Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 16. Today we are covering:

* You Switched to Claude Over Surveillance Fears. Now It Wants Your Passport

* X rolls out ‘Cashtags’ for in-timeline crypto and stock data

* Google ships its most expressive Gemini 3.1 text-to-speech model yet with 70+ language support

* Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

* Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut storage costs by 45 per cent

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