The 10 most important AI stories of April 5, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Investors are rebalancing toward Anthropic as OpenAI faces a chillier funding narrative, the Los Angeles Times reports—marking one of the most watched sentiment shifts in private AI markets.
AI skeptics aren't the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models' outputs—that's what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
LLM-based coding agents extend their capabilities via third-party agent skills distributed through open marketplaces without mandatory security review. Unlike traditional packages, these skills are executed as operational directives with system-level privileges, so a single malicious skill can compromise the host. Prior work has not examined whether supply-chain attacks can directly hijack an agent's action space, such as file writes, shell commands, and network requests, despite existing safegu...
Shaurya Malwa /CoinDesk:Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit— Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital …
The new offering is designed for advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities.
Baidu Apollo Robotaxis froze in the middle of lanes, stranding passengers and causing crashes. What didn't Baidu learn from Waymo and what might we suspect about the cause?
Microsoft said it plans to invest $10 billion in Japan between 2026 and 2029 to build AI infrastructure.
Matthew Gallagher launched Medvi, a GLP-1 telehealth company, from his Los Angeles home in September 2024. Fourteen months later, revenues are on track to hit $1.8 billion. He has one employee: his brother.
Chinese chip companies have benefited from strong domestic demand for AI as U.S. tech curbs have bolstered local firms.
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