AI News for April 9, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Meta launches Muse Spark, its first proprietary frontier AI model: Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, a native multimodal reasoning model with tool use, visual chain-of-thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
[NEWS] Anthropic loses appeal to halt Pentagon supply-chain risk label: A federal appeals court in Washington declined Anthropic's request to pause the Pentagon's declaration that the AI company poses a risk to the US supply chain.
[TOOLS] Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents for production agent deployment: Anthropic released Claude Managed Agents in public beta, a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale.
[NEWS] Musk seeks $0 for himself in OpenAI suit; trial starts this month in Oakland: Musk's lawyer clarified in amended filings that any potential $150B in damages from the ongoing OpenAI lawsuit 'will not go into Elon's pocket' — he 'is not seeking a single dollar for himself.' OpenAI called the suit 'a harassment campaign driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor.' Trial is set to begin this month in Oakland, California.
[NEWS] AI RAM shortage drives SSD prices up 200-300%, phone prices surge: Consumer SSD prices have doubled or tripled since late 2025 as AI data centers consume global NAND flash supply alongside DRAM.
[NEWS] xAI undergoes another engineering overhaul as SpaceX exec takes president title: SpaceX executive Michael Nicolls took on the title of xAI president and announced a major reorganization of the AI company's engineering team, saying xAI is "clearly behind" the competition.
[TOOLS] Gemini gets notebooks to organize projects, mirroring ChatGPT's Projects: Google announced "notebooks" for Gemini, letting users pull files, past conversations, and custom instructions into topic-specific knowledge bases.
[OPINION] "The vibes are off at OpenAI": executive exits, killed products, and internal discord mount: The Verge published an analysis of OpenAI's growing instability: COO Brad Lightcap moved to "special projects," AGI chief took medical leave, Sora was discontinued mid-Disney partnership, the adult mode was shelved, and the company signed a controversial Pentagon contract that CEO Sam Altman called "opportunistic and sloppy." Despite closing $122B in funding at an $852B valuation and potentially planning an IPO, the company faces questions about execution.
[NEWS] OpenAI will allocate IPO shares to retail investors, CFO says: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company plans to set aside shares for retail investors as it prepares for its public market debut.
[NEWS] Gen Z workers sabotaging AI rollouts at 44%, survey finds: A survey of 2,400 knowledge workers by Writer and Workplace Intelligence found 29% of employees admit to sabotaging their company's AI strategy.

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