AI News. April 8, 2026

Z AI released GLM-5.1, claiming no1 open-source and no3 global ranking across SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and NL2Repo

Z.ai@Zai_org

Introducing GLM-5.1: The Next Level of Open Source - Top-Tier Performance: #1 in open source and #3 globally across SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and NL2Repo. - Built for Long-Horizon Tasks: Runs autonomously for 8 hours, refining strategies through thousands of iterations.

4:14 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 2.54M Views

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Anthropic is working on adding Conway, an always-on background agent, to its mobile app

TestingCatalog News 🗞@testingcatalog

BREAKING 🚨: Anthropic is working on adding Claude Conway always-on agent to its mobile app. This means that we potentially may see a consumer version too! Soon? 👀

TestingCatalog News 🗞 @testingcatalog

BREAKING 🚨: ANTHROPIC IS WORKING ON ITS OWN ALWAYS-ON AGENT SOLUTION CALLED CONWAY! CONWAY WILL HAVE A SEPARATE UI INSTANCE, WILL BE ABLE TO OPERATE BROWSER, CONNECTORS, CLAUDE CODE (EPITAXY?) AND COULD BE INVOKED VIA WEBHOOKS. IT WILL ALSO SUPPORT EXTENSIONS, AN UPCOMING CNW

3:14 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 59.7K Views

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Intel joins Terafab alongside SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to build a chip fab targeting 1 TW/year of compute for AI and robotics

Intel@intel

Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xai, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology. Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power

1:00 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 23.6M Views

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ERC-7715 is now live on Polygon, letting dApps and agents request scoped, time-bound permissions from MetaMask without requiring repeated transaction signatures

Polygon | POL@0xPolygon

ERC-7715 is now live on Polygon. Builders can now request scoped permissions from @MetaMask, unlocking new permission models for agents and dApps 🦊

MetaMask Developer @MetaMaskDev

If you've ever used a Web3 wallet, you know the drill... Constant pop-ups, repeated approvals, switching back and forth just to get one thing done. Advanced Permissions change all of that. Now live on @MetaMask. 🦊 Instead of signing every transaction, Advanced Permissions

4:14 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 13.6K Views

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Exa’s search API adds support for x402, allowing AI agents to pay for web search directly in USDC via Coinbase’s open HTTP payment protocol without requiring API keys or human setup

Exa@ExaAILabs

We're excited to partner with @coinbase to enable agents to natively pay for web search, via x402! x402 is an open protocol that enables agents to pay via HTTP, governed by the Linux Foundation. When an Exa API request is made without an API key, Exa now returns a 402 status

5:01 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 168K Views

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Anthropic launched Project Glasswing alongside AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, JPMorganChase, NVIDIA and others to secure critical software infrastructure, backed by $100M in usage credits and $4M in donations to open-source security orgs; powered by a new unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.

anthropic.com

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

6:06 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 15M Views

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Nous Research partnered with Xiaomi to bring MiMo V2 Pro model to Hermes Agent via the Nous Portal, free for 2 weeks

Nous Research@NousResearch

We have partnered with @Xiaomi to bring their excellent MiMo V2 Pro model to Hermes Agent via the Nous Portal - completely free to use for the next 2 weeks! Access now on the latest version of Hermes Agent: 'hermes update'

6:15 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 634K Views

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OpenAI retiring 6 older Codex models on April 14 for ChatGPT sign-in users, including gpt-5, gpt-5.1, and gpt-5.2-codex, keeping gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.3-codex-spark (Pro only), and gpt-5.2​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs

We’re retiring older models in Codex when you sign in to Codex with your ChatGPT account on April 14: • gpt-5.2-codex • gpt-5.1-codex-mini • gpt-5.1-codex-max • gpt-5.1-codex • gpt-5.1 • gpt-5

8:16 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 252K Views

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