Zhemal Khamidun

Business

Mistral releases open speech-generation model for smartphones and smartwatches

Mistral has released an open speech model that runs directly on a smartphone or smartwatch, with no cloud, no network latency and no API fees.

Hardware·TechCrunch

Senator Warner Proposes Taxing Data Centers to Pay for AI Job Losses

Growing fear of AI-driven unemployment is turning into grievances against data centers. Senator Mark Warner wants them to pay for worker retraining.

Apr 22, 2026·1 min

Webtoon launches AI translation into 7 languages for Canvas indie creators

Webtoon's Canvas platform is getting an AI translator, audience analytics and new monetization tools to help comic creators reach a global market.

Hardware·TechCrunch

Cohere releases open-source transcription model with 2 billion parameters and 14 languages

Cohere has released an open-source speech transcription model: 2 billion parameters, 14 languages, and it runs on an ordinary consumer GPU.

01Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst and YC for AI-powered video surveillance searchApr 22, 2026·2 min 02English Wikipedia bans editors from writing articles with AIApr 22, 2026·2 min 03A Kentucky grandmother turned down an AI company: the real world is pushing back on data center expansionApr 22, 2026·2 min 04Meta prepares third-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses as FCC lists two new devicesApr 22, 2026·2 min 05ByteDance adds new Dreamina Seedance 2.0 video generation model to CapCutApr 22, 2026·3 min

Top themes

Google expands Search Live voice AI search to 200+ countries and dozens of languages

Autonomous·Wired

Tech journalists are using AI agents to write and edit their stories

LLM·The Verge

Apple will open Siri to Gemini and Claude: iOS 27 adds support for third-party AI chatbots

LLM·The Verge

Google Gemini Lets You Import Memory and Chat History From Other AI Assistants

Apr 22, 2026·1 min

LLM·The Verge

Judge sides with Anthropic, temporarily blocks Pentagon's ban on working with the company

A federal court in California issued a preliminary injunction against the US Department of Defense: Anthropic was blacklisted for criticizing government contract…

Business·TechCrunch

Wikipedia tightens its rules: AI-written text under scrutiny in article writing

Wikipedia is cracking down on AI-generated content, as the world's largest online encyclopedia tightens its policy to protect the reliability of its articles.

LLM·TechCrunch

Google launches tools to move chats from ChatGPT and other AI bots into Gemini

Google has added "switching tools": users can now move their chat history and personal data from other chatbots straight into Gemini.

Apple Music Playlist Playground: An AI Playlist Generator That Doesn't Listen to the Prompt

LLM·Wired

ChatGPT launches ads: a journalist asked 500 questions to see what the bot shows

Business·Wired

AI documentary puts CEOs in the hot seat, then goes easy on them

Hardware·TechCrunch

AI companies are buying up land for billions, but the real world is starting to push back

Business·Wired

Apple turns 50 and plans to keep selling the iPhone for another half-century

Hardware

AI Data Centers at the Heart of the Energy Crisis: From Anthropic's Pledges to Protests in Oregon

Startups

SoftBank Takes Out a $40 Billion Loan: JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Bet on an OpenAI IPO

Research

NeurIPS Reverses Controversial Policy After Backlash From Chinese AI Researchers

OpenAI officially shuts down Sora: the video generation app didn't pay for itself

OpenAI has wound down Sora, dropped video generation in ChatGPT and scrapped its $1 billion Disney deal, all to cut losses.