🍦 Anthropic puts OpenClaw on the meter
Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0 while Claude Mythos stays behind a velvet rope — plus OpenClaw loses its free pass
April 9, 2026
⚡ TL;DR
Gemma Goes Open: Google dropped Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 with serious local, edge, and multimodal chops, which is a polite way of saying the open-model race just got mean again.
No Free Claws: Anthropic cut off subscription-funded OpenClaw usage and pushed third-party agent tooling toward pay-as-you-go billing, because even agent hype still has a compute invoice attached.
Claude in Quarantine: Anthropic showed off Mythos as a bug-hunting monster model and then mostly kept it inside Project Glasswing, which is one way to launch with a velvet rope.
Memory Upgrade: Claude got reusable Skills and scoped-memory Projects, turning repeated prompting into something closer to an actual working system.
Robot Tax Season: OpenAI published a policy vision with robot taxes, public wealth funds, and a four-day workweek, so the lab is now shipping economic fan fiction with footnotes.
💰 Market Moves
Anthropic Says ARR Topped $30B and Expands TPU Deal
Anthropic said its revenue run rate passed $30 billion while locking in multiple gigawatts of Google and Broadcom TPU capacity, showing demand is now outrunning normal cloud procurement rhythms.
Anthropic Reportedly Buys Coefficient Bio for $400M
Anthropic reportedly bought Coefficient Bio for about $400 million, extending its safety-heavy research story into biology and drug discovery where model capability and lab risk collide.
Xoople Raises $130M to Build Earth Data for AI
Xoople raised $130 million in Series B funding to sell Earth-observation data for AI training, betting models will keep needing fresher pictures of the physical world.
Intel Joins Musk’s Terafab AI Chip Complex
Intel joined Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab chip project at Giga Texas, a reported $20 billion to $25 billion compute bet spanning data centers and humanoids.
Aria Networks Raises $125M for AI Networking
Aria Networks raised $125 million in Series A funding to build AI networking infrastructure, another sign the picks-and-shovels layer is still drinking first.
🛠️ Tech & Product
Google Releases Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0
Google released Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 with 2B to 31B multimodal models, pushing capable local and edge AI closer to “just run it here” territory.
Anthropic Restricts Claude Mythos to Project Glasswing
Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, limiting its bug-hunting frontier model to about 40 defensive-security partners instead of tossing it onto the public internet.
Claude Adds Skills and Scoped-Memory Projects
Anthropic rolled out reusable Skills and scoped-memory Projects for Claude, turning one-off prompting into portable workflows that can keep tools, files, and instructions attached.
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.1 for Long-Horizon Coding Agents
Z.ai released GLM-5.1, a 744B open model built for agentic engineering that claims top coding results and up to eight hours of autonomous tool use.
Google Upgrades Vids with Veo, Lyria, and AI Avatars
Google upgraded Vids with Veo 3.1, Lyria 3, AI avatars, screen recording, and direct YouTube publishing, making Workspace’s video tool feel less like a toy.
Z.ai Ships GLM-5V-Turbo for Screenshot-to-Code
Z.ai launched GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal coding model that turns screenshots, mockups, and documents into runnable code and plugs into Claude Code and OpenClaw.
Microsoft Launches MAI-Transcribe-1, Voice-1, and Image-2
Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-1, Voice-1, and Image-2 on Foundry, signaling it wants more of its multimodal stack in-house instead of renting permanent model dependency.
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.6-Plus for Repo-Scale Agents
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus with multimodal reasoning and a 1 million-token context window for repo-scale agent workflows, because apparently normal context windows now count as quaint.
Cursor 3 Rebuilds the IDE Around Agents and Multi-Repo Work
Cursor 3 rebuilt the IDE around agent collaboration across multiple repos and workspaces, leaning harder into the idea that coding environments are becoming orchestration layers.
Adobe Launches Student Spaces to Turn Notes into Study Tools
Adobe launched Student Spaces to turn notes, PDFs, and links into quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, and presentations, taking a direct shot at the NotebookLM-style study stack.
Gmail Tests AI Inbox for Ultra Subscribers
Gmail began testing AI Inbox for U.S. AI Ultra subscribers, replacing chronological triage with Gemini-generated summaries, to-dos, and catch-up buckets for overloaded inboxes.
Google Adds Mental Health Guardrails to Gemini
Google added crisis detection, hotline routing, and a $30 million mental-health commitment to Gemini after scrutiny over harmful chatbot behavior, a rare case of guardrails becoming product news.
Netflix Open-Sources VOID for Video Cleanup
Netflix open-sourced VOID for object removal and background filling in video, giving creators a concrete open model instead of another vague “multimodal platform” promise.
Cursor Publishes warp decode for Faster MoE Inference
Cursor published
warp decode, a kernel design that reportedly boosts Blackwell MoE inference throughput by about 1.8x, which matters when agent appetite starts eating GPU budgets.
🗣️ Industry Chatter
Anthropic Ends Subscription-Funded OpenClaw Usage
Anthropic said Claude Code subscribers will need pay-as-you-go billing for OpenClaw and similar third-party tooling, abruptly reminding everyone that agent UX still answers to compute economics.
Follow-On Analysis Maps Claude Code’s Leaked Memory Stack
New reporting on last week’s Claude Code leak mapped a three-layer memory system and background-agent design, turning a bad packaging mistake into an unsolicited architecture teardown.
Anthropic Says Claude’s “Emotions” Affect Behavior
Anthropic published research arguing Claude’s learned emotion concepts can steer model behavior in long-horizon tasks, which is less “the bot feels” and more “the internals matter.”
OpenAI Pushes Robot Taxes and Public Wealth Funds
OpenAI’s
Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Agepitched robot taxes, public wealth funds, and a shorter workweek, so the lab is now trying to benchmark macroeconomic futurism too.
Perplexity Launches Computer for Taxes
Perplexity launched Computer for Taxes to scan law changes and catch human prep errors, which is either helpful software or the most stressful possible demo category.
Google’s AI Overviews Still Miss the Mark About 10% of the Time
Studies and follow-up reporting put Gemini-powered AI Overviews around 90% accurate but often poorly sourced, a decent hit rate that still falls apart fast at search scale.