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Anthropic Unveils Claude Mythos — and Locks It Behind a 50-Company Firewall
Anthropic has revealed Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model designed specifically for cybersecurity. In testing, the model autonomously discovered thousands of previously unknown “zero-day” vulnerabilities (security holes that nobody knew existed) across major operating systems and browsers. Rather than releasing it broadly, Anthropic is deploying it through “Project Glasswing,” a limited partnership program with over 40 companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks. The idea: let companies use Mythos to scan their own infrastructure for weaknesses before bad actors can exploit the model’s capabilities. It’s one of the clearest examples yet of a major AI lab treating its own model as too powerful for general release.
Cloudflare Launches Agent Cloud with OpenAI, Bringing AI Agents to Enterprise Scale
Cloudflare expanded its Agent Cloud platform on April 13, announcing a suite of infrastructure tools that help AI agents move from experimental demos to production-grade enterprise workloads. The centerpiece is deep integration with OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex, letting developers deploy agents that can run complex, multi-step tasks at scale across Cloudflare’s global network. New features include “Dynamic Workers” (secure sandboxed environments that spin up in milliseconds when an agent needs to run code), the “Think Framework” (for agents that handle long-running tasks rather than single-prompt responses), and “Artifacts” (a Git-compatible storage system for agent-generated code and files). This is a big step toward AI agents becoming ordinary business tools rather than lab curiosities.
Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Designs, Powered by Siri and Google Gemini
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported that Apple is actively testing four different frame designs for its first AI-powered smart glasses, targeting production in December 2026 and a public launch in spring or summer 2027. The frames include Wayfarer-style rectangles, slimmer rectangles similar to those Tim Cook wears, and two oval variants, all made from acetate rather than standard plastic. There’s no display in the first version — instead, the primary interface is a revamped Siri powered partly by a custom Gemini model developed through Apple’s partnership with Google. The glasses will handle notifications, calls, live translation, and visual questions about your surroundings. Two cameras are included: one for photos/video, one for computer vision.
Stanford’s AI Index: Adoption Outpacing PCs and the Internet
MIT Technology Review published a deep analysis on April 13 drawing on Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, showing that people are adopting AI faster than they adopted the personal computer or the internet. The US and China are nearly neck and neck on model performance, with Anthropic leading as of March 2026, followed closely by xAI, Google, and OpenAI, while Chinese models like DeepSeek and Alibaba trail only modestly. AI companies are generating revenue faster than any previous technology boom — but they’re also spending hundreds of billions on data centers and chips. The benchmarks designed to measure AI, the policies meant to govern it, and the job market are all struggling to keep pace.
Claude Code Gets Ultraplan: Planning Moves to the Cloud
Anthropic launched “Ultraplan” for Claude Code on April 11, a feature that moves the planning phase of coding tasks from your local terminal to a cloud-based web interface. Developers start a planning job, Claude works out the plan on the web, and the terminal stays free for other work. The browser interface supports inline comments, emoji reactions, and revision requests on individual sections of a plan. Once approved, the plan can be executed either in the browser or back in the terminal. It requires Claude Code version 2.1.91+ and a Claude Code web account. This is especially relevant because it shows Anthropic steadily making Claude Code more collaborative and less of a solo-developer tool.
AI News Roundup
Inoreader AI Folder
AI Doomsday Cultist Throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s House
David Gerard reports on the Friday morning incident in San Francisco where someone threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s residence. The device bounced off the house and set a front gate on fire. Police are seeking the individual, described as being motivated by extreme AI doomerism.
Data to Start Your Week — The Jet Fuel Inflection Point
Azeem Azhar’s data-focused edition examines how six weeks of Middle East conflict have devastated lives and disrupted global oil markets, with the aviation industry especially hard hit. The analysis explores the inflection point for jet fuel prices and broader economic shockwaves. Not AI-specific, but relevant macro context for tech markets.
Enterprises Power Agentic Workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI
OpenAI’s official announcement of the Cloudflare Agent Cloud partnership, detailing how GPT-5.4 and Codex are being integrated into Cloudflare’s infrastructure to enable enterprise-scale AI agents. Includes details on Dynamic Workers, the Think Framework for multi-step tasks, and the new Artifacts storage system.
Claude Code Introduces Ultraplan
Coverage of Anthropic’s new Ultraplan feature for Claude Code, which moves coding task planning to the cloud. Developers can start a planning job in the terminal, review and comment on the plan in a web interface, then execute it from either the browser or the terminal. Requires Claude Code v2.1.91+ and a web account.
The Prompt That Makes AI Sound Like You
A practical guide to crafting prompts that capture your personal writing voice and style when working with AI assistants. Useful for anyone managing communications or content creation — the technique involves feeding the AI samples of your writing and asking it to extract and replicate your patterns.
Claude Has Once Again Stolen the AI Crown!
Analysis of Anthropic’s recent model performance leadership, with Claude topping multiple benchmarks. Also covers Apple’s smart glasses prototypes and their AI integration, calling it a sign that AI is moving from screens to faces.
Open Up: CoreWeave’s Magic Order Book and OpenAI Needs Ads to Work
Examines CoreWeave’s growing AI infrastructure business and the increasing pressure on OpenAI to make advertising revenue work alongside its subscription model. Also includes a practical tip on reducing Claude token usage.
Bad News, Philosophy Majors
Covers several stories including Claude’s integration into Microsoft Word, the evolving AI coding stack, and Scale AI’s gig worker operations. The “philosophy majors” hook refers to AI’s growing capability in reasoning and argumentation — traditionally human-dominated territory.
I’m Unlocking My Most Popular Paid Post for You
The AI Maker newsletter is unlocking its most popular paid post for free subscribers, offering access to practical AI building and workflow content. Worth checking if you missed the original.
Do You Have the Wrong Degree?
Commentary on how AI is reshaping which educational backgrounds and skills are most valued in the job market, exploring whether traditional degree paths still align with the demands of an AI-augmented workplace.
We Gave an AI a 3-Year Lease. It Opened a Store.
A fascinating account of an experiment in AI autonomy: an AI agent was given a physical retail lease and proceeded to open and operate a store. The piece explores questions about AI agency, legal personhood, and what happens when autonomous systems operate in the physical world.
Substack Highlights
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AI Workflows & Tool Watch
Zoom MCP Connector for Claude Cowork Now Live
Zoom launched an official MCP connector that brings meeting intelligence directly into Claude Cowork and Claude Code. You can now query meeting summaries, transcripts, and action items from within Claude — no more switching between apps to find what was discussed. This is a game-changer for anyone managing meetings across time zones.
Claude Cowork Goes GA with Enterprise Features
Claude Cowork has dropped the “research preview” label and is now generally available, with Windows support added April 3. New enterprise features include role-based access controls, group spend limits, and usage analytics. New MCP connectors were shipped for Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, DocuSign, WordPress, and many others — meaning Claude can now directly interact with more of the tools your team already uses.
Claude Code Ultraplan: Collaborative Planning in the Cloud
Anthropic’s new Ultraplan feature lets you start a coding plan in the terminal, then review and refine it in a rich web interface while your terminal stays free for other work. The web interface supports inline comments and revision requests. Even if you’re not writing code yourself, this is the direction Claude is heading: more collaborative, more visual, more asynchronous.
n8n + Obsidian: Agentic Note Sorting Overnight
A community member built a local AI agent using n8n that automatically sorts fleeting notes in Obsidian overnight. You jot quick notes throughout the day, and the agent categorizes, tags, and files them while you sleep. The workflow uses context engineering to understand your note structure and filing preferences. Could be adapted for any note-taking workflow.
Claude Managed Agents: New API for Cloud-Hosted Agent Fleets
Anthropic launched a public beta of “Claude Managed Agents” — composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale. Think of it as a way to create specialized AI workers for different tasks (research, scheduling, monitoring) and manage them as a fleet. This is aimed at developers but signals where enterprise AI assistants are heading.
MCP Tool Search: 95% Reduction in Context Usage
Claude Code’s MCP Tool Search feature now supports “lazy loading” for MCP servers — meaning it only loads the tools you actually need rather than everything at once. This reduces context usage (the amount of information Claude has to hold in memory) by up to 95%, making Claude faster and cheaper when you have many integrations connected. If you use Claude Code with multiple MCP servers, this is a meaningful quality-of-life improvement.
Tencent Mentions
Hunyuan 3.0 Launch Underway
Tencent’s Hunyuan 3.0 language model launch is proceeding this month as planned, with approximately 30 billion parameters. Chief AI Scientist Vinces Yao Shunyu has been leading the development. The model is part of Tencent’s broader push into AI agents, with integration planned for WeChat and enterprise products.
AI Agent Strategy: “Tencent Sees Its Edge”
Caixin Global published an in-depth feature on April 3 examining Tencent’s AI agent strategy. The company launched enterprise WorkBuddy, integrated OpenClaw into QQ and WeCom, and released QClaw for WeChat. The piece positions Tencent’s massive user base across WeChat, QQ, and enterprise tools as its key advantage in the AI agent race.
AI Compute Price Hikes Across China
TrendForce reported on April 10 that Tencent Cloud is joining Alibaba, Baidu, and Zhipu in raising AI compute prices. Tencent’s container services and EMR products will see approximately 5% price increases starting May 9, 2026 — reflecting surging demand for AI infrastructure across the Chinese tech industry.
WeChat Cracks Down on AI-Generated Content
WeChat updated its content governance rules to ban non-human automated publishing, including AI-generated content. Official accounts can no longer use AI or scripts to replace human involvement in content production. This is a significant policy move — essentially drawing a line between AI-assisted and AI-replaced content creation on the platform.
AI Running Communities on QQ
Tencent introduced “Channels Skill” for QQ, letting AI assistants interact directly with Tencent Channels and carry out tasks inside online communities. WinBuzzer reported this as Tencent testing a new model where AI doesn’t just assist users but actively manages community functions.