TLDR 2026-04-08

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Anthropic claims its new Claude Mythos Preview model is too powerful to be released to the public. The model specializes in identifying security vulnerabilities in software. Anthropic is making the model available to more than 40 technology companies to use to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software programs. The move is aimed at raising awareness of AI threats and giving good actors a head start on the process of securing their code.

Intel has partnered with SpaceX and Tesla to work on Elon Musk's Terafab project. Intel will design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale. Terafab will make chips for use in Tesla's robotaxis and Optimus humanoid robots. It will also make chips optimized for use in space.

Intel's Fab 9 and Fab 11X are critical infrastructure for the company's fast-growing advanced chip packaging business. Packaging involves combining multiple chiplets onto a single custom chip. Nearly every major tech company is considering or is already making custom chips as AI is driving demand for all kinds of computing power. Intel is reportedly in ongoing talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services.

The Orion spacecraft has performed well since its launch last week. The crew looped behind the Moon on Monday. They reached their closest point to the lunar surface at a distance of 4,067 miles at 7 PM EDT. The Artemis II mission reached its most distant point from Earth at a range of 252,756 miles, a new record for the farthest anyone has traveled into space.

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S3 Files lets developers mount any S3 bucket or prefix as a filesystem on an EC2 instance, container, or Lambda function. It is backed by EFS, which provides the tools developers already expect. From an application's perspective, S3 files is a mounted directory, but from S3's perspective, the data is objects in a bucket.

The current most effective way to build software and get massive adoption is to create building blocks that enable and encourage others to build quantity over quality. This will ultimately lead to better mainline software. Agents readily pick open and free software over closed and commercial. Closed-source, commercial software is at a massive disadvantage.

Anthropic has partnered with several cybersecurity companies to fix zero-day exploits found by Claude Mythos. The New Yorker recently published a massive article about Sam Altman and his lack of trustworthiness. OpenAI recently proposed policy for the age of superintelligence. The company has purchased tech show TBPN, and while everyone vows that it will stay the same, that's unlikely to happen. This article gets into the details of each story.

Competent output is now cheap thanks to AI. This gives people who can tell what's generic, what's true, and what's worth pushing further an advantage. Taste is a side-effect of paying close attention to reality. Combine taste with context, constraints, and the willingness to build something different from the average.

The tab layout can be changed by right-clicking on any Chrome window and choosing the 'Show Tabs Vertically' option.

Production has yet to ramp up, which means the timing isn't final.

The official EPA range estimate for the R2 is 335 miles when fitted with 12-inch wheels, and 314 miles when fitted with 20-inch wheels.

Mechanical sympathy is the practice of creating software that is sympathetic to its underlying hardware.

Impeccable is a set of AI skills that provides the design vocabulary required to create great design prompts.

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Scion is a multi-agent orchestrator designed to manage deep agents in isolated containers so they can work on different parts of projects without stepping on each other.