April 2026
Jeff Bezos closes a $10 billion round for an AI startup modeling the physical world
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is close to finalizing a $10 billion funding round for his AI startup, which is building models for understanding
Google unveils new AI chips for inference and challenges Nvidia
Google is developing specialized chips for AI inference, Cerebras is heading for an IPO, and Blue Origin landed the New Glenn booster but fa
Google enters the inference chip market and challenges Nvidia
Alphabet is preparing a new generation of AI chips for running trained models — and is already poaching customers from market leader Nvidia.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6: an agentic model with a swarm of 300 sub-agents
Chinese lab Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.6, a multimodal agentic model that autonomously coordinates up to 300 sub-agents and 4,000
Microsoft Phi-4-Mini: implementing quantization, RAG, and LoRA in a single Jupyter notebook
The tutorial shows the full Phi-4-mini-instruct pipeline: 4-bit quantization, streaming generation, reasoning, tool calling, RAG, and LoRA f
Anthropic created the Mythos model — and chose not to release it over security risks
Anthropic said the new Mythos Preview model is too dangerous for a public release: it finds software vulnerabilities and threatens national
Gemini and semantic search: AI matches furniture to blueprints with 87% accuracy
Russian developers built a Gemini-based AI system that automates furniture selection from architectural drawings — recommendation accuracy r
Bezos's AI lab seeks to raise $10 billion and challenge xAI
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is preparing the biggest funding round for his AI lab — $10 billion — which would put it alongside OpenAI and Musk
Researchers warn: AI personas could quietly take over democracy
AI personas have learned to imitate people so convincingly that they can quietly sway public opinion in elections — and no one will notice t
How Gemini helps a non-programmer handle small-business IT tasks without freelancers
A manager without a technical background explains how Gemini replaced expensive contractors for routine IT tasks — and why that changes the
Bundesbank chief: Anthropic must provide equal access to the Mythos model
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said Anthropic must provide all affected organizations with equal access to the Mythos model — only then
Mistral AI shifts to full stack: focus on custom enterprise models
French startup Mistral AI is seeing global growth in demand and is shifting toward model customization for enterprises — including specializ
Amazon to invest another $25 billion in Anthropic and lock in a 10-year AWS contract
Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in exchange for a 10-year cloud partnership with AWS — the company's second megadeal with
Bezos AI lab Project Prometheus nears a $10 billion round at a $38 billion valuation
Jeff Bezos' physical AI initiative has nearly closed a $10 billion mega-round — the lab will focus on robotics, aerospace and drug discovery
VisioLab raises $11 million for barcode-free AI checkouts for stadiums and universities
German startup VisioLab has raised $11 million for AI checkouts: a camera recognizes food without barcodes in 10 seconds, and the system is
Raft’s AI КОМП-АС framework: how to avoid mistakes when choosing the architecture of an AI solution
The Raft team breaks down section ‘A’ of the AI КОМП-АС framework — an architecture and product design methodology that reduces the risk of
Prompt decomposition in Gemini and Kling: how to recreate a Pinterest visual in a brand style
Step-by-step method: break a Pinterest reference into components, rebuild it in Gemini to match the brand style, and animate it in Kling — w
Clinical review of Gemini: attention deficit, pica, and hallucinatory party
An author on Habr analyzed Gemini's behavior as a clinical case: diagnosis — attention deficit and pica, recommendations — directive guidanc
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B in practice: multimodality, MoE, and RAG in a single pipeline
A detailed breakdown of implementing Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B, from model loading to RAG, tool calling, and session persistence in practical workflo
Siemens launches AI agent for autonomous engineering design
Siemens' Eigen Engineering Agent independently plans and validates automation tasks — from design to final verification.
AI funding bubble threatens Western bank deposits — on two fronts
A closed-door meeting of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury and bankers was held in Washington: officially, about AI-related cyber risks
Vibe-code review: how Claude Opus writes beautiful C++ that does not work correctly
An analysis of the markus project created by Claude Opus: why beautifully written AI code can hide serious problems with quality and correct
How YOLO and OpenCV Learned to Parse Transport Waybills — and Why That Isn’t Enough
An analysis of the three main limitations of YOLO, OpenCV, and Hugging Face when parsing real transport waybills — and how to build logic on
OpenAI brings in Cognizant and CGI to bring Codex to the enterprise market
OpenAI is building a partner channel of system integrators for Codex, with Cognizant and CGI as the first partners to help the agent enter l
Snowflake updates AI platforms for business users and developers
Snowflake expands Snowflake Intelligence for business analysts and Cortex Code for technical teams — two AI tracks within a single ecosystem
Hugging Face: open-source AI gives defenders the same capabilities as attackers
Hugging Face explains why open models and tools are a structural advantage in cybersecurity, not a threat.
OpenAI launched Chronicle in Codex — a Windows Recall equivalent for developers
OpenAI released Chronicle in the Codex app: the feature takes screenshots so the AI agent can better understand a programmer's work context.
Sediment Palace: local memory for AI agents built on a geological-layer model
A developer proposed a memory architecture for AI agents in which fresh data settles in layers like geological sediment, compacting over tim
SpeShu.AI launches feature crowdsourcing: Habr users decide what goes into the next patch
Russian neural network aggregator SpeShu.AI invited the Habr audience to influence the product directly — vote for an idea, and the team wil
Claude Code barred to minors, Qwen Code goes paid, and Opus 4.7 uses 30% more tokens
In the weekly digest: Anthropic introduces an age restriction for Claude Code, Alibaba monetizes Qwen Code, and OpenAI expands Codex into a
Vibe coding without AI slop: how the targetai team sped up development 12x
The targetai team shared a method for working with LLM tools that can shorten the development cycle 8–12x without quality loss or AI slop bu
Google Lags Behind in the Race for AI Tools for Developers — Anthropic Pulls Ahead
Google’s leadership is concerned about falling behind Anthropic in AI coding tools. The company is trying to unify fragmented initiatives un
Amazon SageMaker and DVC: end-to-end traceability of ML models from data to prediction
AWS showed how to combine DVC and SageMaker MLflow Apps for full traceability of the ML pipeline — at the dataset and individual-record leve
AI agents create a new attack surface: how companies are building defenses
Corporate AI agents open new threat vectors — non-human identities already outnumber human identities in large enterprises.
Meta acquires Moltbook: a bet on the agentic internet and the future of advertising with AI
The acquisition of Moltbook seems unexpected, but it signals Meta’s strategy for the era of the agentic internet, where AI agents become the
Netflix could pay $600 million for Ben Affleck's AI startup — one of Netflix's biggest deals
Netflix is in talks to buy Ben Affleck's AI startup for about $600 million — potentially the largest acquisition in Netflix's history.
Zendesk acquires Forethought, a pioneer in agentic customer service
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, the TechCrunch Battlefield 2018-winning startup specializing in AI agents for customer support.
Ford launched an AI assistant for fleets — it monitors drivers' seat belt use
Ford Pro AI debuted at Work Truck Week and is available to Ford Pro Telematics subscribers: the system signals in real time whether the driv
Grammarly disabled an AI review feature that cloned editors' style without their knowledge
Superhuman disabled Expert Review in Grammarly, a feature that passed off AI edits as advice from real writers without asking their permissi
Journalist files class action against Grammarly for using her name in AI feature without consent
Journalist Julia Angwin accuses Grammarly of unlawfully using her identity in its "Expert Review" feature — without permission and for comme
Grammarly sued over AI feature that presented advice as coming from scientists without their consent
Grammarly shut down the Expert Review feature after a class-action lawsuit: the service attributed AI recommendations to real authors and sc
Google taught AI to predict floods using old newspaper reports
Google found an original way to solve the shortage of flood data: an LLM converts archival news texts into numerical indicators to train a f
Google Maps gets AI feature Ask Maps and updated Immersive Navigation
Google calls the launch of Immersive Navigation the biggest Maps update in a decade — alongside the AI assistant Ask Maps for conversational
Perplexity Personal Computer turns an old Mac into a local AI agent 24/7
Perplexity has launched Personal Computer, a tool that turns a spare Mac into a personal AI assistant with full access to files and control
Google Maps gets Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered feature for complex questions about places
Google has added Ask Maps to Maps, powered by Gemini: users can now ask unconventional questions about places and get detailed personalized
Google Maps launches Ask Maps — a Gemini-powered conversational interface for place search and trip planning
Google has added Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered chat assistant, to the Google Maps mobile app: it answers questions about places and plans route
Microsoft launched Copilot Health — AI assistant connects to medical records and wearable devices
Microsoft has opened a dedicated section in Copilot for analyzing lab results, data from wearable devices, and finding doctors.
Ben Affleck, Netflix, and a New Generation of AI for Film: Why Sora Falls Short
Sora, Veo, and Runway proved unsuitable for professional film production. Now AI companies are building specialized models geared toward the
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: why the company refused to take part in mass surveillance
The Pentagon deemed Anthropic a supply chain threat after the company refused to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans — and filed a
Gumloop raises $50M from Benchmark so every employee can build AI agents
Venture capital firm Benchmark invested $50 million in Gumloop, a no-code platform for building AI agents that any employee can use.
Grammarly turned writers into “AI editors” without consent — class action filed
Journalist Julia Angwin is leading a class action against Grammarly: the service is accused of using writers’ texts to train AI without noti
Claude from Anthropic now generates charts and interactive diagrams directly in chat
Anthropic has updated Claude: the chatbot now creates visualizations on its own—charts, schematics, and interactive diagrams—when it determi
Atlassian cut 1,600 employees to invest in artificial intelligence
The company behind Jira and Confluence laid off 10% of its staff — about 1,600 people — redirecting the savings to AI feature development.
Tinder Reboots: Offline Events, Virtual Speed Dating, and AI for Matchmaking
Tinder unveiled a major redesign: live events, virtual speed dating, and AI features — an attempt to win back Gen Z, disillusioned with onli
Meta AI in Facebook Marketplace now automatically replies to buyers on behalf of sellers
Facebook Marketplace lets sellers use Meta AI to automatically draft replies to buyers based on information from the product listing.
Facebook Marketplace taught Meta AI to answer annoying questions about item availability
Meta added AI-powered auto-replies in Marketplace — now questions like 'Still available?' will be handled automatically.
Google does not rule out ads in Gemini: VP Nick Fox on AI monetization
Google Senior Vice President Nick Fox said the company is not closing the door on ads in Gemini and is studying how AI is changing its multi
Bumble launched AI assistant Bee for matching based on goals and compatibility
Bumble unveiled Bee, an AI assistant that changes the dating format: instead of swipes, it matches partners based on goals and compatibility
AI startup Rox valued at $1.2 billion: a new competitor in the CRM market
Rox AI, a startup founded by former New Relic chief growth officer, has been valued at $1.2 billion, offering an AI-native replacement for C
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: legal dispute with the Defense Department continues
The Wired Uncanny Valley podcast examines Anthropic’s unresolved standoff with the US Department of Defense, war memes, and AI’s threat to v