📰 News Daily News: April 19, 2026
Amodei at the White House, DeepSeek's $10B round, Claude Design goes live, and federal agencies are skirting the Anthropic ban to test Mythos.
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📰 News Elon Musk Proposes 'Universal High Income' to Counter AI Job Displacement
The first major tech CEO to propose a specific income policy for AI-driven unemployment — and why experts are skeptical.
📰 News Active Inference System Scores 95% on ARC-AGI-3 — While Every Other Agent Collapses to Near Zero
SeedIQ's active inference architecture dominated ARC-AGI-3 — and raised questions about who gets to compete.
📰 News OpenAI Commits $20 Billion to Cerebras Chips in Historic AI Infrastructure Deal
One of the largest single AI infrastructure investments ever announced underscores the staggering capital now required to compete at the frontier.
📰 News Qwen 3.6 Plus Becomes First Model to Process 1.4 Trillion Tokens in a Single Day on OpenRouter
Qwen 3.6 Plus just set an OpenRouter record no model has ever touched.
📰 News If Undersea Cables Go Dark, New Zealand Goes Silent — And Starlink Can't Carry the Weight of a Nation
China's undersea cable-cutter exposes a brutal truth: NZ's internet hangs on a few fiber lines. Starlink keeps the lights on for many, but cables handle the heavy lifting.
📰 News Cursor AI Coding Assistant Raises $2B at $50B Valuation — Nvidia Joins the Bet
Cursor's $50B valuation and Nvidia backing show where the smart money is betting on AI.
📰 News Ex-DeepMind and OpenAI Engineers Raise $500M for Recursive Superintelligence Startup
Recursive Superintelligence raised $500M to build self-teaching AI. The frontier race shifts from bigger models to AI that improves itself.
📰 News Anthropic Drops Claude Opus 4.7 — The Model That Works for Hours Without You
Anthropic just dropped Claude Opus 4.7 without warning — and it can work for hours autonomously, verify its own outputs, and handle your hardest coding tasks with less supervision than ever.
📰 News Allbirds Ditches Shoes for AI — Stock Up 582% on GPU Pivot
A shoe company becomes a GPU landlord overnight. The AI gold rush has officially jumped the shark.
📰 News Anthropic Starts Requiring ID for Claude Access — AI KYC Arrives Before Regulation
AI identity verification is here — not because regulators demanded it, but because Anthropic chose it. The AI KYC era begins.
📰 News AI Workflow Wars: OpenAI and Perplexity Fight to Own Your Mac
The AI wars just moved from benchmarks to your desktop. OpenAI Codex and Perplexity Personal Computer both want to live on your Mac 24/7.