April 2026

Who's Behind Claude: How Former OpenAI Employees Built Anthropic's Team
Anthropic grew out of a team of former OpenAI employees, and Claude's success is driven not only by Dario and Daniela Amodei, but also by re

ChatGPT Helped Design a Controller for a 32-Juice Vending Machine
The author on Habr demonstrated a conversation with ChatGPT where the model clarifies requirements and builds a controller architecture for

"First Form" Implemented MCP to Configure BPM Processes via AI Agent
Russian BPM platform "First Form" implemented support for Model Context Protocol: now categories, forms, and business processes can be confi

Anthropic reveals in largest AI survey what people actually expect from it
Anthropic conducted 80,508 interviews in 159 countries and found: people expect from AI not just productivity, but above all time, access to

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Accelerate AI Model Race, but the Market Is Already Tired of the Noise
In February 2026, leading AI labs released dozens of models, but the real story isn't record-breaking benchmarks—it's falling prices, growin

Goldman Sachs accelerates AI agent deployment and transforms developer work
Marco Ardenti from Goldman Sachs described how the bank is transitioning from internal AI tools to agentic platforms, reshaping engineer wor

OpenAI shut down Sora due to resource shortage, breaking major Disney deal
WSJ revealed that OpenAI halted Sora support not due to new strategy, but due to computing power deficit: the service cost up to $1 million

Goldman Sachs transitions to a new phase of artificial intelligence: Marco Ardenti on agents
Goldman Sachs discusses a new stage of AI implementation: after internal tools, the bank evaluates agent platforms and their real value for

Starcloud raises $170M at $1.1B valuation for orbital data centers
Startup Starcloud raised $170M to build orbital data centers: the company already operates Nvidia H100 in orbit, and its next goal is price-

How AI Tools for Forex Are Tested for Accuracy and Why Backtests Are Not Enough
AI services for the forex market often shine in backtests, but in live trading, everything is decided by metrics, data quality, execution de

JPMorgan starts factoring ChatGPT and Claude usage into engineer evaluations
JPMorgan is shifting AI-tool usage from optional to standard practice: roughly 65,000 engineers are expected to use them regularly, and mana

Forterro CEO calls fears around AI in software industry exaggerated
Forterro CEO Dean Forbes believes that fears around AI in development and corporate software are overblown, and for industrial vendors this

OpenAI hasn't yet turned ChatGPT into a new App Store: developers complain
Six months after launching mini-apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI already has hundreds of integrations, but developers complain about weak functionali

Glia Wins AI Excellence Awards for Safe AI Implementation in Banking
Glia won the AI Excellence Awards 2026 in the banking services category: the jury recognized its approach to practical and more secure AI us

Biren Technology More Than Tripled Revenue Amid China's AI Chip Demand
Biren Technology more than tripled annual revenue driven by surging demand for AI chips in China, where companies are increasingly building

MIT Taught AI to Find Atomic Defects in Materials Without Destroying Samples
MIT scientists created an AI model that finds up to six atomic defects simultaneously from neutron scattering data and measures their concen

Mistral raises $830M for data center with Nvidia chips, intensifies AI race in Europe
French Mistral AI has secured $830M in debt financing for a data center near Paris to house Nvidia chips and accelerate European AI infrastr

Bank of Russia Seeks Run:ai Alternative, Prepares Neural Networks for Industrial Scale
Bank of Russia has begun searching for a domestic platform to manage GPU clusters at the level of Run:ai — this may signal a shift by the re

AWS showed how to search for solar flares in SageMaker AI using ESA STIX instrument data
AWS published a breakdown showing how to train and deploy an LSTM model in SageMaker AI for detecting solar flares using ESA STIX instrument

Rebellions raises $400M pre-IPO at $2.34B valuation, eyes US market
South Korean Rebellions closed a pre-IPO round for $400M, bringing total fundraising in six months to $650M, and now targets US clients at t

Resilience: AI Accelerated Cyberattacks, Response Window for Defenders Narrowed to Minutes
Reports from Resilience, IBM, and ReliaQuest show: generative AI hasn't invented new attack types, but has dramatically accelerated phishing

Why Neural Networks Fail to Predict Moscow Exchange Markets—and Where ML Actually Helps Traders
Analysis of ML in trading reveals why neural networks struggle with direct price forecasting, yet help identify market regimes, filter trade

Habr AI: Self-Organizing LLM Agents Outperformed Hierarchical Systems by 14%
An experiment on 25,000 tasks showed that LLM agents perform better without imposed roles: self-organization, specialization choice, and the

Habr AI Author Proposes Deterministic AI on MacBook Air Over GPU Race
A GPU race manifesto has appeared on Habr: the author argues that a deterministic AI kernel in Rust with O(1) logic can run locally on MacBo

AI agents reshape the development cycle: where Scrum contracts, where humans remain essential
AI agents do accelerate development, but unevenly: in new projects, control shifts to observability; in legacy code, validation becomes more

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni — Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, and Video
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5-Omni — a native omnimodal model that understands text, images, audio, and video in a single architecture and ca

Microsoft to invest over $1 billion in Thailand's cloud, data centers, and AI infrastructure
Microsoft announced investments exceeding $1 billion in Thailand for 2026–2028: the funds will go toward data centers, cybersecurity, sovere

FSBio Describes Metabolic AI Runtime — AI Architecture with "Homeostasis" Instead of Empathic Prompts
FSBio Claims That True Machine Empathy Is Impossible in Standard Transformer Models, Proposing Metabolic AI Runtime with Internal State, Mem

Equinix to invest 7.5 billion rand in new data centers in South Africa amid AI demand growth
Equinix is preparing to expand data centers in South Africa with a 7.5 billion rand investment, betting on rapid growth in local demand for

OpenAI at Potential IPO: $850bn Valuation Now Demands Profit, Not Just Growth
OpenAI, valued at $850bn, approaches a potential IPO amid massive data-center and chip spending. The market no longer wants growth promises—

Lansoft names AI technologies that will reach production in 2026
In Lansoft's analysis, optimized transformers are named as the main candidates for production in 2026, while quantum ML and mass-market BCI

AiConf 2026 shifts format: interactive sessions, networking, and hands-on work replace lectures
AiConf 2026 moves away from traditional AI conference format, pivoting toward interactive sessions, collaborative work, and networking so pa

Microsoft taught Copilot Researcher to cross-check GPT and Claude answers in a single process
Microsoft added a Critique mode to Copilot Researcher, where GPT prepares the answer and Claude verifies it for accuracy, while simultaneous

How ecom.tech sees the union of AI, analytics, and 1C: what already works and where the risks lie
ecom.tech demonstrated how AI is integrating into the 1C ecosystem: from semantic search and code review to video support bots, but without

MIT Technology Review: Why Standard AI Tests No Longer Show Real-World Value
MIT Technology Review explores why high AI test scores often don't match real-world performance in hospitals, companies, and NGOs, and propo

Zhipu Increases Losses by 60% Amid Fierce Competition in China's AI Market
Zhipu reported a 60% increase in net losses for 2025, demonstrating how costly the race for models, customers, and computing resources has b

Raft Analyzed Where MCP and Thin MCP Add Latency to AI Agents
Raft compared five architecture options for AI agents and showed that the main cause of delays is often not Python or HTTP, but the number o

Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code Source Code via npm Source Map
Internal Claude Code source code was exposed through .map files in an npm package, revealing a multi-agent mode, memory 'dreams' system, hid

DeepSeek V4 Launches With Focus on Price and Everyday Tasks: Review and First Tests
DeepSeek V4 is positioned as an affordable alternative to leading chatbots: early reviews praise its competitive pricing, reliable performan

Google and Meta Lose Leading AI Researchers as New Startups Rapidly Raise Billions
Former researchers from Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are launching AI startups and securing hundreds of millions or even bil

OpenAI Released Privacy Filter: Open Model for Removing Personal Data
OpenAI published Privacy Filter — an open-source model for automatic detection and replacement of personal data, working directly in the bro

US FDA to Accelerate Drug Trials With AI and Real-Time Data
The US regulator wants to see drug safety and efficacy signals directly during clinical trials to eliminate months of bureaucratic delay and

AI Rally in Asia Creates New Winners Deep in the Chip Supply Chain
The AI investment boom in Asia extends beyond tier-one chipmakers to the entire tier-two supplier ecosystem—from CoWoS substrates to cooling

AWS Launches OpenAI Models After Microsoft Abandons Azure Exclusivity
AWS has opened access to OpenAI models through Bedrock immediately after Microsoft removed the Azure exclusivity—now the key question is whe

Goldman Sachs disabled access to Anthropic's Claude for employees in Hong Kong
Goldman Sachs employees in Hong Kong lost access to Anthropic's Claude: the bank restricted use of the code development tool and has not yet

Google Permits Pentagon to Use Its AI Systems in Secret Military Tasks
Google has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense and allowed the use of its AI systems in classified military projects — ami

EVRAZ Implements Neural Network for Steel Heating and Gas Consumption Reduction in Rolling Mill
EVRAZ deployed a recommendation system with digital twins of furnaces in NTMK hot rolling: it suggests heating modes for blanks and helps re

Mayo Clinic: AI Learned to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Clinical Diagnosis
Mayo Clinic's REDMOD system detects signs of pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before diagnosis and significantly

EU and European Parliament fail to agree on AI Act amendments after 12 hours of negotiations
EU and European Parliament fail to agree on AI Act amendments: the key dispute centers on whether to exempt high-risk AI systems embedded in

OpenAI and Promptflow: How to Build an LLM Pipeline with Tracing and Quality Evaluation
The guide shows how to build an LLM pipeline in Google Colab using Promptflow, Prompty, and OpenAI with secure key configuration, run tracin

Turnitin and OpenAI Are Losing: Why AI Detectors Can No Longer Distinguish Humans From Models
Language models have learned to mimic human style so well that AI detectors work almost like a coin flip: they make mistakes, catch the inno

MIT Accelerates Private AI Training on Ordinary Devices for Medicine and Finance
MIT researchers proposed a method to accelerate federated learning on smartphones, sensors, and smartwatches while keeping data on-device an

OpenAI and LinkedIn: Why Prompt Writing Has Become Critical for Career
OpenAI, Microsoft, and LinkedIn reveal one trend: the ability to write precise prompts is becoming a work skill, and vague requests now harm

Meta FAIR Releases NeuralSet — Python Package for Connecting Neural Data and AI Models
Meta FAIR opened NeuralSet — a Python framework that combines fMRI, M/EEG, spikes, and Hugging Face embeddings into a single PyTorch pipelin

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5: agentic model stronger than GPT-5.4, but API pricing doubled
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 as a model for real-world work and AI agents: it handles multi-step tasks better, but API pricing is twice as high

Sber Develops GigaChain Without Forking LangChain, Betting on a Compatibility Package
Sber explained how it develops GigaChain around GigaChat: the team rejected a heavy LangChain fork, built a compatibility package, and is cr

General Motors to Replace Google Assistant with Gemini in 4 Million US Vehicles
General Motors has begun an OTA update for approximately 4 million vehicles from 2022 onwards in the US: Google Gemini will replace Google A

Timeweb Cloud explains how edge detection filters work: from Roberts to Canny detector
Timeweb Cloud released a detailed guide on edge detection in images: it covers derivatives, Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel, Laplacian, Canny operat

Solaria raises €300M to power AI data centers with solar and batteries
Spanish Solaria raised €300M for data center sites with solar generation and batteries, betting on grid capacity shortage in Europe amid AI

Cognizant buys Astreya for $600M to strengthen enterprise AI infrastructure
Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya for $600M to fill a critical gap in its AI strategy—adding the data centers, networks, and infrastru