April 2026
Elon Musk vows to rebuild xAI after a new wave of co-founder departures
Elon Musk said he will rebuild xAI after a string of departures from the company: staffing turbulence has intensified questions about the st
Claude Cowork and Chrome: 10 use cases for delegating repetitive browser work to an AI agent
Habr has published a practical breakdown of how Claude Cowork, paired with a Chrome extension, handles data lookup, form filling, price moni
Microsoft and NVIDIA call physical AI the next advantage for industry
MIT Technology Review describes a new stage of automation: physical AI helps factories not just cut costs, but grow amid labor shortages and
Anthropic explained how businesses can implement agentic systems without unnecessary complexity
Anthropic showed that businesses are better off starting not with autonomous agentic systems, but with simple scenarios: they are cheaper, m
In five days, Yoyo grew from 200 lines into an autonomous agent that writes code on its own
An experiment with the Yoyo agent showed that 200 lines of Rust were enough to start a self-acceleration loop: the bot reads its own code, w
ChatGPT and data centers: how AI growth is accelerating energy use and pressure on water
The growth of ChatGPT and other AI services is driving data-center construction, increasing demand for electricity and water, while the Quit
GLiNER 2 showed how compact encoders are catching up with LLMs in NER and classification
A new wave of zero-shot encoders led by GLiNER 2 shows that NER and classification tasks can be solved without heavy LLMs — faster, cheaper,
NVIDIA introduces NeMo Retriever — agentic search for complex enterprise data
NVIDIA showcased an agentic pipeline in NeMo Retriever: the system goes beyond semantic search, planning steps, refining queries, and has al
Ollama Cloud compared in a code review: DeepSeek v3.1 proved stronger than Qwen and GPT-OSS
The author tested three models in Ollama Cloud on real Python Pull Requests from a legacy project: DeepSeek v3.1 showed the best balance of
CodeSpeak by Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav shifts development from code to specifications
Andrey Breslav's team released the public alpha of CodeSpeak — a platform where a developer describes a system in English and LLM generate,
OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle Argue Over Stargate as Mega Data Center Project Stalls
Stargate, a project worth up to $500 billion conceived as OpenAI’s computing backbone, is slowing as the partners argue over structure, fund
AWS and vLLM integrated P-EAGLE to speed up large LLM inference by up to 1.69x
AWS showed how P-EAGLE in vLLM removes the bottleneck in speculative decoding, generates multiple tokens in a single pass, and delivers up t
Elon Musk reshapes xAI: layoffs, consultants from Tesla and SpaceX, and a bet on AI data centers
Musk has begun a tough restructuring of xAI: after an influx of money from Tesla and closer ties with SpaceX, outside consultants are joinin
Harry Tan released gstack — a workflow system for Claude Code with QA, review, and release
Harry Tan open-sourced gstack — a set of modes for Claude Code that separates planning, review, QA, and release into distinct commands and a
US drops plan to tie AI chip sales to mandatory data center construction
Washington did not back the idea of selling American accelerators only to countries and companies willing to build data centers in the US, p
Google radically updated Maps: Gemini answers questions, and navigation is now 3D
Google released the biggest Maps update in a decade: Gemini-powered Ask Maps understands complex everyday queries, and Immersive Navigation
Claude as Part of Thinking: Why Losing an AI Tool Disrupts Not Just Access, but Work Itself
For active users, losing a Claude account turned out to be more than a service disruption: along with access, context, accumulated work, and
Seldon Vault turned Asimov's psychohistory into a multi-agent AI forecasting service
Seldon Vault turns Asimov's idea of psychohistory into a real AI service: seven agents, a skeptic, and an arbiter build daily forecasts of g
The Lancet Psychiatry warns: AI chatbots may reinforce delusions in vulnerable people
A review in The Lancet Psychiatry found that AI chatbots can reinforce delusional ideas in people vulnerable to psychosis, so the authors ca
Elon Musk restructures xAI again: co-founder departures, layoffs, and Grok falling behind
xAI is going through another hard reset: key engineers and co-founders are leaving the company, Grok is trailing competitors in coding, and
Anthropic and ETH Zurich: a long CLAUDE.md worsens agent performance and raises costs
A study by ETH Zurich across 138 repositories found that long CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files often reduce coding-agent success rates while al
Gemini 3.1 Pro outperformed ChatGPT 5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 in a text generation test
An author-led comparison of three top models across four literary tasks found that Gemini 3.1 Pro handled genre, emotion and brevity better,
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor: Eight Levels of Agent Engineering Maturity
Habr AI broke down eight levels of agent engineering — from tab-complete and context engineering to background agents and autonomous teams t
Zhipu AI releases GLM-OCR, a compact 0.9-billion-parameter OCR model for documents
Zhipu AI and Tsinghua University introduced GLM-OCR, a 0.9-billion-parameter multimodal OCR model that parses complex documents, tables, and
LangChain released Deep Agents for multi-step AI agents with memory and isolation
LangChain released Deep Agents, a library for AI agents that need planning, long-term memory, file context, and subagent isolation in long-r
AMD RX580 ran an LLM locally: how to tame ROCm, Ollama, and get GPU inference
An engineer showed how to make an old AMD RX580 run an LLM reliably with ROCm and Ollama, breaking down false signs of GPU activity, hipMemG
Why Claude 4.6 Isn't Enough Without Context: The Main Blind Spot in LLM Development
Even a strong model like Claude 4.6 loses effectiveness without systematically gathered context: a knowledge base, links between services, a
AI forces universities to rethink term papers: the cheating problem predates ChatGPT
Dr. Nafisa Baba-Ahmed argues that AI did not create the crisis in university coursework, but merely scaled an old habit of outsourcing the t
Developer builds AI-powered news aggregator with MCP, DeepSeek, and Telegram bot
After the drone attack over Dubai, a developer built a multilingual news aggregator: 80+ sources, an MCP server for AI agents, an AI chat, a
BorisovAI tested MoE on an RTX 4090 and showed why perplexity breaks LLM evaluation
BorisovAI tested MoE with plug-in experts on a single RTX 4090 and found that an impressive perplexity score does not guarantee real quality
LLM experiment showed how a model’s “personality” emerges in latent space
An experiment with a modular LLM showed that a separate latent vector can store not only text style, but also stable behavioral traits resem
Nvidia hints at an optical chip that could reshape AI data centers ahead of GTC 2026
Ahead of its March 16, 2026 presentation, Nvidia raised expectations with a promise of “a chip that will shake the world,” and silicon photo
Why DeepMind's AGI advances do not answer the key question of machine consciousness
The author explains why growing computing power and DeepMind's AGI advances do not amount to the emergence of consciousness: intelligence ca
IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech — a compact multilingual speech model for edge AI
IBM introduced Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a lightweight model for speech recognition and translation designed for rapid deployment in enterprise
Job cuts at Atlassian revived the debate: should AI cut working hours, not headcount
After the layoffs at Atlassian, economists are again debating who should get the gains from AI: companies in the form of profits, or employe
OpenAI postponed the launch of erotic chats in ChatGPT over risks to teenagers
OpenAI has again delayed erotic chats in ChatGPT: the company was held back by weak age verification, the risk of teen access, and concerns
Habr AI on the future of work: how AI and robots could return society to a new antiquity
Habr AI argues that the combination of AI, robotics, and neural implants could do more than reshape the labor market — it could divide socie
Nvidia partner Hon Hai posts lower profit, deepening concerns over demand for AI servers
Hon Hai, one of Nvidia’s key partners in server hardware, reported a 2.4% drop in quarterly profit, and the market saw it as a possible sign
Google removes AI feature from Search that showed medical advice from random users
Google has shut down the What People Suggest feature in Search: the AI tool showed medical advice from ordinary people, and amid safety conc
Unity showed how to build voice NPCs with memory and world context
A step-by-step guide shows how to build voice NPCs in Unity with a local model, dialog memory, knowledge of the game world, and spoken respo
Harvard: AI is cutting junior hiring, and in three years that could affect the entire industry
Harvard reports a drop in junior hiring after AI adoption, while METR points to growing dependence of experienced developers on AI assistant
Moonshot AI presented Attention Residuals — an alternative to residual connections in transformers
Moonshot AI proposed Attention Residuals, a replacement for standard residual connections in transformers, where a layer itself selects usef
DeepSeek and GLM-5 beat Yandex in a test of 34 AI models for managers without VPN
The authors of a large test of management scenarios found that DeepSeek V3.2 and GLM-5, available in Russia without VPN, are markedly strong
Google released Gemini Embedding 2 for multimodal RAG with video, audio, and PDF
Google released Gemini Embedding 2, a model that embeds text, images, video, audio, and PDF into a single space and simplifies building mult
Bitrix24 listed eight common mistakes in developing MCP servers for LLMs
A Bitrix24 developer explained why MCP servers fail on authorization, call chains, poor tool descriptions, testing, security, and context ov
Prof. Dionne to Present VINPix — Nanophotonics and AI for Multiomics on a Chip
IEEE Spectrum invites readers to a webinar on the VINPix platform: nanophotonic chips combined with AI promise to accelerate multiomic analy
Why Yann LeCun's world model idea does not solve the main crisis in LLM development
After Yann LeCun's departure from Meta, his world model concept is once again being discussed as a path beyond LLMs, but critics argue that
Alibaba combines AI services into a new business unit to boost profit growth
Alibaba is creating a separate unit that will bring together the company's fragmented AI services and development efforts so it can turn tec
A Physical AI pipeline for SO-101 was assembled on top of ROS2 and LeRobot for 30,000 rubles
An open-source stack based on ROS2 and LeRobot makes it possible to build a full Physical AI pipeline on the low-cost SO-101: teleoperation,
Citrini Research: how AI could collapse the intelligence premium and shake up the economy
Citrini Research describes a scenario in which AI turns intellectual labor into a mass commodity, puts pressure on middle-class wages, and t
xAI hires bankers and credit experts to strengthen Grok in finance
xAI wants to train Grok in financial strategy with the help of bankers and private credit specialists, betting on a more professional and hi
Karakeep helps organize articles, links, and YouTube tabs with AI
Karakeep turns the chaos of articles, research, and YouTube tabs into a tidy archive: AI automatically adds tags, creates brief summaries, a
Intel warns: agentic AI has moved beyond its "childhood" stage and requires a new control model
Agentic AI is moving from chatbots to autonomous actions, and companies now need not broad policies but process-embedded guardrails, audit,
SimpleOne launched SimpleGen — an AI tool for development and deployment on the platform
SimpleOne introduced SimpleGen — an AI tool for generating solutions on its platform: developers only need to prepare a repository, access t
Google AI Ultra: how to turn a subscription into a pool of parallel agents and model consensus
Google AI Ultra is being proposed as the foundation for a multi-agent stack: run parallel Gemini workers, delegate routine tasks, and cross-
Musk lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft to proceed, though $134 billion figure deemed arbitrary
A judge questioned the damages estimate in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, at up to $134 billion, but did not end the disp
Meta to spend up to $27 billion on Nebius Group AI infrastructure over the next five years
Meta is prepared to spend up to $27 billion over five years for access to Nebius Group's AI infrastructure, showing that competition for com
Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI over nearly 100,000 articles
Britannica and Merriam-Webster accused OpenAI of using their materials to train ChatGPT without permission and of reproducing fragments of n
AI startup advisor Salil Darji listed the mistakes founders notice too late
AI startup mentor Salil Darji says founders are held back by spreading themselves too thin, a cult of the pitch deck, and chasing hype — whi
OpenAI could enter U.S. military systems against Iran — from target selection to drone defense
After the Pentagon deal, OpenAI technologies could appear in the conflict around Iran — from strike prioritization to counter-drone defense