The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised
The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised

In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver con…

Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases

In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in…

SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format
SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format

As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS founders, will return to Barcelona between May 20 and 21 …

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking
AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets u…

AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.
AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s…

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push

In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital …

Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home
Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home

In short: A 20-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 10 April 2026, after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, then travelling across the city to OpenAI’s offices on Third Street …

Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents

In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no …

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelt…

CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives …