Stanford's 2026 AI Index has the receipts for what this year felt like: agents jumped from 12% to 66% on real computer tasks, the US–China gap narrowed to 2.7%, and the best coding models still can't read an analog clock.
On April 16, OpenAI shipped a Codex update that lets the agent see your Mac screen, move a cursor, and type across any app. This is the answer to Claude Cowork — and it reshapes the desktop-agent race.
Anubis claims 2 TB of patient data from Signature Healthcare's Brockton Hospital. Ambulances were diverted, chemo was canceled, and staff will be working off paper for two more weeks.
The IEA says Europe has maybe six weeks of jet fuel left. The warning checks out — and the same forces are already lifting US airfares, diesel, and LNG prices.
Most people still picture a browser and a chat window when they hear 'I used Claude.' That mental model is three years out of date.
Two months into pricing a small Enterprise AI plan with a HIPAA BAA, one vendor has answered cleanly, one has answered with meetings, and one hasn't answered at all.
Today's fifteen-minute Node 24 upgrade is a reminder that cloud applications carry a maintenance calendar whether you planned for one or not.
On April 15, NIST announced that the National Vulnerability Database will only enrich CVEs that affect federal software, critical infrastructure, or vulnerabilities CISA already sees being exploited. Everything else gets filed as 'Not Scheduled.' The quiet consequence: the vulnerability scanners your organization relies on may start missing things — and showing green anyway.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today — better coding, sharper vision, a model that checks its own work. Its best model still isn't shipping.
Between April 5 and April 7, two unrelated supply chain attacks compromised WordPress sites through the one channel admins are trained to trust: plugin updates. One hijacked Nextend's update servers to push a weaponized Smart Slider 3 Pro build to 800,000+ installations. The other activated dormant backdoors in 30+ plugins an attacker had quietly purchased on Flippa a year earlier.