Tech Pulse Daily
Curated by Dillip Chowdary • April 11, 2026
Today's Top Highlights
- 💎Custom Silicon: Anthropic announces a $50B commitment to design and build its own AI chips, the "Mythos Core."
- 🚀Coding King: Z.ai GLM-5.1 becomes the first open-source model to beat GPT-5.4 in autonomous coding benchmarks.
- 🛡️Supply Chain Breach: A weaponized version of Smart Slider 3 Pro (3.5.1.35) impacts 800k+ WordPress sites with RCE.
- 🌌Orbital Training: Nvidia and StarCloud successfully train the first AI model entirely in Low Earth Orbit.
- 🤖Taiwan NCAIR: A $629M National Center for AI Robotics opens in Tainan to lead the "Silicon Shield" of robotics.
Security: Smart Slider 3 Pro Supply Chain Breach
A sophisticated supply chain attack has weaponized Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35. The backdoor allows for Remote Code Execution (RCE), putting over 800,000 WordPress sites at immediate risk of takeover. Read Urgent Advisory →
AI: Z.ai GLM-5.1 Sets New Open Source Record
The launch of GLM-5.1 by Z.ai marks a milestone in open weights. The model outperforms GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in autonomous coding tasks, offering 512k context and native tool-use capabilities. Read Benchmark Analysis →
Enterprise: Meta Forms Applied AI Engineering Unit
Meta is restructuring its engineering workforce to focus on Agentic Monitoring. The new Applied AI (AAI) unit will transition engineers from manual coding to high-level orchestration of autonomous agent swarms. Read Restructuring Deep Dive →
Infrastructure: Anthropic's $50B Custom Silicon Blitz
Anthropic enters the hardware race with the Mythos Core silicon. A $50 Billion infrastructure commitment aims to build vertically integrated data centers to combat GPU shortages and optimize Claude's inference. Read Hardware Roadmap →
Space: Nvidia & StarCloud Train First Orbital AI
The Orbital-1 model has been trained entirely in space using Nvidia's Rubin GPUs on StarCloud satellites. This achievement eliminates ground-station latency and downlink costs for planetary-scale observations. Read Space-AI Analysis →
Robotics: Taiwan Launches $629M NCAIR in Tainan
Taiwan’s National Center for AI Robotics (NCAIR) officially opens to lead the development of humanoid brains and actuators. The center integrates Taiwan's Silicon Shield with embodied intelligence. Read Robotics Roadmap →
Defense: Claude Mythos & Project Glasswing
Anthropic's Claude Mythos identifies thousands of financial zero-days, prompting the launch of Project Glasswing. The initiative focuses on autonomous defensive patching to secure global banking systems. Read Security Deep Dive →