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**🤖**** New Yorker digs into Sam Altman with 18-month investigation** New Yorker [published](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted) a 40-page investigation based on internal documents, notes from Ilya Sutskever, 200 pages from Dario Amodei, and 100+ interviews. The piece describes multiple cases where Altman gave incorrect information to the board and colleagues, including safety approvals that did not exist and legal opinions that we

📱 **Meta launches Muse Spark as first model from new Superintelligence Labs** Meta released Muse Spark as part of a broader rebuild of its AI efforts, led by Alexandr Wang after a $14.3B investment in Scale AI. The model is already available on the web and in the Meta AI app. Muse Spark uses multiple agents working in parallel to solve complex tasks in a planned Contemplating mode. It performs well on visual STEM tasks and is positioned for use cases like health queries and interactive problem

🔍 **NYT points to Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto in new investigation** The New York Times published a longread arguing that Bitcoin’s creator may be British cryptographer Adam Back. The case is built on linguistic patterns, forum activity timelines, and early work that outlined key ideas behind Bitcoin. The article highlights matching writing quirks, similar views on spam, and Back’s absence from Bitcoin discussions until 2011, right when Satoshi disappeared. It also notes a later message f

**🛡**** Anthropic says Claude Mythos found thousands of zero-day bugs across major systems** Anthropic reports its unreleased model Claude Mythos discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems and browsers within days, working largely автономously. Examples include a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD enabling remote crashes, a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg missed by millions of test runs, and a Linux kernel exploit chain giving full server control. The company says the model can

**🤖**** OpenAI holds back Spud model, limits access to select companies** OpenAI is finishing a new model called Spud but will not release it broadly. Access is expected to be restricted to a small group of companies due to concerns around autonomy and cyber capabilities. Earlier reports said the model was strong enough to trigger internal changes. OpenAI created a new AGI Deployment unit to handle how Spud is used in products, replacing parts of the product integrations team. The company is