{"id":5098,"date":"2026-04-14T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:13:50","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-april-12th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-april-12th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 April 12th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>RAMageddon has come for Microsoft\u2019s Surface Pro and Surface Laptop &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/911322\/microsoft-surface-price-increase-ram\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic Attracts Investor Offers at an $800 Billion Valuation &#8211; Bloomberg | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-14\/anthropic-attracts-investor-offers-at-a-800-billion-valuation\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/anthropic-claude-opus-4-7-coding-agentic-benchmarks-release\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic now has a design assistant too &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/anthropic-now-has-a-design-assistant-too-150000903.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cook will be replaced by John Ternus, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of hardware engineering &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/915213\/tim-cook-apple-ceo-stepping-down-john-ternus\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic is investigating &#8216;unauthorized access&#8217; of its Mythos cybersecurity tool &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/anthropic-is-investigating-unauthorized-access-of-its-mythos-cybersecurity-tool-091017168.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/916427\/spacex-cursor-potential-deal-acquisition\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DJI launches new Lito budget drones, US misses out &#8211; Drone DJ | <a href=\"https:\/\/dronedj.com\/2026\/04\/23\/dji-new-lito-drone-us\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/04\/data-center-developer-pauses-middle-east-projects-after-war-damage\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Origin Launches and Lands their Reusable Orbital Rocket for the First Time\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMFAZ-6XfVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMageddon has come for Microsoft\u2019s Surface Pro and Surface Laptop &#8211; The Verge | Link Anthropic Attracts Investor Offers at an $800 Billion Valuation &#8211; Bloomberg | Link Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance &#8211; TNW | Link Anthropic now has a design assistant too &#8211; Engadget | Link Cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}