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On 8 April 2026 Anthropic unveiled its Claude Mythos Preview model but withheld public access, instead giving roughly forty selected firms early use through the new Project Glasswing after the AI autonomously located thousands of severe software vulnerabilities.
On 10 April 2026 the European Union switched on its long-delayed Entry/Exit System at every external Schengen crossing, ending passport-stamping and making fingerprints or facial scans compulsory for nearly all non-EU visitors.
On 6-7 April 2026, NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule swung 4,067 mi from the lunar surface, reaching 252,756 mi from Earth—surpassing Apollo 13—and, during a 40-minute radio blackout, the astronauts captured and later released the first photograph ever taken by humans of the Moon’s far side.
NASA will attempt its first crewed Orion re-entry on 10 Apr 2026, sending Artemis II hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere for a splashdown off San Diego after a 10-day, 600,000-mile loop around the Moon.
On 9 April 2026 Meta released Muse Spark, its first proprietary multimodal AI model built by the new Superintelligence Labs, signaling a pivot away from open-source Llama and immediately integrating the model across all Meta apps.
On 6 April 2026, moments after pushing humanity’s distance record to 252,756 miles from Earth, the four Artemis II astronauts radioed Mission Control asking that two freshly spotted lunar craters be named “Carroll” (for Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife) and “Integrity” (for their Orion capsule).
For the first time this season, multiple national agencies (PAGASA, NOAA, BMKG) put the probability of an El Niño forming in June-August 2026 above 60 %, prompting governments from Indonesia to the Philippines to activate drought, wildfire and food-price contingency plans.
On 8 Apr 2026 Anthropic unveiled its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model and, citing unprecedented offensive-cyber capabilities, created the cross-industry Project Glasswing to give roughly 50 vetted organisations limited access while withholding the model from the public.
On 7 April 2026 Intel said it will partner with Elon Musk’s Terafab consortium to provide design, fabrication and packaging know-how for two planned Texas chip plants, a disclosure that lifted Intel’s share price by roughly 3 %.
On 6 April 2026 the Orion spacecraft carrying four Artemis II astronauts hit 252,760 miles from Earth— the farthest humans have ever travelled—during a 10-day lunar fly-around that now heads for a Pacific splashdown late Friday.
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