AI News. April 17, 2026

Apr 17, 2026

White House preparing to give US federal agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, with new safeguards due to cybersecurity concerns

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🇺🇸 LATEST: The White House is preparing to grant US federal agencies access to Anthropic’s Mythos model with added safeguards due to cybersecurity concerns.

10:30 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 11.7K Views

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, with notable gains in advanced software engineering, better vision, and same pricing as 4.6

Claude@claudeai

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

2:29 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 9.68M Views

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UK banks will gain limited access to Anthropic’s Mythos in the coming week, per Bloomberg

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🇬🇧 HUGE: UK banks will gain limited access to Anthropic's Mythos in the coming week, per Bloomberg.

10:20 AM · Apr 16, 2026 · 52.2K Views

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OpenAI introduced GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built for biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine

OpenAI@OpenAI

Introducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine.

7:33 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 1.15M Views

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OpenAI released Codex Super App with Memory, Computer Use, in-app browser, image generation via gpt-image-1.5, and 111 new plugins

Andrew Ambrosino@ajambrosino

Big Codex update today. Codex can now work across more of your computer, more of your tools, and longer-running projects. It started as a coding agent. It’s becoming a teammate for the whole software loop.

5:14 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 45.7K Views

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OpenAI preparing to release Computer Use for Codex as an optional plugin, with real-time voice mode and automatic suggestions also in development

OpenAI@OpenAI

Codex for (almost) everything. It can now use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools, create images, learn from previous actions, remember how you like to work, and take on ongoing and repeatable tasks.

5:18 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 1.73M Views

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Google rolled out a new Chrome Search experience letting users view webpages side-by-side with AI Mode for comparisons and follow-up questions

Google@Google

We’re introducing a new Search experience in @googlechrome that lets you open webpages side-by-side with AI Mode – no tab switching required. Now, you’ll be able to compare details and ask follow-up questions while still maintaining the context of your search, whether you’re

5:38 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 170K Views

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xAI to release beta of Grok Build app and Grok CLI next week

Elon Musk@elonmusk

@HighlyUnspoken @cb_doge @Similarweb @grok Beta release of Grok Build app & terminal next week

7:38 AM · Apr 16, 2026 · 285K Views

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Perplexity launched Personal Computer, integrating with the Mac app to orchestrate across local files, iMessage, Apple Mail, Calendar, and other native apps

Perplexity@perplexity_ai

Today we're releasing Personal Computer. Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser. We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.

3:51 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 9.23M Views

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Alibaba open-sourced Qwen 3.6, a 35B-param MoE model with 3B active, under Apache 2.0, with multimodal performance matching Claude Sonnet 4.5 on several benchmarks

Qwen@Alibaba_Qwen

⚡ Meet Qwen3.6-35B-A3B：Now Open-Source！🚀🚀 A sparse MoE model, 35B total params, 3B active. Apache 2.0 license. 🔥 Agentic coding on par with models 10x its active size 📷 Strong multimodal perception and reasoning ability 🧠 Multimodal thinking + non-thinking modes

1:23 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 1.77M Views

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MiniMax added an always-on managed agent MaxHermes powered by Hermes to its Agent platform, letting users run 2 managed agents simultaneously

MiniMax_Agent@MiniMaxAgent

Meet the world's first cloud sandbox Hermes Agent: MaxHermes 🪬 Every task it completes → new skills unlocked. Use it more → it gets better at being yours. Start your Hermes era now: agent.minimax.io

9:00 AM · Apr 16, 2026 · 51.3K Views

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TestingCatalog News 🗞@testingcatalog

MiniMax added a new always-on managed agent, powered by Hermes, to its MiniMax Agent platform. Now users can operate 2 managed agents, each powered by a different project. Imagine these 2 combined 👀 Openmes or Herclaw?

MiniMax_Agent @MiniMaxAgent

Meet the world's first cloud sandbox Hermes Agent: MaxHermes 🪬 Every task it completes → new skills unlocked. Use it more → it gets better at being yours. Start your Hermes era now: https://t.co/pmGzrLTWfk

1:11 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 11.2K Views

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ATXP migrated to x402 and MPP on Solana, topping agentic commerce leaderboards with 5,000 users on 2+ products and over 1M transactions

Solana@solana

BREAKING: @atxp_ai moves to x402 and MPP on Solana, topping the agentic commerce leaderboards. 5,000 users leverage two or more ATXP products, and the protocol recently crossed 1 million transactions.

8:36 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 42.7K Views

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HIVE Digital Technologies lined up $75M 0% exchangeable senior notes due 2031 to fund GPU procurement and data center expansion, with conditional TSX approval

HIVE Digital Technologies@HIVEDigitalTech

Oil powered the last century. Intelligence will power this one. We're building it where the energy already lives.

theblock.co

Bitcoin miner HIVE lines up $75 million note offering to fund AI infrastructure expansion

8:36 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 22.9K Views

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Mastercard partnered with Crossmint’s Lobster.cash to let AI agents execute card purchases, launching via early access on OpenClaw

Crossmint@crossmint

BIG NEWS: Your AI agents will soon be able to pay with your existing @Mastercard via lobstercash. Your card. Your agents. Your rules. Powered by Crossmint. 🧵

2:07 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 39.7K Views

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Sarah Wolf, first builder marketer at Coinbase and early Base lead, is leaving to join Anthropic to lead startup marketing

Sarah Wolf@sarahzorah

My time at @coinbase is coming to an end after nearly five years. These last few years have been an exciting chapter of my life and career. I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the smartest and most talented people I’ve ever met - not only at Coinbase, but across the

8:08 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 59.5K Views

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Teneo partnered with LayerZero to let AI agents bridge and swap tokens across 150+ blockchains

Teneo Protocol@teneo_protocol

Super excited to partner with @LayerZero_Core ⚡️ For the first time, AI agents can use LayerZero to bridge and swap tokens across 150+ blockchains. Enabled by Teneo’s agent infrastructure and LayerZero’s interoperability stack. See thread below ↓

3:00 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 18.5K Views

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Physical Intelligence released π0.7 robotics model showing emergent compositional generalization, including folding shirts on a new UR5e robot with no laundry training data

Physical Intelligence@physical_int

Our newest model, π0.7, has some interesting emergent capabilities: it can control a new robot to fold shirts for which we had no shirt folding data, figure out how to use an appliance with language-based coaching, and perform a wide range of dexterous tasks all in one model!

6:12 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 180K Views

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Slash raised $100M Series C at $1.4B valuation led by Ribbit Capital, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Goodwater, and launched Twin, an AI private banker