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Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

The Next Web

Mermaid review: An even freakier version of The Shape of Water with a potent message

Polygon - All

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

Techmeme

James Bond game 007 First Light hit with a delay on Switch 2

Polygon - All

Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Techmeme

Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG gets hardcover rulebook from Dark Horse

Polygon - All

The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery

The Verge - All Posts

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

The Next Web

Lookonchain: three anonymous Polymarket wallets made well-timed Iran ceasefire wagers, netting $480K+ in profits; a $60M April 7 contract remains under dispute (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Pokémon Champions shakes up the competitive scene with short list of items and monsters

Polygon - All

Black Sails, the revolutionary pirate show that changed Treasure Island, leaves Netflix next week

Polygon - All

An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Ten years ago, Karyn Kusama delivered a chillingly prescient cult classic with The Invitation

Polygon - All

AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Techmeme

The vibes are off at OpenAI

The Verge - All Posts

The Alien 3 Assembly Cut is finally on HBO Max — is it worth watching?

Polygon - All

Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Techmeme

Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Techmeme

X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Samson hands-on impressions: a boring, bland, and broken GTA clone

Polygon - All