Monday, 27 April 2026

Politics

Shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night — suspect appears to have been targeting Trump and his cabinet. 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen in custody; a Secret Service agent took a round in the vest. Trump, Vance and the cabinet unhurt, but this reframes the week — expect the security-state response to be the actual story. Al Jazeera
Senate kills the fifth Iran war powers resolution, 46–51; the 60-day clock runs out around 1 May. Only Rand Paul crossed. The White House will likely argue the 8 April ceasefire paused the clock — there is no statutory basis for that, which is exactly the institutional question worth watching. The Hill
Norge gir 500 mill. kr til Ukrainas atomsikkerhet på 40-årsdagen for Tsjernobyl. Direkte kobling mellom markeringen og russiske angrep på ukrainsk kraftnett — pengene går til IAEA-arbeid og reservedeler. regjeringen.no

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview — the offensive-cyber model deliberately withheld from public release — got accessed by unauthorised users who guessed the API URL. Mythos was restricted to ~52 vetted orgs precisely because it can autonomously find zero-days and write working exploits. The naming-convention slip is the embarrassing part; the policy implications are the real one. Nicholas Rhodes
Anthropic ran a closed marketplace where Claude agents bought and sold from each other with real money. Users represented by stronger backing models got “objectively better outcomes” — small dataset, but a pointed datapoint for the agent-commerce thesis and an unsettling one for consumer-protection people. TechCrunch
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Clinicians on GPT-5.4 — free for verified prescribers, with peer-reviewed source access and reusable workflow skills. The regulated-vertical play is now explicit; expect the same template for legal next. llm-stats

dbt’s State of Analytics Engineering 2026 event runs Wed–Thu — first annual readout since the Fivetran merger was announced, so the strategy framing matters more than usual. dbt Labs
Liverpool 3-1 Crystal Palace at Anfield Saturday. The keeper-crisis match Slot was sweating turned into a comfortable win; top-five push stays alive. VAVEL
Carla dal Forno — Confession. Bandcamp’s album of the day Friday; spare, atmospheric, fits the Talk Talk / War on Drugs lane more than the post-punk tag suggests. Worth a Sunday-evening listen. Bandcamp Daily