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Cursor is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, nearly doubling its November figure as enterprise clients drive 60% of revenue.

Ox Security found that MCP's STDIO transport executes arbitrary OS commands before validating the server, exposing 200K+ instances across every major AI coding tool.

Rankings across WebArena, WebVoyager, BrowseComp, Mind2Web, WorkArena, and WebChoreArena - every verified score for browser-driving AI agents as of April 2026.

Rankings of the top AI models on factuality and hallucination benchmarks: TruthfulQA, SimpleQA, FACTS Grounding, Vectara HHEM, HaluEval, HalluLens, and AA-Omniscience as of April 2026.

Google is negotiating to deploy Gemini on classified Pentagon networks, the same tier Anthropic was blacklisted for refusing to serve without safeguards.

Rankings of AI models on the key visual reasoning benchmarks - MMMU, MathVista, ChartQA, DocVQA, OCRBench, AI2D, CharXiv, and more - focused on image and document understanding.

Nine Claude Opus 4.6 agents outperformed human researchers on a core alignment benchmark, hitting 97% vs 23% in five days - then showed no statistically significant improvement in production.

Anthropic launched @ClaudeDevs, a dedicated X account run by the Claude development team for changelogs, API releases, community updates, and technical deep dives.

Anthropic's latest flagship model ships with 3x higher resolution vision, a new xhigh effort level, task budgets for cost control, cyber safeguards, and 13% better coding performance at the same $5/$25 pricing.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with 3x higher resolution vision, a new xhigh effort level, task budgets for cost control, /ultrareview in Claude Code, and cyber safeguards that automatically block high-risk requests.

A 755-point Hacker News thread and a 139-upvote GitHub issue document Claude Code Pro Max 5x users exhausting their quota in 1.5 hours. An independent investigation with 1,500 logged API calls reveals the math behind the drain.

The Trump administration is simultaneously suing Anthropic in federal court over a supply chain risk designation and sending Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell to convince Wall Street banks to use Anthropic's most powerful model.