Alibaba's Qwen3.6 Coder: 73.4 SWE-bench, 22GB VRAM
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B lands with 73.4 on SWE-bench Verified and Apache 2.0 weights, all from 3 billion active parameters routed through a 256-expert MoE. Fits on a single consumer GPU.
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Google Sunsets Vertex AI, Launches Agent Control Plane
Google replaced Vertex AI with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026 - a full-stack control plane that assigns every agent a cryptographic ID and routes all tool calls through a central policy gateway.
Firefox 150: Claude Found 271 Bugs, 3 Got Credits
Mozilla's blog says Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 vulnerabilities patched in Firefox 150. The security advisory lists 36 CVEs, and only three of them credit Anthropic. The gap is the whole story.
Discord Group Slipped Into Claude Mythos on Day One
A private Discord group has been quietly using Anthropic's most restricted AI model since the hour it shipped. They got in with a stolen contractor badge and a URL guessed from the Mercor breach.
OpenAI Signs Seven Giants to Push Codex Enterprise
OpenAI launches Codex Transformation Partners with Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, TCS, and others, and embeds its own engineers at client sites via Codex Labs as weekly users hit 4 million.
Thinking Machines Picks Google Cloud for First GB300 Deal
Mira Murati's AI lab signs a single-digit-billion deal with Google Cloud for GB300 chip access, its first cloud provider commitment, as frontier labs race to lock in next-gen compute.
Google's Four-Chip Plan to Own AI Inference at Scale
Google splits its next TPU generation across Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, and Intel to win inference economics, revealed ahead of Cloud Next 2026.
SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Acquire Cursor This Year
SpaceX disclosed a deal granting it the right to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion in 2026, or pay $10 billion for shared development work, deepening Elon Musk's grip on the developer toolchain.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 - Thinking Mode and 2K Output
OpenAI's gpt-image-2 adds reasoning, web search, and 2K resolution to image generation, with a tiered model that charges more for standard outputs than its predecessor.
Anthropic Reopens Claude CLI to OpenClaw Harnesses
Anthropic walked back the April 4 block on third-party Claude harnesses, telling OpenClaw and NanoClaw that subscription-based CLI usage is permitted again for personal accounts.
Deezer: 44% of New Music Uploads Are AI-Generated
Deezer now receives 75,000 AI-generated tracks a day, 44% of all new uploads, while AI music accounts for just 1-3% of total streams and 85% of those are flagged as fraud.
Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Budget by April
Uber's CTO admits the company has exhausted its full-year AI spending allocation in four months, driven by runaway Claude Code adoption across 95% of engineers.
