AI News Digest - 2026-04-20

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:16:13 GMT

1. Anthropic reported that it had flipped from a money-loser to a revenue powerhouse, with annualized revenue topping $30 billion and investors discussing valuations as high as $1 trillion.

2. AI-generated influencer accounts flooded TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube with pro-Trump content ahead of the midterm elections, with some accounts attracting more than 35,000 followers and millions of views and with some content shared by Donald Trump.

3. A German Higher Regional Court ruled that an AI comic adaptation of a copyrighted photograph did not violate the original work, finding that copying only the motif did not constitute copyright infringement.

4. Anthropic's Opus 4.7 employed a new tokenizer that broke identical text into up to 47% more tokens, causing each request to cost significantly more in practice despite unchanged per-token pricing.

5. The RealChart2Code benchmark tested 14 leading AI models on complex real-world visualizations and found that even the top proprietary models lost nearly half their performance compared with simpler chart tasks.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-revenue-surge-reportedly-fuels-talk-of-trillion-dollar-valuation/](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-revenue-surge-reportedly-fuels-talk-of-trillion-dollar-valuation/)

[Anthropic's revenue surge reportedly fuels talk of trillion-dollar valuation](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-revenue-surge-reportedly-fuels-talk-of-trillion-dollar-valuation/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-influencers-flood-social-media-with-pro-trump-content-ahead-of-midterms/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-influencers-flood-social-media-with-pro-trump-content-ahead-of-midterms/)

[AI-generated influencers flood social media with pro-Trump content ahead of midterms](https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-influencers-flood-social-media-with-pro-trump-content-ahead-of-midterms/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/german-court-rules-ai-comic-adaptation-of-copyrighted-photo-doesnt-violate-the-original/](https://the-decoder.com/german-court-rules-ai-comic-adaptation-of-copyrighted-photo-doesnt-violate-the-original/)

[German court rules AI comic adaptation of copyrighted photo doesn't violate the original](https://the-decoder.com/german-court-rules-ai-comic-adaptation-of-copyrighted-photo-doesnt-violate-the-original/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/first-token-counts-reveal-opus-4-7-costs-significantly-more-than-4-6-despite-anthropics-flat-pricing/](https://the-decoder.com/first-token-counts-reveal-opus-4-7-costs-significantly-more-than-4-6-despite-anthropics-flat-pricing/)

[First token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing](https://the-decoder.com/first-token-counts-reveal-opus-4-7-costs-significantly-more-than-4-6-despite-anthropics-flat-pricing/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/even-the-best-ai-models-lose-about-half-their-performance-when-charts-get-complicated-new-benchmark-finds/](https://the-decoder.com/even-the-best-ai-models-lose-about-half-their-performance-when-charts-get-complicated-new-benchmark-finds/)

[Even the best AI models lose about half their performance when charts get complicated, new benchmark finds](https://the-decoder.com/even-the-best-ai-models-lose-about-half-their-performance-when-charts-get-complicated-new-benchmark-finds/)