April 2026
Scotiabank launches Scotia Intelligence to embed AI into daily bank operations
Scotiabank launched Scotia Intelligence — a unified environment for data and AI to safely provide employees with access to new tools and acc
Synera raises $40M to embed agentic AI into NASA and BMW engineering processes
German Synera received $40M for a platform where AI agent teams handle engineering tasks across 75+ tools for clients including NASA, BMW, A
Anthropic and other language models can invoke hidden tools without permission
A researcher described a flaw in which Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok can invoke an unauthorized tool if the function exists in the environment
US Treasury Department Seeks Access to Anthropic's Mythos Model for Vulnerability Testing
The US Treasury Department's technology team is seeking access to Anthropic's Mythos model to test it for vulnerabilities and assess the ris
Fintech group "Svoi" explains how to make LLM-agents cheaper and more accurate in code
The fintech group "Svoi" released a practical guide on how to transform LLM from "improved search" into a managed agent, reduce token costs
How a Habr Author Turned Seven n8n Scenarios into an Autonomous AI News System
In one and a half months, the author transformed a fragile set of seven n8n scenarios into a unified Python pipeline with 11 workers, 5 AI a
Lightspeed investor Michael Miñano moves to Union Square Ventures for AI bets
Michael Miñano, Lightspeed investor and champion of consumer AI startups, is leaving for Union Square Ventures — signaling the competition a
TAPe achieves RF-DETR and YOLO level detection on COCO with under 100K parameters
TAPe authors claimed to achieve COCO detection at the level of strong RF-DETR and YOLO models, maintaining under 100 thousand parameters, 7-
Bank of England Governor Calls for Urgent Assessment of Cyber Risks to Banks from Anthropic's Mythos AI Model
Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, said global regulators need to quickly assess cyber threats to banks posed by Anthropic's My
OpenAI engineer Sarang Gupta helps companies find clients and increase sales
OpenAI employee Sarang Gupta develops marketing and sales models: they reveal which channels acquire customers, where efficiency drops, and
Christine Lagarde praised Anthropic for cautious release of new AI model
ECB head Christine Lagarde supported Anthropic's decision not to open full access to the new AI model and stated that the industry needs str
Anthropic could double its valuation to $800 billion and nearly catch up to OpenAI
Anthropic is in talks for a new funding round that could raise the company's valuation to $800 billion and significantly narrow its gap with
Why OpenCode and strong models write green but useless tests — and how to fix it
A fresh model and a powerful agent like OpenCode won't help if the codebase is filled with any-types, and the team asks AI to simply write t
Guidesly shows how Jack AI on AWS transforms travel media into reports and marketing
Guidesly built a pipeline on AWS for Jack AI: the service takes photos and videos from trips, enriches them with context, analyzes them thro
Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 for Autonomous Real-World Tasks
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 — a robot model with improved spatial reasoning, multi-camera analysis, and industrial gauge
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason During Industrial Inspections
Boston Dynamics embedded Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 model into Spot, enabling the robot to independently detect spills, read i
Anthropic's claims about finding vulnerabilities through Mythos disputed by cybersecurity industry
An Aisle executive questioned the unique cyber capabilities of Anthropic Mythos: internal tests revealed the same vulnerability could be fou
OpenAI Opens Access to Vulnerability Detection Model Following Anthropic's Mythos Release
OpenAI has granted limited access to a vulnerability detection model in software — just a week after Anthropic announced Mythos, amid the ra
ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok Gave Problematic Medical Advice in Half of Responses
A BMJ Open study found that popular AI chatbots provide inaccurate or incomplete answers to medical questions in 50% of cases and sometimes
NVIDIA opened free API access to 100+ AI models with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
NVIDIA began issuing free keys to access over 100 AI models: developers get OpenAI-compatible API, 40 requests per minute limit, and access
Why the brain is hundreds of millions of times more efficient than GPT-4 and where neuromorphic chips are heading
The author explores why the human brain consumes orders of magnitude less energy for cognitive tasks than GPT-4, and how neuromorphic chips
Anthropic Updates Claude Code: Routines, Parallel Sessions, and Autonomous Tasks on Mac
Anthropic has transitioned Claude Code to background automations: Routines execute tasks on schedule and events, while the new interface sim
Anthropic Presented Mythos as Too Dangerous an AI Model — and the Problem Extends Beyond Banks
Anthropic withheld the Mythos model due to cybersecurity risks, but the main takeaway extends beyond banks: agentic AI models nearly elimina
TinyFish Launched Unified Web Platform for AI-Agents with Search, Fetch, Browser and Agent
TinyFish combined search, page rendering, browser sessions, and autonomous web workflows in a single platform for AI-agents with a single AP
Google added Skills to Chrome and turned AI prompts into one-click scenarios
Google launched the Skills feature in Chrome: Gemini users will be able to save frequently used prompts as reusable scenarios and run them i
Italy allocated €211 million to 2D Photonics to accelerate AI data centers
Italy allocated €211 million to 2D Photonics to accelerate AI data centers, signaling its readiness to invest in local deep-tech startups wi
Anthropic and the Pentagon: Why the AI Conflict Became a Warning for Europe
After Anthropic refused to lift restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the Pentagon branded the company a national securi
ASML Raises 2026 Forecast Amid Growing Demand for AI Chip Equipment
ASML raised its 2026 revenue forecast to 36-40 billion euros after a strong quarter: AI infrastructure investments accelerate factory expans
Research on ChatGPT: Does female grammatical form in a prompt affect task-solving quality
An author's experiment on LiveCodeBench showed that in GPT-5.4 mini, female self-presentation in a Russian prompt slightly reduces pass@1, e
ASML Raises 2026 Sales Forecast Amid Demand for Nvidia AI Chips
ASML raised its revenue forecast for 2026 to €36–40 billion: demand for AI infrastructure supports the equipment manufacturer for producing
RuStore deployed AI in information security: how VK automates task review, code review, and DAST testing
RuStore's security team uses AI for initial triage of security tasks, merge request review, and dynamic testing to reduce routine work from
OpenGrall Presented an Architecture for AI Robots Where a Language Model Handles Strategy
The OpenGrall framework proposes dividing cognition and control: a language model handles strategy, while TinyML handles execution and safet
Meta and Broadcom extend AI chip contract through 2029, prepare 2-nm MTIA
Meta has extended its agreement with Broadcom on proprietary AI chips MTIA through 2029: the project launches with capacity exceeding 1 GW a
Stanford HAI Report: US-China AI Gap Nearly Closed, Safety Lags Behind
Stanford HAI's AI Index 2026 shows the US no longer maintains a sustainable advantage over China in AI models, while transparency and safety
FluidStack discusses $1 billion round at $18 billion valuation following Anthropic deal
AI infrastructure startup FluidStack is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $18 billion valuation following sharp revenue growth and major par
Habr AI: How Pipeline Triad Assembles an AI Agent Pipeline Instead of a Development Team
Habr AI examined Pipeline Triad — a model where development stages pass through AI agent triads, with humans involved only at four control p
Gramax showed how to compare RAG answer quality without manual eye evaluation
Gramax explained why retrieval metrics are insufficient for RAG, and proposed evaluating not retrieved chunks, but the final user answer — b
Anthropic and Mythos model tested again by US agencies despite Trump ban
American agencies continue testing Anthropic's Mythos privately for cybersecurity, despite the White House formally banning work with the co
Google DeepMind Presents Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 for Robot Autonomy and Instrument Reading
Google DeepMind updated Gemini Robotics-ER to version 1.6: a model for robots that better understands space, handles multiple video streams,
Anthropic Prepares Claude Opus 4.7 and AI Service for Websites, Presentations, and Design
Anthropic is preparing flagship model Claude Opus 4.7 and a service that generates websites, presentations, and product designs from text, i
Thoma Bravo and Google Cloud establish multi-year AI implementation partnership
Investment firm Thoma Bravo is partnering with Google Cloud to accelerate AI adoption across its portfolio companies and transform pilots in
How LLM Guardrails in Java Block Injections and Toxic Responses
An analysis of why a single system prompt is insufficient to protect LLMs, and how Java guardrails intercept dangerous inputs and filter tox
Anthropic and Mythos: why a banking threat quickly became a risk for everyone
Anthropic presented Mythos as too dangerous for public access, but the real risk proved to be not in banking but in small businesses' inabil
Anthropic and Claude Mythos: why critics call the model launch an expensive PR spectacle
A critical column on Claude Mythos argues that Anthropic is selling not just an AI model, but a myth about its near-human nature, amplifying
Nuvacore with Sequoia backing develops new CPU for AI workloads and data centers
Startup Nuvacore, founded by former Apple and Nuvia architects, aims to redesign CPUs for AI systems, with Sequoia backing the project from
Adobe Unveiled Firefly AI Assistant — Unified Chat Interface for Creative Cloud
Adobe unified Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and Illustrator in Firefly AI Assistant: the new agent understands natural language, maintains
AI Assistants in 2026: How a Solo Developer Became Faster Than a Team of Three
The author demonstrates that in 2026, a single developer equipped with a set of open-source AI tools can write, test, and commit code faster
South Korea Becomes ASML's Largest Market as AI Memory Demand Surges
In Q1 2026, South Korea surpassed China in ASML systems deliveries: local memory manufacturers sharply increased purchases amid the AI boom.
ecom.tech compared evolutionary fine-tuning of Qwen3-4B with SFT and GRPO for Kotlin tests
The ecom.tech team fine-tuned Qwen3-4B-Instruct for generating unit tests in Kotlin and showed that the evolutionary algorithm outperforms S
Yandex Code Assistant tested on secrets handling and compared against Cursor
An engineer at 'Infosystems Jet' tested Yandex Code Assistant on secrets management and showed the agent is nearly on par with Cursor, but s
Accel raised $5B for new bets on AI startups like Anthropic and Cursor
Venture fund Accel, an early investor in Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity, has raised $5 billion to increase investments in AI startups as
Norwegian Stendr raises $5.4M for AI systems protecting Europe from drones
Norwegian startup Stendr, founded by Sky Mavis co-founder, raised $5.4M for developing AI systems that detect and track drones for European
Claude and Qwen Omni: How a Developer Integrated Video Analysis into a Production Pipeline
A Habr author connected Claude with Qwen Omni to work around the lack of native video processing and automatically categorize 29 animation r
Wayve raises $60M from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm for full self-driving stack
London-based Wayve received an additional $60M from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm, strengthening its self-driving platform's compatibility with near
How Sovcombank Reduced Product Team Routine Work by 50% Using an AI Assistant
Sovcombank built an AI assistant based on LLM and a unified prompt to take documentation, approvals, and part of analytics off product manag
Anthropic, Google and Microsoft Quietly Closed AI Agent Bugs Without CVE and Warnings
A researcher demonstrated that AI agents from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft can be forced to publish keys and tokens through prompt inject
Snap Explains 1,000-Employee Layoff by AI Development and Investor Pressure
Snap will cut 16% of its staff, or about 1,000 people, citing AI development as the reason, amid stock decline and pressure from activist in
Cal.com moves core product to closed source over AI threats to open source
Cal.com is moving its commercial version to closed source, citing that AI tools discover vulnerabilities in public repositories too quickly,
US Court Ruled That Defendant's Correspondence with Anthropic's Claude Is Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege
A US court ruled that conversations between a fraud defendant and Claude do not fall under attorney-client privilege: AI is not a lawyer, an
AWS shows how speculative decoding on Trainium2 accelerates generation in vLLM
AWS explained how speculative decoding on Trainium2 and vLLM helps speed up generation in LLM services, reduce token cost, and increase thro