News — 2026-04-10

OpenAI testified in favor of Illinois Senate Bill 3444, which would protect developers of frontier AI models from civil liability for "critical harms" such as mass casualties or billion‑dollar property damage, provided they publish safety reports and avoid reckless conduct. The legislation defines a frontier model as one trained with over $100 million in compute costs and aims to create uniform standards while limiting state‑by‑state regulatory patches. Critics warn the bill could reduce accountability, but OpenAI argues it balances safety with innovation. Read more

Meta's Superintelligence Labs rolled out Muse Spark, a new generative AI model that can analyze users' personal health information, through the Meta AI app. The company says the tool was trained with input from more than 1,000 physicians and will soon appear on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Health experts warn that the service is not HIPAA‑compliant, may retain data for future training and could expose sensitive information, raising serious privacy and safety questions. Read more

OpenAI announced a new $100‑per‑month Pro subscription that sits between its existing Plus plan and a $200 Pro tier, offering unlimited access to GPT‑5.4, a higher‑capacity Codex mode and up to ten‑times the usage limits of Plus. At the same time, the company introduced an unseen fallback model, ChatGPT‑5.3 Instant Mini, which automatically takes over when users hit rate limits on the standard ChatGPT‑5.3 Instant service. The changes reshape how casual, Plus and Pro subscribers experience the AI chat tool. Read more

OpenAI announced a new $100 monthly tier for ChatGPT Pro that boosts access to its Codex coding assistant by five times compared with the $20 Plus plan. The upgrade targets developers and power users who need longer, high‑effort coding sessions. By positioning the tier against Anthropic’s Claude Code Max, also priced at $100, OpenAI hopes to capture a share of the growing AI‑assisted programming market. Existing plans—free, $8 Go, $20 Plus, and a $200 Pro option— remain unchanged, giving users a broader spectrum of choices. Read more

Google announced on Wednesday that its Gemini chatbot will now include a built‑in notebooks feature, tightly linked with the company's NotebookLM tool. Users can create, edit and sync notebooks directly in Gemini, allowing the AI to draw on a personal knowledge base without searching the open web. The feature rolls out first to AI Ultra, Pro and Plus subscribers on the web, with mobile and free‑tier availability slated for the coming weeks. By merging Gemini’s conversational abilities with NotebookLM’s source‑grounded answering, Google aims to make its AI more useful for study, work and creative projects. Read more

San Francisco‑based Anthropic is weighing the development of its own artificial‑intelligence chips, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The move comes as the company’s annualized revenue run rate for its Claude models surged past $30 billion, up from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. Anthropic still runs workloads on a mix of Google‑Broadcom TPUs, Amazon‑custom silicon and Nvidia GPUs, and has just secured a long‑term deal for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity beginning in 2027. The firm has not yet formed a dedicated chip team and may continue buying off‑the‑shelf silicon. Read more