AI News for April 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[TOOLS] Adobe launches Firefly AI Assistant: a cross-app creative agent for Photoshop, Premiere, and more: Adobe unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, an agentic tool that orchestrates complex, multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, and other Creative Cloud apps from a single conversational interface.
[NEWS] Bloomberg reveals how Anthropic discovered Mythos was too dangerous to release; Huang calls for US-China safety talks: Bloomberg obtained an exclusive account of how Anthropic discovered during internal testing that Mythos could autonomously hack operating systems, browsers, and banking infrastructure, leading to a 40-organization whitelist rather than a public launch.
[NEWS] Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI compute, rebrands as NewBird AI, stock surges 582%: Shoe company Allbirds announced a complete pivot to AI compute infrastructure, rebranding as NewBird AI and securing $50M in financing to buy GPUs for a GPU-as-a-Service business.
[NEWS] Anthropic prepares Opus 4.7 and AI design tool, stocks of Adobe, Figma, Wix drop: Anthropic plans to release Claude Opus 4.7 and a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations as early as this week.
[NEWS] TSMC Q1 profit surges 58%, raises 2026 revenue outlook above 30% growth: TSMC posted a 58% surge in first-quarter profit, beating estimates and showing the Iran war's early weeks did not dent booming AI investment.
[NEWS] Snap lays off 16% of workforce, cites AI advancements: Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 full-time employees (16% of its global workforce) and closing 300 open roles, with CEO Evan Spiegel citing "AI advancements" that enable smaller teams to drive progress.
[RESEARCH] Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, enabling robots to read gauges and inspect equipment: Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a reasoning model for robots that significantly improves spatial and physical understanding.
[TOOLS] Google launches native Gemini app for Mac with Option+Space shortcut: Google released a native Gemini app for macOS that sits a keyboard shortcut away (Option+Space), letting users chat with the AI assistant without switching windows.
[RESEARCH] GPT-5.4 Pro reportedly solves longstanding Erdos math problem in under two hours: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro model solved Erdos open problem #1196 in roughly 80 minutes, then prepared the solution as a LaTeX paper in another 30.
[RESEARCH] Claude beat human researchers on an alignment task, then results vanished in production: Nine autonomous Claude instances outperformed human researchers on an AI alignment task, achieving a near-perfect score in five days.

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