kit costs $3,200. The AI's role is more interesting than either number.
Claude Code Ships /ultrareview: Cloud Bug-Hunting Fleet
Anthropic's new /ultrareview slash command runs a fleet of reviewer agents in a cloud sandbox, bills $5 to $20 per run as extra usage, and gives Pro/Max three free tries through May 5. Team and Enterprise pay from day one.
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter: 96% F1 PII Masker
OpenAI released Privacy Filter today, a 1.5B MoE with 50M active parameters that tags eight categories of PII in text. Apache 2.0, 128K context, runs in a browser via WebGPU.
