Ohio Constitutional Data Ban Follows Mills by Seventy-Two Hours
Maine signed a statute. Ohio is gathering signatures this weekend for a constitutional amendment that would bypass any legislature, forever. Federalism's AI cascade has a second rung.
David Chen
Bureau: Beijing
Anthropic's Two-Track Week — A Figma Board Exit, a Figma Replacement, and an Opus That Knows Too Much
In four days the company exited one company's board, launched a product against it, and shipped a capped model because the uncapped one finds zero-days.
Iran Restores Its Internet and Unit 42 Names a New Cluster Aimed at Allen-Bradley
The 47-day blackout ended Thursday. Hours later Unit 42 published a threat brief on CL-STA-1128, a new cluster targeting Rockwell Allen-Bradley PLCs. The blackout was preparation.
Beijing Stays Quiet as the Strait Reopens for Everyone Except Iran
The world's largest buyer of Iranian crude said almost nothing Friday as Hormuz reopened — the non-statement from the country with the most at stake is itself the statement.
Claude Opus 4.7 Lands, and r/ClaudeAI Goes 70 Percent Negative
Anthropic's new Opus 4.7 scored four points higher than 4.6 on the Artificial Analysis index, and three-quarters of its own subreddit said it felt worse to use.
ChatGPT Ads Cross Three More Borders in the Week the CEO's Home Was Attacked
OpenAI added Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to its ChatGPT ad pilot on April 16, the same week a molotov cocktail and a gunshot hit Sam Altman's San Francisco home.
Altman's Home Is Attacked Twice in Three Days as ChatGPT Goes International
A molotov cocktail Friday; a gunshot Sunday. In between, a New Yorker profile and the international ad rollout. The physical and political costs of monetization week arrived on schedule.