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MeitY examines action against Kalshi, Polymarket amid rise in election and sports prediction betting
Government says offshore prediction platforms face restrictions under online gaming rules; VPN use complicates enforcement. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is evaluating potential regulatory action against offshore prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, following a rise in their use for speculative betting on events including elections and sporting tournaments like the Indian Premier League. Speaking on April 22, IT Secretary S. Krishnan said the government has been monitoring instances of Indian users accessing such platforms despite existing restrictions. He noted that action has been taken whenever specific reports have been brought to the ministry's attention. According to officials, platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket are considered to fall within the scope of India's online gaming and betting restrictions under the current legal framework. The IT ministry also notified the rules under the Online Gaming Act on April 22, reinforcing the regulatory stance. Also read: Breaking: MeitY outlines lighter regulatory framework for online games; determination not mandatory for most titles However, enforcement continues to face operational challenges. Users are reportedly accessing these platforms through virtual private networks (VPNs), making direct blocking and monitoring difficult. Krishnan acknowledged this complexity, stating that while VPNs themselves are not illegal, their use in bypassing restrictions poses regulatory concerns. He described the situation as a "whack-a-mole" problem, with restricted platforms resurfacing through mirror websites, alternate domains, and encrypted access routes even after enforcement action. Also read: MIB issues advisory on IPTV self-declaration process, warns against intermediaries The renewed scrutiny comes as prediction markets gain traction among Indian users, particularly for high-engagement events such as elections and major sports fixtures, raising concerns around speculative betting activity operating outside domestic regulatory oversight.
India cracks down on Kalshi, Polymarket as election betting surges
New Delhi: India is tightening its grip on offshore prediction market apps as election betting activity surges. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is currently considering potential action against sites such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which are rapidly gaining access to Indian users against regulatory provisions. According to the officials, these platforms are being used in speculative betting on elections and sporting events, such as the Indian Premier League. The increased usage has seen the government worried, particularly as users are going around restrictions using VPNs and other payment systems. Government flags legal violations and rising usage The government has been vigilant of such platforms, according to what IT secretary S Krishnan said on April 22. He attested that the authorities have acted whenever violations have been reported. The authorities insist that offshore prediction market apps do not qualify to be under the law of online gaming in India. The new regulations announced under the Online Gaming Act support the government in its position that such betting sites could not be legal in the country. VPN access creates enforcement challenges Regulatory action has been taken, but the enforcement is a significant challenge. The users still access these sites and use VPNs to access them, and authorities find it hard to block them successfully. Krishnan admitted that the situation is not so simple because the use of VPN in itself is not considered illegal. This leaves a grey area in which enforcement is technically and legally difficult. Authorities are currently looking into the possibility of intervening without crossing the line of law. "Whack-a-Mole" problem for regulators The government has termed the situation as 'whack-a-mole'. New mirror sites or alternative access points are promptly created even in cases where one domain or app is blocked. Coded channels, as well as changing modes of payments, complicate the process of tracking and enforcement even more. According to authorities, this reoccurrence is constant, and hence it is hard to exercise consistent control over such platforms. The re-examination is after prediction markets have become popular among Indian users. The election and other high-stakes events such as sports tournaments are encouraging traffic on these platforms. Analysts think that the ease of access, anonymity and real-time betting potential have helped in their popularity. Nonetheless, regulators are adamant that these activities are against the existing laws of online gaming in India and will be subject to further investigation.
Why Anthropic's Mythos is sparking global alarm
DeeperDive is a beta AI feature. Refer to full articles for the facts. Anthropic PBC has said its new artificial intelligence tool, Mythos, is too powerful to release to the general public. The AI giant has described the model as so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it will only be released to a limited number of carefully chosen parties. If tools like Mythos fall into the wrong hands, Anthropic says, it could provide attackers with a powerful new weapon to steal data or disrupt critical infrastructure. That risk was underscored when a small group of unauthorised users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation viewed by Bloomberg News. The group gained access on the same day that Anthropic first announced its plan to release the model to a handful of companies for testing purposes. For the last several years, cybersecurity companies have promised that artificial intelligence will speed up and automate some of the work of preventing digital breaches. But hackers and cyberspies have discovered the advantages of AI too. The advent of Mythos and models like it that can exploit well-hidden flaws in popular software without human supervision points to a faster-moving, less predictable phase of the cyber arms race. Claude Mythos Preview is a general purpose AI model that Anthropic says significantly outperforms prior offerings on a range of benchmarks, including for coding and reasoning. The company explained that some AI models have reached a level of coding capability that allows them to beat all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview has already found thousands of "zero-day" vulnerabilities during testing, including in every major operating system and every major web browser. "Zero days" are flaws that were previously unknown to the software's developers - the name implying they have zero days to come up with a patch to resolve the problem. These often represent a gold mine for hackers because they offer a window of free rein inside vulnerable systems. Mythos was able to identify these with even less human intervention than past models, Anthropic said. "Mythos Preview demonstrates a leap in these cyber skills - the vulnerabilities it has spotted have in some cases survived decades of human review and millions of automated security tests," the company said. In the hands of a ransomware gang or hostile governments, such a tool could lead to more devastating and frequent cyberattacks. Researchers say they have not been given access to independently verify Anthropic's claims about Mythos's performance. Associate professor of computer science Gang Wang at the University of Illinois said it is hard to assess the significance of Mythos Preview without more hands-on testing. Anthropic is calling its plan to grant access to a limited group of vetted partners Project Glasswing, after a type of butterfly with transparent wings that allow it to hide in plain sight. The participants include Amazon, Apple, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Holdings, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, JPMorganChase and the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit that supports open-source software projects. Anthropic described the project as "an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes". These organisations will use Mythos as part of their defensive security work, and Anthropic plans to share the findings of the project so others can benefit. Many companies already use so-called penetration exercises, in which they hire specialists to probe their systems for bugs so they can fix them before hackers get in. Mythos could allow companies to turbocharge that process, allowing them to find more flaws more quickly and narrow the opportunities for potential attacks. Anthropic described Mythos Preview as "a watershed moment for security." By their nature, zero-day vulnerabilities are difficult to find, and a small and murky industry has been built around finding them and selling them to government intelligence agencies, often for millions of dollars. According to Anthropic, the vulnerabilities Mythos Preview found were often "subtle and difficult to detect" and included a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, an operating system that Anthropic says has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened in the world. Mythos was also allegedly able to turn vulnerabilities that are known but not widely patched into "exploits" that hackers could use to infiltrate computer networks. For instance, it found and chained together several flaws in the Linux kernel - the core of the operating system and software that runs most of the world's internet servers - to allow an attacker to take complete control of the machine. Non-experts also asked Mythos Preview to find ways to remotely take control of computers overnight and came back the next morning to a complete, working exploit, Anthropic said. Mythos is one of several new AI tools able to find zero days or build exploits. OpenAI's Codex Security and Google's "Big Sleep agent" have been developed to find vulnerabilities. OpenAI is also finalising a product with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it intends to release to select partners, Axios reported. Researchers at an Israeli cybersecurity startup called Buzz, meanwhile, say they have built an autonomous tool combining five AI agents that has a 98 per cent success rate in exploiting known flaws. The safeguards are a work in progress, according to Anthropic. "We have seen it reach unprecedented levels of reliability and alignment," Anthropic wrote, meaning it aligns with what humans want. "However, on rare occasions when it does fail or act strangely, we have seen it take actions that we find quite concerning." In one instance, a researcher urged an early version of Mythos to try to escape a secured, isolated "sandbox" computer and then find a way to send a message to that person. The tool succeeded but then continued to take "additional, more concerning actions", developing a multistep exploit to gain internet access. Anthropic said it does not plan to make Mythos Preview generally available, given its potential for misuse. Still, the company ultimately hopes to enable users to deploy "Mythos-class models" at scale for cybersecurity purposes and other uses. "To do so, we need to make progress in developing cybersecurity (and other) safeguards that detect and block the model's most dangerous outputs," it said. For the highest severity bugs found by Mythos, humans are involved: Specialists validate those discoveries before sending the information on to the people who maintain the code, according to Anthropic. It is a necessary but time-consuming process, but one that may eventually be eliminated as the model improves, the University of Illinois' Dr Wang said. Maybe, but it might take a while. Anthropic's process for disclosing flaws to the people who maintain the software or computer systems can be lengthy. So far, less than 1 per cent of the potential vulnerabilities Mythos Preview has uncovered have been fully patched, the company said. At the same time, hackers are using AI to dramatically speed up how quickly they find and exploit vulnerabilities once they are disclosed. Vendors are encouraged, and in some cases required, to publicly disclose vulnerabilities once they are discovered, and ideally provide a fix. This gives cyber professionals less and less time to patch their networks. In a March 30 blog post, Palo Alto Networks Chief Executive Officer Nikesh Arora warned that the barrier for sophisticated attacks will continue to diminish over the next six months. "A single bad actor will now be able to run campaigns that required entire teams," he wrote. Buzz's chief executive officer Yair Saban, a veteran of Israel's Unit 8200 cyber unit, said it took six engineers three weeks to build their AI-powered hacking tool. Others, including nation-state cyber spies and criminal hackers, can surely do the same, he said. Anthropic maintains that Mythos Preview and other AI tools like it will ultimately favour defenders. "In the long run, we expect that defence capabilities will dominate: That the world will emerge more secure, with software better hardened - in large part by code written by these models," the company's Frontier Red Team said in an April 7 blog. "But the transitional period will be fraught." BLOOMBERG
What Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD and other top American technology companies are spending millions on in Washington for
Top US technology companies including Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic are now spending millions on lobbying, a sharp rise compared to previous years, reported Axios. The increased spending comes as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a key policy issue. As per the report, these firms are engaging with lawmakers on topics such as AI regulation, national security and infrastructure. A sharp 'competition' in lobby spending can be seen between Anthropic and OpenAI who "hardly spent time in Washington just years ago" are now "joining the ranks of more seasoned tech companies shelling out millions". As per the report, Anthropic spent $1.6 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2026, up from $360,000 in the same period last year. OpenAI spent $1 million, compared to $560,000 a year earlier.Despite the rise in AI firms' spending, larger companies continue to dominate lobbying. As per the data cited by Axios, Meta spent $7.1 million in the first quarter of 2026, leading the overall spend. It is followed by Amazon at $4.4 million and Google at $2.9 million.Other companies such as Microsoft also remained active in policy discussions during the period. "Both AMD and Nvidia lobbied on export control rule changes and kept spending steady from last year's levels," the report said. In addition, industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition increased their spending, reflecting growing interest in infrastructure needed to support AI systems.According to filings, companies are focusing on a wide range of topics. Anthropic discussed AI procurement, national security, export controls and supply chain risks with lawmakers. The company has also been involved in discussions related to its policies on how AI systems should be used.OpenAI, in its most expensive lobbying quarter so far, raised issues around AI and copyright, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and computing systems. Meanwhile, Meta and Google focused on data privacy, encryption, cross-border data flows and child safety laws. Microsoft discussed areas such as AI in education, digital trade, cloud services and software patents.
Anthropic Slams Hegseth's Security Risk Label At DC Circ. - Law360
By Lauren Berg ( April 22, 2026, 11:41 PM EDT) -- Anthropic Wednesday asked the D.C. Circuit to overturn the U.S. Department of Defense's action branding it a supply chain risk, saying the decision was retaliation for the artificial intelligence company's refusal to provide the Trump administration with technology for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons....
Microsoft to integrate Anthropic's Mythos into its security development program
Microsoft is integrating Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview AI into its secure coding framework to accelerate vulnerability identification and remediation. This advanced AI has already discovered thousands of major vulnerabilities, offering a powerful new tool for cybersecurity. The integration aims to bolster Microsoft's defenses by leveraging Mythos's high-level coding capabilities for proactive security. April 22 - Microsoft said on Wednesday it plans to embed advanced artificial intelligence models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, into its secure coding framework, as the company steps up its cybersecurity capabilities. Incorporating the models into Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) will help identify vulnerabilities and develop fixes faster, early on in the cycle, the Windows maker said in a blog. Mythos, announced on April 7, has found "thousands" of major vulnerabilities in operating systems, web browsers and other software. Its capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts said.
Microsoft almost fought SpaceX for Cursor in a massive $60 billion AI showdown
Internal sources claim Microsoft considered bidding for the AI-powered IDE before SpaceX secured a multi-billion dollar acquisition option. Neowin reported yesterday that SpaceX had gained the rights to buy the AI-powered IDE, Cursor, for $60 billion later this year. Now, it has come to light that Microsoft was also looking at a potential deal to pick up the AI startup, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. In a CNBC report, it is claimed that Microsoft was considering buying Cursor, but that it decided not to proceed with the bid, according to one of the two sources. CNBC didn't name either of the people reporting this because these conversations were held behind closed doors and the sources shouldn't be speaking publicly. The fact that Microsoft was thinking of acquiring the IDE company is peculiar given that it already owns GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code, which is a competing product. The Redmond giant may have anticipated criticism from regulators or SpaceX may have offered a better deal to Cursor. SpaceX revealed on X that this week that it was now working closely with Cursor to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI". It also has the option to buy Cursor later in the year for $60 billion. According to CNBC, SpaceX made its the deal at a late stage in Cursor's most recent fundraising round, which has apparently caught prospective investors off guard. If SpaceX does acquire the company it will put it in a more competitive position against the likes of Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, which each have coding tools like Antigravity, Codex, and Claude Code.
Anthropic's dangerous AI Mythos: Unauthorized access likely since day one
Anthropic's most powerful AI is said to be so dangerous that only selected companies have access. Unknown individuals reportedly bypassed this, a report states. A group of individuals has allegedly gained unauthorized access to Anthropic's powerful and downright dangerous AI model Claude Mythos Preview without the AI company noticing. This is reported by the financial news agency Bloomberg, which was shown the use of the tool. The unknown individuals are reportedly communicating in a private Discord channel and are individuals who have previously focused on searching for unpublished AI models. Mythos was not used by them for tasks related to cybersecurity; instead, they are testing how the AI model performs on harmless tasks - for example, building a website. Anthropic introduced Mythos two weeks ago and stated that the model is so dangerous that it is only made available to companies working on IT security. The AI model has already identified thousands of high-risk zero-day vulnerabilities, including in all major operating systems and every internet browser. At the same time, the AI technology is significantly more capable of developing a working exploit for such vulnerabilities, sometimes even using multiple in conjunction. As part of "Project Glasswing", the industry is now to work on patching vulnerabilities found this way before other AI models become available, with which criminals can also find and, above all, exploit vulnerabilities much more easily. Unauthorized access to Mythos was obtained according to Bloomberg on the very day Anthropic introduced the AI tool. The group used various tactics, with one person posing as an employee of a service provider to gain access to Anthropic's tools. Previously, the group had made an "educated guess" about Mythos's internet address - based on other Anthropic URLs. The unknown individuals have been using Mythos regularly since then, just like other AI models before. However, their intention is not "not wreaking havoc with them". Bloomberg consistently refers to one of the individuals for the report, who is kept anonymous. Anthropic has reportedly pledged to investigate the claim, while downplaying the extent of the access. There are no indications that the access went beyond a third-party environment or had any impact on its systems. The discovery suggests how difficult it may be for the company to keep access to Mythos under wraps. The AI model was described at its introduction as so powerful that it not only alarmed the IT security industry. Governments in more and more countries are grappling with the significance of the new tool, and checks have been ordered, especially in the financial industry. If Mythos falls into the wrong hands, the consequences for cybersecurity could be devastating.
Big tech AI lobbying surges: Google, Meta, OpenAI & Anthropic spend millions on policy
Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon are significantly boosting lobbying efforts, spending millions as Artificial Intelligence becomes a major policy focus. Newcomers Anthropic and OpenAI are also dramatically increasing their Washington presence. Discussions with lawmakers cover AI regulation, national security, and infrastructure needs, highlighting intense competition in shaping future tech policies. Top US technology companies including Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic are now spending millions on lobbying, a sharp rise compared to previous years, reported Axios. The increased spending comes as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a key policy issue. As per the report, these firms are engaging with lawmakers on topics such as AI regulation, national security and infrastructure. A sharp 'competition' in lobby spending can be seen between Anthropic and OpenAI who "hardly spent time in Washington just years ago" are now "joining the ranks of more seasoned tech companies shelling out millions". How much Anthropic, OpenAI spent on lobbying As per the report, Anthropic spent $1.6 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2026, up from $360,000 in the same period last year. OpenAI spent $1 million, compared to $560,000 a year earlier. Meta tops big tech lobbying spending Despite the rise in AI firms' spending, larger companies continue to dominate lobbying. As per the data cited by Axios, Meta spent $7.1 million in the first quarter of 2026, leading the overall spend. It is followed by Amazon at $4.4 million and Google at $2.9 million. Other companies such as Microsoft also remained active in policy discussions during the period. "Both AMD and Nvidia lobbied on export control rule changes and kept spending steady from last year's levels," the report said. In addition, industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition increased their spending, reflecting growing interest in infrastructure needed to support AI systems. Key issues discussed with lawmakers According to filings, companies are focusing on a wide range of topics. Anthropic discussed AI procurement, national security, export controls and supply chain risks with lawmakers. The company has also been involved in discussions related to its policies on how AI systems should be used. OpenAI, in its most expensive lobbying quarter so far, raised issues around AI and copyright, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and computing systems. Meanwhile, Meta and Google focused on data privacy, encryption, cross-border data flows and child safety laws. Microsoft discussed areas such as AI in education, digital trade, cloud services and software patents.
SpaceX and Tesla are on an inevitable collision course
If rocketmaker SpaceX indeed goes public in June, as seems to be its plan, Elon Musk could be conducting quarterly earnings calls for two companies. But how long until that reverts to one? On Wednesday afternoon, the world's richest man hosted the first-quarter call for Tesla, his electric-vehicle maker. Sales of automobiles, which grew 16 per cent year on year, were hardly discussed. Instead, the company is focused on energy storage, robotaxis and Optimus, its "bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks". If Tesla increasingly feels like a science project, all the more reason to think its natural home is under one roof with SpaceX, which last year merged with Musk's social network and AI company xAI. SpaceX is set to list at what could be a near-$2tn valuation. Already, Musk spreads his busy days and presumably sleepless nights across his various projects, so a Tesla-SpaceX combination might just codify reality. The possibly sidelined electric-vehicle business still generates serious cash flow, even if sales have moderated from historic levels and factories are being retrofitted for robot production. Selling cars drove operating cash flow of $4bn and free cash flow of $1.4bn in the quarter, enough that the company decided to spend $2bn on SpaceX stock. That, though, is peanuts compared with the $25bn in capital expenditure that Musk and his chief financial officer warned the company would spend in total this year on semiconductor production and robot factories. Analysts were expecting $20bn, according to LSEG. A year ago, they had been forecasting just $11bn for the whole of 2026. Nonetheless, the shares hardly moved on Wednesday in after-market trading. Even that capital expenditure is, in turn, peanuts compared with the $60bn SpaceX said this week it had offered to pay for Cursor, an AI coding tool. Should Musk not proceed with that acquisition, he has proposed instead a $10bn termination fee. Further evidence that SpaceX too is a Musk-driven moonshot, albeit with a substantive satellite and rocket business attached. True, a merger of Tesla and SpaceX would come with conflicts that require careful handling. As a test of their directors' gumption, the two companies are working together on a semiconductor plant in Texas called the Terafab, alongside Intel. Musk says the partnership will be reviewed by independent directors from both sides to make sure it is fair to all shareholders. Of course, the biggest of those in each case is Musk. Non-Musk shareholders in Tesla have always given their hero a long leash. SpaceX shareholders will probably do the same, though since it is expected Musk will hold super-voting shares, what they want matters little. In valuation terms, neither company is tethered to near-term profits or cash flow. To the extent that shareholders really just want exposure to Musk, a single security seems like the sensible end state.
Penshurst gardener's colossal pumpkin breaks his own 18-year record
Penshurst green thumb Loukas Dedes is proving that some things truly do get better with age. The 91-year-old grandfather has become a neighbourhood sensation after harvesting an enormous pumpkin weighing a staggering 33kg from his home garden. While a squash of that magnitude would be a lifetime achievement for most, for Mr Dedes, it is a record-breaking sequel. He first graced the pages of this masthead 18 years ago at age 73, when he proudly displayed a then-impressive 26kg pumpkin. A retired wedding photographer and former reporter for the Greek press, Mr Dedes has traded his camera lens for gardening shears, though his eye for a great story clearly remains sharp. His horticultural resume also includes a massive one-kilogram tomato, proving his green thumb extends across the entire veggie patch. According to his granddaughter, Hayley Dedes, the 2008 news clipping has been a prized family keepsake for nearly two decades. "My grandfather is known for always being in his garden, growing various fruits and vegetables all year round," Hayley said. Despite the modern era of specialised fertilisers, Mr Dedes keeps his methods refreshingly traditional, relying simply on cow manure and water to fuel his prize-winning produce. His son John said the secret is simply the amount of time he spends in the garden. He noted that his father has also taken a keen hand at beekeeping, at one point extracting two tonnes of honey a year, with neighbours constantly knocking on his door to buy it. "He thinks he's 21," John said. "The garden keeps him fit." This latest pumpkin took a couple of months to grow and is sitting on the verandah. It will soon be put to good use, as Mr Dedes' wife plans to make soup for their friends and neighbours using her collection of large pots. As well as, his record-breaking gourds, Mr Dedes continues to cultivate a diverse patch of broccoli, cabbage, silverbeet, and citrus trees.
KNH plunges into 'technical insolvency', debt chaos, pension crisis and revenue leakages: Audit report
The most alarming revelation is the hospital's descent into what the auditor-general describes as "technical insolvency". For the fourth year in a row, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has spent more than it earned. In 2024/25, it spent Sh2.6 billion, Sh2.3 billion more than the Sh299,708,000 in the previous financial year. While the hospital reported earning over Sh9.5 billion from medical services, audit teams discovered Sh188.8 million in revenue that was never officially receipted. This lack of documentation makes it impossible to confirm if the income reported is accurate or complete. Further, there is a major disagreement regarding what the hospital owes its suppliers. KNH records show a debt of only Sh6.7 million to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, but medical supplier's own records claim the hospital owes them over Sh117 million. This unexplained variance of Shs110 million raises serious questions about how KNH tracks its liabilities.
Microsoft to integrate Anthropic's Mythos into its security development programme
Microsoft is integrating advanced AI, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, into its secure coding. Microsoft said it evaluated Mythos, using its own open-source benchmark for real-world detection engineering tasks, and the "results showed substantial improvements relative to prior models." Microsoft said on Wednesday it plans to embed advanced artificial intelligence models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, into its secure coding framework, as the company steps up its cybersecurity capabilities. Incorporating the models into Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) will help identify vulnerabilities and develop fixes faster, early on in the cycle, the Windows maker said in a blog. Mythos, announced on April 7, has found "thousands" of major vulnerabilities in operating systems, web browsers and other software. Its capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts said. Anthropic has said the current iteration, Claude Mythos Preview, will be first deployed to a select group of companies as part of Anthropic's "Project Glasswing," a controlled initiative under which major technology companies, including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Apple, can use it to search for cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Microsoft said it evaluated Mythos, using its own open-source benchmark for real-world detection engineering tasks, and the "results showed substantial improvements relative to prior models." US President Donald Trump's administration, central bankers across the globe and industries are racing to get up to speed on Mythos and its ability to make complex cyberattacks both easier and quicker to crack.
Why you should not wager. A hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges
SpaceX says it has option to acquire startup Cursor for $60b
Baku - SpaceX said it has secured an option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for their new partnership, as it pushes deeper into the lucrative market for AI developer tools, according to a wire service. Alongwith OpenAI and Anthropic, Cursor is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have drawn waves of developers by using artificial intelligence to automate coding, a business where AI companies have found early commercial traction. The deal could give xAI, the Grok chatbot maker that SpaceX merged with in February, a stronger foothold in the AI coding market where it has so far lagged rivals. It also provides Cursor with more computing capacity to develop AI models. "The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world's most useful models," SpaceX said in an X post on Tuesday. Colossus is xAI's supercomputer cluster in Memphis, which it has touted as the largest in the world. The company has been spending billions of dollars on AI infrastructure. The announcement comes ahead of SpaceX's highly anticipated public debut in the coming months, with the company eyeing a valuation of close to $1.75 trillion and a $75 billion fundraise that could go down as the biggest IPO in history. Two product engineering heads at Cursor, a startup that sells AI models for coding tasks, said in March they joined SpaceX to contribute to the company's lunar projects and xAI, Musk's AI startup that is now part of SpaceX. Musk welcomed the engineers, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, saying, "Orbital space centers and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible."
London Underground strikes to resume as another day of travel chaos expected
Transport in London is expected to be chaos yet again as a new day of tube strikes is set to begin. On Thursday morning services will run as normal with strike action kicking off at 12 noon on Thursday, April 23 and scheduled to last another 24 hours. Following on from the disruption of yesterday, it is expected that even when services are meant to be running as scheduled, lines will still be impacted. A reduced service will run across most lines but significant disruption is expected and any services that do run will be less frequent, very busy, and you may not be able to board the first train. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) confirmed members would walk out from midday for 24 hours on Tuesday and Thursday having rejected an offer for drivers to voluntarily work a four-day week.
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Chaos at Singanallur terminus as voters block road over bus shortage ahead of Tamil Nadu polls
COIMBATORE: Chaos erupted at the Singanallur bus terminus in Coimbatore late on Wednesday night, as hundreds of passengers staged a road blockade over an alleged shortage of government buses to southern districts ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The protest brought traffic to a halt on the busy Trichy Road and exposed the difficulties faced by thousands of people from districts such as Madurai, Theni and Tirunelveli who were trying to return home to vote. Large numbers of commuters had gathered at the terminal since Wednesday night. After waiting for hours without adequate transport, a group of angry passengers blocked the main road and demanded immediate action from transport officials. The crowd was comparable to a peak festival-season rush. Although the government had announced special bus services, the heavy turnout of voters, including government employees and industrial workers, overwhelmed the available fleet. Passengers said the transport department had failed to plan for election travel with the same seriousness shown during Deepavali or Pongal. Many were seen standing on footboards or packed into overcrowded buses. "We have been waiting since 10 PM. Every bus that arrives is already full. If the government wants us to vote, it must provide the means to reach the polling booths," said a textile worker bound for Tirunelveli.
Microsoft considered Cursor acquisition before SpaceX's $60B deal- CNBC By Investing.com
Investing.com -- Microsoft explored a potential acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor before SpaceX announced its $60 billion deal this week, CNBC reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The software giant ultimately decided not to proceed with a bid for Cursor, the report said. Microsoft has been working to expand its artificial intelligence tools in the competitive AI market. The company currently offers GitHub Copilot for developers, though the AI coding space is dominated by Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Microsoft's main involvement in the AI sector has been through investments and cloud services, having invested billions of dollars in Anthropic and OpenAI. Both companies have committed to significant spending on Microsoft Azure. Cursor was seen raising funds a $50 billion valuation, reports showed earlier this month, reflecting strong demand for AI coding tools. SpaceX, controlled by Elon Musk, announced Tuesday that it agreed to either acquire Cursor for $60 billion by the end of the year, or pay the company $10 billion. This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C.
China's Colossal & Ceaseless Semi-Finished Steel Surge | OREACO
China's semi-finished steel exports surged 29% in the first quarter of 2026, hitting 1.53 million metric tons in March alone. The jump reflects surplus production capacity as domestic demand, especially from the property sector, remains weak. Chinese mills are redirecting billets & slabs to global markets, bypassing some trade barriers targeting finished steel. The surge is pressuring steel prices across Southeast Asia, the Middle East & Africa, prompting calls for stronger import protections worldwide.
