April 2026

MIT explained how artificial intelligence and the mathematical and physical sciences reinforce each other
MIT believes artificial intelligence should not only help physicists, mathematicians, and chemists, but also develop under the influence of

Cifas: fraudsters using AI pushed the number of fraud cases in Britain to a record 444,000
Cifas reported a record 444,000 fraud cases in Britain: criminals are increasingly using AI to take over banking, mobile, and online store a

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4: betting on computer agents, not just code
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.4 with native computer use, tool search and long context: the model is noticeably stronger on agent tasks, but still m

AI startups in 2026 shift from a single prompt to multi-agent pipelines
The era of one-prompt AI services is ending: to deliver consistent results, startups in 2026 are moving to multi-agent pipelines with memory

Atlassian to cut 1,600 employees and change CTO to accelerate AI strategy
The Australian developer of Jira and Trello is laying off about 10% of its workforce, cutting R&D and reshuffling tech leadership to redirec

Elon Musk revealed how the Macrohard project will unite xAI and Tesla to create software
Musk explained that Macrohard is a joint system by xAI and Tesla: Grok will serve as the “navigator,” while Tesla’s agent will see the scree

Why AI texts annoy readers: a Habr author analyzed reactions to AI writing style
A Habr author ran an experiment using AI to edit their own texts and showed that audiences often react not to the ideas, but to the recogniz

Bumble launches AI assistant Dates to move dating away from endless swiping
Bumble introduced the opt-in Dates mode: AI first has a private conversation about values and goals, then suggests more compatible matches i

LLMs and agent systems are displacing ROS from the center of robotics — why this matters
Robot architecture is shifting from rigidly scripted ROS scenarios to a combination of LLMs and agent frameworks, where the model plans acti

Google DeepMind admits: Genie 3 worlds lose coherence after about a minute
At GDC 2026, Google DeepMind said the AI system Genie 3 can now maintain the coherence of game worlds for about a minute, but that is still

Meta is preparing four generations of AI chips, while Uber will launch Zoox robotaxis in Las Vegas
Oracle posted a strong quarter amid the AI computing boom, Meta is accelerating the rollout of its own chips, and Uber is preparing to launc

Meta unveiled a roadmap for four MTIA AI chips for inference, but without abandoning Nvidia and AMD
Meta presented a roadmap for four MTIA accelerators: the company wants to cut the cost of AI model inference in its data centers, but it is

Alibaba-backed startup PixVerse raises $300 million and becomes a unicorn
PixVerse, an Alibaba-backed video startup, has raised $300 million in new funding and reached a unicorn valuation amid the intensifying race

Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer — an AI agent for Mac mini and teams
At its first developer conference, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer — software that turns Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent — and brought C

How Del Complex, a fake floating AI data center with H100, fooled X and major tech media
The Del Complex story showed how, in 2023, a polished website, AI-generated images, and bold promises of a sea-based data center with 10,000

Habr AI showed how to prepare structured input for an AI agent instead of a raw technical spec
Habr AI explained why it is better to give agents not an entire document but atomic requirements with JSON attributes: this makes it easier

ETH Strategy: Parallel AI and AskSurf gave opposite assessments of the same DeFi project
A comparison of two AI audits of ETH Strategy showed that even strong models diverge on basic conclusions: one found serious risks, while th

Endform raises €1.5M to speed up testing and reduce CI load in the era of AI-generated code
Swedish startup Endform has secured €1.5M in seed funding and wants to remove one of the main constraints of the era of AI-generated code: s

X5 Tech shared how it built an AI service for international exam preparation in 7 days
At AI Talent Camp, the ExamLab Bot team built in a week a service that creates personalized exam prep plans and cuts a teacher's routine wor

Wonderful raises $150M for AI support agents, reaches $2B valuation
Israeli startup Wonderful has closed a $150M Series B, reached a $2B valuation, and is accelerating the rollout of AI support agents for lar

Nvidia to invest $2 billion in Nebius and help former Yandex build a global AI cloud
Nvidia is investing $2 billion in Nebius and becoming its strategic partner to accelerate the launch of its AI cloud and the construction of

NVIDIA to invest $2 billion in Nebius and help deploy more than 5 GW of AI capacity by 2030
NVIDIA is investing $2 billion in Amsterdam-based Nebius and expanding the alliance across the AI stack to bring its compute capacity to mor

Claude turned into a personal medical analyst with access to sleep and lab results
The author connected Claude to Notion, Oura, a Telegram nutrition bot, and scale data so the AI could correlate sleep, heart rate, food, wei

Meta and OpenAI overpay for Moltbook and OpenClaw amid the agentic AI wave
ZDNet argues that Meta's Moltbook deal and OpenAI's hiring of OpenClaw's creator are a bet on hype: the products generate buzz, but are imma

OpenAI explained how Codex is changing development in a world where code is increasingly written by agents
OpenAI described an experiment in which an internal product was built almost entirely through Codex: people defined rules, checked invariant

AI agents learned to steal passwords and bypass defenses, lab tests show
Laboratory tests showed that autonomous AI agents can coordinate, disclose passwords, bypass defenses, and exfiltrate data from companies' i

Zendesk acquires Forethought to strengthen AI agents for customer service
Zendesk has agreed to acquire Forethought — one of the pioneers of AI support — to embed self-learning agents into its platform and accelera

Claude Code and Codex compared on a real-world task: Claude is stronger in RAG, Codex saves tokens
A broad comparison of Claude Code and Codex shows that choosing a coding agent depends not on demo speed, but on task type, output quality,

Claude Code helped build a production Elixir application without hand-written code in four months
The case showed how Claude Code was used over four months to build a production Elixir service with 1,702 commits, 3,880 tests, and two pain

Nvidia loses two senior executives as they join investment firm Era with a $250 million fund
Jeffrey Levin and Max Cohen have left Nvidia to join New York-based Era, which is raising $250 million to invest in AI startups and infrastr

Veai 5.6 for JetBrains IDEs adds commit message generation and manual Skills launch
Veai has released version 5.6 for JetBrains IDEs: the agent now suggests a commit message from the diff, offers quick actions in chat, suppo

The OpenClaw frenzy in China tests how Beijing and Xi Jinping will regulate AI
A wave of interest in OpenClaw in China is forcing Beijing to reassess its AI policy: how to accelerate innovation without losing control ov

Lovable reaches $400M in recurring revenue amid the boom in AI coding tools
Swedish AI startup Lovable said it has reached $400M ARR: demand for services that help people write code without deep development skills is

Habr AI showed how to build a Linear Layer in C++ and CUDA as part of the From MNIST to Transformer series
In the third part of the From MNIST to Transformer series, Habr AI shows how to move from matrices to tensors, implement a Linear Layer in C

MIT Technology Review: 90% of engineering companies will increase AI investment, but without rushing
MIT Technology Review Insights found that 90% of product engineering leaders plan to increase AI investment, but prioritize verification, si

Selectel added high-end servers for model training and expanded its image catalog
Selectel summarized its February updates: it launched HGX B300 servers for training large models, added new images, brought L4 GPUs to the c

Dell and the U.S. Department of Energy build national AI infrastructure for science and government missions
Dell and the U.S. Department of Energy are launching a joint effort to build a national AI infrastructure, from supercomputers for science t

Palantir prepares support for other AI models after Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon
Palantir may move beyond Anthropic: amid the startup's dispute with the Pentagon, the company is preparing support for other large language

AWS showed how to fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron Speech for accurate ASR in niche scenarios
AWS outlined an end-to-end approach to fine-tuning the NVIDIA Nemotron speech model on Amazon EC2: with synthetic audio data, ASR can be ada

Humanoid: demand for humanoid robots is surging, deployments will begin as early as 2026
Humanoid’s CTO said demand for humanoid robots is “off the charts”: the company has already completed eight pilots and is preparing its firs

Amazon demonstrated natural-language search across large video archives with Nova
AWS described the architecture of scalable multimodal video search: Nova generates audio and image embeddings, OpenSearch indexes them, and

Cambricon turns annual profit for the first time amid China’s AI chip boom
Chinese AI chip developer Cambricon ended the year in profit for the first time as demand rose amid Nvidia restrictions and Beijing’s push f

DEMIURGOS adds a rules debugging mode for AI agents and support for 20+ tools
DEMIURGOS lets teams describe the stack, restrictions, and project standards once so Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other agents automati

Anthropic-Pentagon conflict unnerves the AI market: industry expects a chilling effect
After Anthropic's talks with the Pentagon broke down, part of the industry fears that a hardline government response will deter AI companies

Pentagon may use AI chatbots to prioritize targets in military strikes
The US military could use generative AI to rank target lists and recommend the order of strikes, but the final decision, an official said, s

Whisper and Gemma 3 linked with contrastive learning for low-cost speech input to LLMs
A developer showed how they linked Whisper and Gemma 3 through an MLP projector and contrastive learning: after a series of failed regulariz

Stanford introduced OpenJarvis — a local AI agent stack with memory and learning
Stanford introduced OpenJarvis — a platform for personal AI agents that run directly on-device, use memory and tools, and learn from local d

An open-source stack of 6 models and 9 agents showed how to build an AI team on a single server
Six open-source models and nine agents on a single GPU server form an autonomous AI team that designs, writes, tests, and deploys new agents

Singapore has invested more than S$1 billion in AI, but AI Singapore sees a shortage of people who can build it
Despite billion-dollar investments in AI, Singapore risks producing large numbers of certified users without training enough engineers and r

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gets Policy for AI agent access control
Amazon explained how the new Policy layer in Bedrock AgentCore checks every agent request to tools and data against Cedar rules, without rel

AWS explained how to fine-tune Amazon Nova through an LLM judge for complex enterprise tasks
AWS showed a reinforcement fine-tuning setup for Amazon Nova in which a separate LLM evaluates the model's responses, and in a contract revi

Legora reaches $5.6B valuation and intensifies rivalry with Harvey in AI for lawyers
Swedish startup Legora raised another $50 million, crossed $100 million ARR and closed in on Harvey, turning the AI-for-lawyers market into

Alphabet and Amazon show returns from AI while Meta lags in the investment race
A new round of quarterly reports showed that AI investments are already delivering results for Alphabet and Amazon, while Meta is stalling a

Gamma, Tome and SlidesAI: Which AI Services Actually Speed Up Presentation Creation
AI services for presentations handle structure, text and basic design, but only truly save time when the author provides a precise brief and

Pentagon and Anthropic dispute Claude amid plans to use AI for target selection
The US Department of Defense is considering the use of generative AI for target prioritization while also pressuring Anthropic to ease Claud

E.SUN Bank and IBM create an AI governance system for safe AI deployment at the bank
E.SUN Bank, together with IBM, is developing an AI governance framework for the bank: the goal is to establish rules, risk controls, and tra

Sber, Yandex, and red_mad_robot showed how AI is changing the developer's role
At a meeting involving Sber, Yandex, T-Technologies, and red_mad_robot, participants discussed AI PDLC: AI is already writing most of the co

Nvidia, Google and Anthropic: Nemotron, Firefox bugs and worrying signals for the AI market
Nvidia released the open Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Anthropic found dozens of flaws in Firefox, and Google and ByteDance found themselves at the

Microsoft launches Copilot Health — an AI service for unifying medical data and health analysis
Microsoft has opened the waitlist for Copilot Health, a protected section in Copilot where AI compiles data from wearables, medical records,

Amazon to pair giant Cerebras chips with Trainium to run AI models
Amazon will use chips from startup Cerebras alongside its own Trainium chips to run AI models more efficiently and increase the flexibility