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April 7, 2026

🔥 AI Brief #021: No Claude for Claws

AI Morning Brief #021

Issue #021  ·  Tuesday, April 07, 2026

🤖 AI Morning Brief

Everything moving in AI — curated, no fluff.

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📋  At a Glance

🔥No Claude for Claws
🏗️Employers may lose up to 4% of labor spend to poor payroll management
🏛️llm-gemini 0.30
🚀datasette-ports 0.1
🔥  BREAKING NEWS — The story everyone is talking about
No Claude for Claws

in 3 months, Anthropic added $6B ARR

📰 Ben's Bites  ·  2h ago
🏛️  FROM THE LABS — Anthropic · OpenAI · Google DeepMind · xAI
llm-gemini 0.30

Release: llm-gemini 0.30 New models gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview , gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it . See my notes on Gemma 4 . Tags: gemini , l…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  4d ago
Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces

We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough

📰 One Useful Thing  ·  6d ago
Inside the leaked Claude Code files

Docs as files, a new markdown editor and April fools

📰 Ben's Bites  ·  5d ago
🚀  NEW RELEASES — Products, features, and launches worth knowing
datasette-ports 0.1

Release: datasette-ports 0.1 Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me. I often find myself…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
scan-for-secrets 0.1.1

Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1.1 Added documentation of the escaping schemes that are also scanned. Removed unnecessary repr escaping scheme, which was…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  2d ago
🏗️  HCM INDUSTRY WATCH — Competitor moves · Product launches · HR tech signals
Employers may lose up to 4% of labor spend to poor payroll management

While compensation often represents a significant portion of operating expenses, payroll is sometimes an afterthought, per a UKG and KPMG report.

📰 HR Dive  ·  1d ago
The 4 biggest HR compliance risks for SMBs — and how to avoid them

With an ever-changing landscape of employee regulations and requirements, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) must constantly strive to stay compliant…

📰 HR Dive  ·  1d ago
Starbucks adds performance bonuses for front-line workers

Baristas and shift supervisors at stores that hit key performance metrics could see $300 quarterly bonuses starting in July.

📰 HR Dive  ·  3d ago
⭐  TRENDING & VIRAL — Hot GitHub repos · What builders are sharing · Tools going viral
🧠 Community Wisdom: Evaluating startup equity, navigating pre-seed fundraising, MCPs vs. CLIs, Monzo’s U.S. exit, and mo

Community Wisdom 180

📰 Lenny's Newsletter  ·  2d ago
ChatGPT on CarPlay

ChatGPT voice in CarPlay for hands-free driving AI on the go Discussion | Link

📰 Product Hunt AI  ·  4d ago
🔬  RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT — Science that could change everything
PINNs in PDE Constrained Optimal Control Problems: Direct vs Indirect Methods

We study physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) as numerical tools for the optimal control of semilinear partial differential equations. We first re…

📰 arXiv  ·  21h ago
Vero: An Open RL Recipe for General Visual Reasoning

What does it take to build a visual reasoner that works across charts, science, spatial understanding, and open-ended tasks? The strongest vision-lang…

📰 arXiv  ·  21h ago
🛠️  TOOLS & WORKFLOWS — Practical AI you can use today
Syntaqlite Playground

Tool: Syntaqlite Playground Lalit Maganti's syntaqlite is currently being discussed on Hacker News thanks to Eight years of wanting, three months of b…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  1d ago
The cognitive impact of coding agents

A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-s…

📰 Simon Willison  ·  3d ago
⚖️  POLICY & SAFETY — Regulation, ethics, and the bigger picture
Congress Has No Binding AI Law. Industry Leaders Say the Window to Act Is Closing.

Congress Has No Binding AI Law. Industry Leaders Say the Window to Act Is Closing.    Altitudes Magazine

📰 Altitudes Magazine  ·  3d ago
⚡  QUICK HITS — More signal, less noise — fast reads
Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast Simon Willison · 4d ago
datasette-extract 0.3a0 Simon Willison · 6d ago
datasette-llm-usage 0.2a0 Simon Willison · 6d ago
datasette-llm 0.1a5 Simon Willison · 6d ago
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forec Import AI · 1d ago

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